Designing a Freelance Life Part 1: The Brief — from designthinking.ideo.com by Tim Brown
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
A recent article on the freelance workplace refers to an Intuit study that predicts 40% of the workforce will be freelance by 2020.
From DSC:
If this doesn’t point to a critical need for lifelong learning, I don’t know what does…we will all need to know how to build our own learning ecosystems.
Also, here’s an excerpt from http://qz.com/65279/40-of-americas-workforce-will-be-freelancers-by-2020/
We are quickly becoming a nation of permanent freelancers and temps. In 2006, the last time the federal government counted, the number of independent and contingent workers—contractors, temps, and the self-employed—stood at 42.6 million, or about 30% of the workforce. How many are there today? We have no idea since 2006 was the last year that the government bothered to count this huge and growing sector of the American workforce.
From DSC:
How can we better teach our students to thrive as freelancers? Will their background of being successful at standardized tests help them in this situation? Will being able to plug-n-chug on equations cut it? We better start getting much more creative and allowing our students to be more creative — to pursue their own passions, gifts, abilities. Then, they will have a better chance of finding meaning and purpose in their work.