It is important to realize that world views between different generations are different. This is a cause for endless confusion when discussing something like retirement or how a career would take shape.
If we start with work-life, different generations WILL see things differently. This is why you should take career advice from your parents generation with a grain of salt. It is why your values, which likely came from your grandparents generation, will not be an accurate reflection of the reality YOU live in. Because the world is ever changing. It is a dynamic system.
For Generation X there hasn’t been a single traditional career track like there was for our parents and grandparents. Most of us will not stay with one company all our life but jump around for more than a dozen different positions and maybe even hold several different careers. Sure, there has been a “career track” but not so much in the sense that working hard would automatically be promoted as the company was expanding. If we wanted a career track we need to create….
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