Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
“Long gone are the days of working for the firm and retiring with a watch as a parting gift,” says Diana MacKay. “The world is careening forward at breakneck speed.” She continues, “Sometimes we are lucky enough to be holding the harness firmly and riding along – even steering things. But more likely, we’re hanging on.”
In the 1970s, Alvin Toffler and Adelaide Farrel wrote “Future Shock,” a book that stated there is “too much change in too short a period of time” and that rate of change would accelerate. “Accelerate, it has,” says MacKay. “Informaiton overload, social media, and a sense of instability due to rapid change has left young people feeling disconnected and disoriented, especially when it comes to their careers.”
A professional antidote to the speed of change may be to avoid specialization and embrace a generalist approach. “Specialists remain essential, but generalists are vital translators, interpreters, and connectors in times of turbulence. And being a generalist can be a lot of fun too. As we collectively plow forward, this may be the norm for a lot of young people moving through an unpredictable future.”
We invited Diana MacKay to join us for a conversation about navigating wild career swings, and how that diversity of experience enables valuable insights that organizations can also embrace and leverage change and uncertainty.
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“Long gone are the days of working for the firm and retiring with a watch as a parting gift,” says Diana MacKay. “The world is careening forward at breakneck speed.” She continues, “Sometimes we are lucky enough to be holding the harness firmly and riding along – even steering things. But more likely, we’re hanging on.”
In the 1970s, Alvin Toffler and Adelaide Farrel wrote “Future Shock,” a book that stated there is “too much change in too short a period of time” and that rate of change would accelerate. “Accelerate, it has,” says MacKay. “Informaiton overload, social media, and a sense of instability due to rapid change has left young people feeling disconnected and disoriented, especially when it comes to their careers.”
A professional antidote to the speed of change may be to avoid specialization and embrace a generalist approach. “Specialists remain essential, but generalists are vital translators, interpreters, and connectors in times of turbulence. And being a generalist can be a lot of fun too. As we collectively plow forward, this may be the norm for a lot of young people moving through an unpredictable future.”
We invited Diana MacKay to join us for a conversation about navigating wild career swings, and how that diversity of experience enables valuable insights that organizations can also embrace and leverage change and uncertainty.
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Your support matters! Become a patron and subscribe: goo.gl/ypXyDs
The views discussed in this video are the opinions of our guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Oh Boy Productions or this show. Any images in this video are for fair use only, as we are a journalism outlet that seeks to illustrate the topic or guest involved.
ctm588 #career #employment #jobs
