{"id":688,"date":"2007-12-17T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/career-trends\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T13:50:34","slug":"career-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/career-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/\">Penelope Trunk<\/a> posts this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2007\/12\/12\/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it\/\">piece<\/a> on <em>The End of Work As We Know It<\/em>.&nbsp; It reveals much on future trends in the work place.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve written and many of you have heard of the changing demographic that is the American work scene.&nbsp; Penelope gives us some very futuristic thoughts on how it will all play out.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Do you think people (workers and senior management) are preparing for what might occur in the next 5 years?&nbsp; Judging by the way many manage their health and money, the answer would be &quot;no preparation in progress.&quot;&nbsp; Not to mention, the spell of fear and greed that many organizations are currently under.<\/p>\n<p>A changed environment for work would be a good thing.&nbsp; But a changed work place without changed people would be disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips on how to be ready for a new work environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know thy self well.&nbsp; In other words, take an inventory of what you have to offer, write it down and act on it. <\/li>\n<li>Embrace change, because it is a sign of your learning. <\/li>\n<li>Distrust comfort (specifically mental).&nbsp; Comfort is the place where die and don&#8217;t get buried. <\/li>\n<li>Deal with your insecurities.&nbsp; This might be your greatest challenge.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s face it, dealing with our baggage can be painful.&nbsp; Just the same, deal with your insecurities. <\/li>\n<li>Surround yourself with people who want to see you win.&nbsp; Let other people hang around the critics and nay-sayers. <\/li>\n<li>Learn the art of vision (your preferable future).&nbsp; Failure in this area will leave you vulnerable to someone else&#8217;s dogma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penelope Trunk posts this piece on The End of Work As We Know It.&nbsp; It reveals much on future trends in the work place.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve written and many of you have heard of the changing demographic that is the American work scene.&nbsp; Penelope gives us some very futuristic thoughts on how it will all play&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,123,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-2","category-leadership-development","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}