You have a choice: pursue your dreams or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
Jay Samit – Entrepreneur
Get back to work. This is what COVID unemployed workers want to hear. The damage is the COVID has made the Future of Work episodic for today’s graduates and for many workers. What does episodic mean? TV programs are episodic. A TV series has individual programs or episodes, each of which is a story with beginning, middle, and end. The episodes fill in the narrative arc of the overall show.
This is similar to an episodic career where you move from opportunity-to-opportunity, project-to-project, and work-to-work until you find your true north. She offers three factors for a successful episodic career: 1. Self-knowledge; 2. Understanding the job market; and 3. Emotional resilience. In other words, you need be smart and roll with the punches.
Farai Chedeya in Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption believes:
“Given today’s pervasive anxiety, people have to make analytical decisions not just based on their paycheck and social status, but integrating their life and work and all the things that make them happy.”[i]
Work Lesson Earned: The author predicts two models for work. The hopscotch career where a VUCAN has a series of work episodes with a consistent theme or work that is unrelated and inconsistent. The second model of work is the slash career where VUCANs have simultaneous micro-careers or different side-hustles.[ii]
More work models will emerge. Write to us if you know of any at: Greg@800Compete.com
[i] ‘The Episodic Career: The New Key To Success At Work’, Forbes, March 4, 2016.
[ii] ‘The Episodic Career: The New Key To Success At Work’, Forbes, March 4, 2016.