If you want security, become unemployable.
In six minutes on Wednesaday Amanda Gorman became unemployable.
A 22 year old who mesmerised people of every age with fluency, passion and quiet dignity. She set the grounds for determining her own future by inspiring others. On her own. Nobody else wrote her script. She set her own terms.
Whilst nothing of course is ever guaranteed, if ever she needed employment, to work on the direction of somebody else, I'm sure there would be queues wanting to employ her. I think that's unlikely though - if ever there was a person with a clear sense of direction, it's Amanda,
Much of the narrative during the inauguration yesterday concerned healing division, and part of that was the topic of restoring the middle class through the creation of secure jobs. The end is laudable, although the means opens up an interesting debate. In a time of chronic instability, just how do we create secure jobs?
One route would be for organisations to prioritise their workforce over their sh…
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