Why there is no such thing as job security in the 21st Century.

Sometimes I wish that I was a pizza delivery boy who fell into a cryogenic chamber and woke up in the year 3000 where robots walk amongst us guzzling beer and chips are implanted into our palms with a pre-determined career path.

I wish life was as simple as a cartoon, but unfortunately it is not. People always talk about the great innovation happening in America right now. What they seem to miss is the great misplacement of American youth who have no sense of job security anymore. Generation X, Y, Z, millennials and so forth. My parents generation were the last ones to have any semblance of security. They aren’t the so called “golden generation” but they rode the tail wave of it and it’s hard to explain to them why we constantly move from job to job every 5-6 years.

We have all become disposable parts and no matter what great talent we posses or keen insight we may have corporate America will just use us; then spit us out onto the side walk. Heck, I feel that the crazy man at the local McDonalds yelling out racist slurs has a better shot of surviving this great American chess game.

We do have one big advantage though. We posses the power of innovation, the power of using the web to create new business and make real measurable noise against established ways of doing traditional business. I do not want this post to come off as the doom and gloom of humanity because that is not the intention. I wanted to point out my sad realization that trying to find a job with some form of security is near to impossible. Quite frankly though in a weird twisted way I find it exciting. Why spend 30 years at some place, get a gold watch (if you’re lucky) and never really experience the true thrill of the unkown.