What a gift. The television series "Mad Men" is giving us a peek into what we might have encountered in the social and legal revolution of the counterculture. Many of us started out buttoned-down rule-obeyers. Then we broke open or were broken open to choice. That included everything from our values or how we saw the world to if we wanted to try to work where we hadn't been able to before such as corporate America.
At Sterling Cooper, a person of color has become a secretary and a Jew has applied for a job as a copywriter. That represents a paradigm shift for both them and for the established order. The takeaway from that experience might have been that we were the first generation of Americans who were able to become flexible. The advantage of that is we have the option of leveraging that capacity for change into our work lives.
Since 2003 when my business derailed [Download Geezerguts] I have gone through several career transitions. Actually, the old notion of career path has mutated into a mix and match system of just about every kind of way to bring home the bacon. Somewhere along the line I surrendered the conventional ways of defining and measuring success. If I can pay my bills and maintain inner peace most of the time, I am doing just fine. At least in my book and in these days that's all that matters.
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