11 years ago
7
The great middle-class identity crisis - A well written article.
I once had dinner in San Francisco with a group of independent bookshop owners. How, I asked them, do people end up running their own bookshops? Oh, they said, there was a set route, pretty much the equivalent of taking holy orders. It went like
Continue Reading
http://www.ft.com
Join the Discussion
[This comment was removed]
Really facinating, and thoroughly depressing article. Great share,
And well written.
Intersting! Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately it's hard to do what you really, truly love for a living. Generations ago people tended to choose a career and stick it out until retirement. Nowadays people are losing their jobs more frequently and as a result go for whatever job/career they can get at the moment and slowly transition into something else, and the cycle continues. There are no guarantees in this economy both as an employee and an employer.