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more working for the same company for fifty years. Freelance
work is becoming more and more prominent. On-line you can
find work or someone to do a job. The world sure is changing,
and if you look at job employment you will see what I mean.
Let's just go back to our grandparent's generation, even though
I'm sure if we went back further we would see very different
structures of work in the tribal periods of our history. Our
grandparents usually found a skill, and then used that one
skill to work for their whole career. An example is my grandfather
who was a salesman for the same suit company for 44 years.
There
is nothing wrong with this. His job was secure; he knew there
would be a superannuating fund when he retired, and that there
would always be food on the table for his family. These days
in the 21st century things have changed, and they are still
changing rapidly as we speak. Nowadays it isn't strange for
a person to have around five completely different career paths
in their lifetime. You might think that job security is much
lower,
but there are new types of jobs emerging everyday
with the advent of modern technology. Older people can go
back to schools and be educated in totally new areas that
are greatly desired in society. One of the greatest changes
in recent times is the fact that a lot of people are now working
for themselves as freelancers from home. Society is still
getting all the necessary work done, but the structures in
which individuals pursue their dreams and goals in their areas
of interest have changed completely.
If you are working at home for your own business,
you sure don't have the old hierarchy of bosses watching over
your every move, judging your worth, and threatening you with
dismissal. People are now self-motivated as they know that
if they don't get out there and share their skills and attributes
with society, they simply might be forgotten.
There is a new way of acquiring work these days that is so
very different than the days of perusing the job-ads in the
newspaper or going door-to-door asking for work. Surprise,
surprise, its on the Internet! There are now on-line marketplaces
for both employers to offer work and for potential freelance
employees to show their portfolios. There are many, but an
excellent example of one of these sites is www.guru.com. On
Guru.com once you have registered your portfolio for free,
you can then bid for jobs that prospective employers have
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