Sunday, September 16, 2007
Running careers in parallel
JP Rangaswami on maintaining parallel careers:
My father’s lifetime was contained in one job. I will probably have seven. My children will probably have seven — but in parallel, not like my sequential efforts.
As the cost of travel and communications continues to drop, and as social networking begins to impact our lives, I think we may see the same thing happen to bands. In my father’s time a musician belonged to one band. In my lifetime musicians belonged to seven. My children will see musicians belonging to seven bands at the same time.
I find this profoundly meaningful. The Barcamp Bangalore organising team already behaves like a formal organisation, affording a career in event management for all of us. It may be unregistered, with a floating population, existing only during the weekends of the two months preceding each event, but exist it does.