Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Place or No Place?

Published: August 8, 2007, 4:40 pm

Tags: job career, career change, job change, feature

This is the fourth column in our series of seven that look at the macro trends to consider when making a midlife career change. In the first three, which can be found by clicking on the column titles below, we looked at the Flow to Global, the Flow to Individual and Disintermediation. This column looks at the choice between Place or No Place. Until the last quarter century, one pretty much worked where one lived. In the Agricultural Age this was absolute. One lived near the fields that needed to be farmed or to serve those that did so. In the Industrial Age, the great migration of people from rural to urban areas occurred. This of course was to support the growth of production and factories that defined this Age. The place of work changed. The products of both of these ages were physical, and needed physical tending and needed transport, which gave rise to highly developed transportation distribution systems. Often, this urban centralization shaped and located entire industries. The

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