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Mind Shift

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The hidden trend in the monthly jobs report — and what it means for you | paulacaligiuri.com

There is a big change on the horizon in the way we should conceive of the concept of jobs – and it is dramatically changing how job security will be created in the future. For many, jobs of the future may be more like multiple income generating activities (or gigs) where we leverage our talents and skills. Job security will no longer be derived from being employed 40 hours/week. Rather, it will be something we create for ourselves when our talents and skills are in demand.

This is a mind shift.

The emphasis of the future will be on the skills you bring, rather than the job you occupy. There will be a far greater focus on self-management of both our skills and our network, two critical components of career success. Possessing more sought-out skills and having a strong network will be related to more income opportunities, whether working for a single organization or as an independent contractor.

Perhaps we need to take a collective deep breath and realize that, while change is afoot, this free agent mentality may also come with some upsides:

  • You will now have tremendous flexibility to plan and grow your own career, no longer relinquishing career management to an employer.
  • You will now have the ability to craft your sources of income across multiple opportunities if this is what you chose to do.
  • You will now have the opportunity to engage in a career that fits with your life – and not vice versa.

Thanks Paula.  I could not have said this better myself.

Scary Charts of the Day – 6/13/10

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On Turning a Mountain Into a Molehill | Credit Writedowns

Readers of my Scary Charts posts will note that sometimes you’ll find a chart with a link to the original article while other times you’ll find just the link.

If all you see is a link, I encourage you to read the original article.

You gotta read this one.

Insomnia and Mortality Risk

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Medical News: APSS: Insomnia Raises Mortality Risk Threefold – in Meeting Coverage, APSS from MedPage Today

Insomnia should be considered a condition with potentially lethal consequences, not simply a bothersome fact of life that people must live with, a researcher said here.

Among participants in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, chronic insomnia was associated with a threefold risk of all-cause mortality (HR 2.9, 95% CI 1.4 to 5.8), Laurel Finn, MS, of the University of Wisconsin Madison, and colleagues reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

RA + Interstitial Lung Disease = High Mortality Risk

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Medical News: High Mortality with Lung Disease in RA – in Rheumatology, Arthritis from MedPage Today

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who develop interstitial lung disease face a very high mortality risk, a population-based study found.

The risk of death for RA patients who develop interstitial lung disease was nearly triple compared with patients without pulmonary involvement (HR 2.86, 95% CI 1.98 to 4.12), according to Tim Bongartz, MD, and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

And median survival of RA patients after a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease was only 2.6 years, considerably lower than the expected survival of 9.9 years for RA patients of the same age and sex without lung disease (P<0.001), the researchers reported in the June issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.

You Want Some Asthma With That Burger?

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Medical News: What Kids Eat Is Tied to Asthma Risk – in Allergy & Immunology, Asthma from MedPage Today

Eating a Mediterranean diet — one high in fruits, fish, and vegetables and low in saturated fat — is associated with a reduced likelihood of asthma in children, a large observational study reaffirmed.

Overall, choosing foods increasingly similar to a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower prevalence of both wheeze and asthma (P=0.03 for both trends), Gabriele Nagel, MD, MPH, of Ulm University in Germany, and colleagues reported in the June issue of Thorax.

In contrast, children who ate burgers at least three times a week had increased odds of having asthma (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.87).

The medpage Today article goes on to include the following action point for physicians:

Note that these findings, which are consistent with previous studies, do not establish a causal relationship between food choices and the odds of having asthma.

Most of the MSM is focusing on the burger angle.  Be careful what you read.