When You Can't Worship at the Altar of Work, Not Anymore

Post-WWII, economic growth in America took off. There was so much professional opportunity. 

The old class system, a carry-over from Mother England, crashed. Get your ticket punched at college, or better yet, in the MBA program, and you could be middle class or better. 

No fool, sophisticated you got it to worship at the altar of work. Management experts like Peter Drucker and personal branding gurus like Tom Peters became the high priests. Along the way great minds such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens made belief in traditional religion seem foolish. 

What a wonderful ride away from limitations of birth, geographic location or gender.

That was then, a more stable time. Now The New York Times documents:

"People are no longer leaving Christianity; other major religions are growing. Almost all Americans — 92 percent of adults, both inside and outside of religion — say they hold some form of spiritual belief, in a god, human souls or spirits, an afterlife or something 'beyond the natural world.'” 

This is bound to accelerate as career platforms collapse because of cost-efficiency, knowledge becoming a commodity, creativity no longer so in-demand and what generative AI is manifesting it can accomplish. 

Jumping through hoops to become part of once-almost-sacred institutions such as elite law firms Paul Weiss and Latham, Ivies like Harvard and Columbia and powerful government agencies no longer guarantees much. Not meaning. Not employment security. Not respect on Main Street. Maybe not even feeling good about yourself. 

And career guidance delivered this Monday morning could be out-of-date by the afternoon. I used to advise the unretired, plagued with euphoric recall of what work used to give them, about the abundant income opportunities out there. Yes, just let's put together a functional resume. No longer. There are fewer of them and those still around are being swooped up by unemployed/underemployed Generation Z.

In the new economy (at least for the 99%) of scarcity and uncertainty clients for tarot readings tell me they feel "lost." Going or already gone is certainty. In the tarot that's symbolized by the Eight of Cups or the Walking Away card.

That opens the door to mysticism. That's the force field of ambiguity. And that's a whole new way to figure things out and to grab back onto hope. 

Thriving in difficult times starts from the inside.

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