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Ensuring job security is more about developing yourself than the right career.
In October 2018, Verizon laid off about 44,000 employees. This was more than 30% of its workforce.
Verizon targeted long-time employees, in particular those with more than 30 years in the firm, in its bid to cut costs and survive more than US$114 billion of debt.
I am 41. Pretty much mid-life and mid-career.
Reflecting on my own experience working for others and as an employer from time to time, I find that a person’s qualities are more important than his capabilities for job security.
And in today’s world, there is no quality more important than the willingness to learn.
You Live, You Learn
“I hate to hire people who come as experts because there’s no experts of future, they’re always experts of yesterday.”
— Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba
There is an old Chinese saying, “You learn as long as you live”.
In no other time in history is that saying more true.
Why?
