Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X?

Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X

"I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over," a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times:If you entered media or image-making in the '90s magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV there's a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That's because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shuttin…

Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X?

THE GEN-X CAREER MELTDOWN - The New York Times

In “Generation X,” the 1991 novel that defined the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s, Douglas Coupland chronicled a group of young adults who learn to reconcile themselves to “diminishing expectations of material wealth.” Lessness, Mr. Coupland called this philosophy. have a shoot,” Ms. McKinley said. “Now, you may use influencers who have no advertising background.” “The cruel irony is, the thing I perceived as the sellout move is in free-…