Kathleen Parker's recent column in the Washington Post was right on point for me and other college graduates. She wrote:
Pink Slips du Jour
NEW YORK -- At Sarabeth's restaurant on Central Park two young old friends are catching up and comparing notes over breakfast.Anyone seated nearby quickly learns the story. They met in graduate school; both hold MBAs. Both recently joined the swelling ranks of America's unemployed.
Their shared tales, if once unthinkable, are becoming increasingly familiar. First, blue-collar jobs disappeared. Now white collars are fading. The young and briefly affluent, accustomed to earning more than $75,000, suddenly have time on their hands, the latest victims of the economic crunch.
Now what?
And she continues here.
Since I was laid off from Texas Instruments in 1995, I have gone from one gig to another. The longest was for six years and the shortest was three months. But that is the nature of work in the late 20th and early 21st century. Getting that real job with benefits is something that happens less and less for more and more folks.
When did the temp to hire job work itself into your career pattern? Is your career becoming more the temp, contractor, free-lancer or 'Gigonomics' employee? With Web 2.0+ you can stay wired while between gigs, check out 'Pink Slips are the New Black' website or the 'Pink Slip Party in NYC' video on youtube.
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