Origins of the modern career

Before you read this email, I’d love for you to spend a few minutes with Cal Newport in his blog post, “Ancient Complications to Modern Career Advice.”

It goes beautifully with the question we’d like to answer: why do we believe that career change is hard, and why do we almost never hear the opposite, that career change is easy?

Cal Newport’s post had me asking questions about careers in general, and it led me to a chapter of a textbook on the origins of the modern career. (I might be buying this textbook - wow, I forgot how expensive they can be!)

While I’m trying not to make any judgments right out the gate, I do have a few ideas floating around as to why the assumption exists that career change is hard.

1. Career change is expensive - both to the employer and to the employee.

2. Career change is taxing - mentally, emotionally, and energetically.

If you have any ideas floating around yourself, please hit reply and share them with me.

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