The Future Of Work ‘Groundhog Day’ Style
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If you could combine “Back to School” (1986), the late Rodney Dangerfield’s popular comedy, with Bill Murray’s cult classic, “Groundhog Day” (1993), you’ll know virtually everything you need to know about the world of work in the 21st century.
In short: Work and learning will become analogous. The longer you work, the more you’ll have to learn. Nothing stands still any more. What’s “cutting-edge” today may be obsolete tomorrow.
To succeed, you’ll need to view education as never-ending. As soon as you think you’ve finished, it will be time to start all over again, and—with apologies to Groundhog Day’s creator, Danny Rubin—again … and again … and again. It will give powerful new meaning to the term “lifetime learning.” It’s already happening.
You may even be mid-career, or older, like Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Melon, the millionaire men’s store-owner who enrolls in college to motivate his floundering son. Your motivation will be different: You’ll go back to school to keep up, to match the pace of change, to advance in your career, or, perhaps, just to hang on.