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Perfect Shurmfect!
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Here we are, fast approaching the sixth year of the 21st century, and the mythical perfect job has mushroomed into something even more intangible and out of reach than ever before.
By the late '90s, the ideal job was no longer a steady paycheck, a 35-hour workweek and a fat pension, but something more amorphous. A job also had to be meaningful, pleasurable and fulfilling. And it ought to require commitment and creativity. These were attributes our great-grandparents never considered because most of the available jobs were menial. When you're living at survival levels, you're hardly thinking about job fulfillment.
But just as quickly as an enlightened new generation of job searchers had realized the ideal job ought to have the above attributes, they quickly concluded that no single job could possibly provide all of them, especially in light of unabated firings. Nothing like an unexpected pink slip to make you an instant cynic.
So here we are, hopefully wiser, more sophisticated and street-smart. It's time to bury the notion of a perfect job once and for all. In the paragraphs ahead you're going to find out why.
After a century of rapid-fire change, we ought to know that when companies are struggling for survival, the only people they're making promises to are venture capitalists and stockholders, the folks funding their growth. Everyone else is dispensable. Once…
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