a career, lifetime mployment.ut of school, i go to work for a company, general motors or ibm and i worked there for 50 years. then i go fishing. that is like the idealized model. and by the way, it was great for the people who had it and was great living in that world. a couple of problems. a lot of people do not like the idea of working for a company for 50 years. second problem is, it was not available to most people. if you were female or black or gay or latino or disabled or from the wrong country or ethnicity or religion, it was exclusionary. t basically collapsed in the 1970's. it was a moment of time type of thing. the car companies started to do layoffs. uge anxiety about work because you cannot rely on this long-term career path. and at that world, you got your benefits from the company. you could provide health-care to your family. if you could not, did you know if you could take of your family? in the new world, the new way of looking at work is i want to seize opportunity. i want to start a company and