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Something is missing, say many doctors, lawyers and career experts: the old sense of purpose, of respect, of living at the center of American society and embodying its definition of “success.”
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It’s not just because the professions have changed, but also because the standards of what makes a prestigious career have changed.
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Especially among young people, professional status is now inextricably linked to ideas of flexibility and creativity, concepts alien to seemingly everyone but art students even a generation ago.
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It’s not just because the professions have changed, but also because the standards of what makes a prestigious career have changed.
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Especially among young people, professional status is now inextricably linked to ideas of flexibility and creativity, concepts alien to seemingly everyone but art students even a generation ago.
— Lawyers are out, creativity is in. Via The NYTimes: The Falling-Down Professions
