Life by Design

Forget Job Security - Take ownership and design a better life The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember:  Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! — Earl Nightingale For better or worse, the days of having a steady income at a 9–5 job for decades are dying. Entrepreneurs and freelancers understand this more than anyone. Creating your own career naturally leads to defining your own day to day activities and creating a workable, scalable plan for your retirement years. Because those later years depend so heavily on the financial decisions you make now, your career choices carry a heavy weight. Richie Norton recommends you ponder over these questions and self-reflect to change how you get paid in life. — When do you get up in the morning? Why? — When do you come home? Why? — If you had a different job…you...

Job Security Is Disappearing -- What Does It Mean For You? When I was a kid, the adults around me would get a job and keep the job for ten or twenty years. It was very unusual for someone to change jobs. Then corporations started shedding layers of management. Jobs started to move offshore, and outsourcing became popular. When I entered the working world it was still common to keep the same job for decades, but even when you didn't hold a job that long you could expect to stay employed for three to five years. Things kept changing. More and more people would take a job with the hope and expectation of staying in the job for awhile, but then somebody in a conference room many time zones away would make a decision and the job would disappear. It became commonplace to take a job, learn the job and then have the rug pulled out from under you. Now, we never know how long a new job is going to last. These days it is hard to find a working person who hasn't been ...