Wanted: Free Agent

Once upon a time, it was reasonable to think a person could grow up, get a job and work at it the rest of his life until retirement. Those days are quickly becoming a thing of the past. According to experts, a person who begins work today can expect to have as many as fourteen full time jobs in five or more different career fields. A study cited in Forbes magazine showed that 42 percent of the working public is made up of free agents or contractors. These people are hired on by companies for a specific period of time or until a project is finished. As new businesses start up, current businesses grow and thousands of new products and services are introduced into the marketplace each year, these types of workers will be needed more and more. To the traditional worker, this may not sound very stable or secure, but in reality this puts security back into the hands of the employee. Brian Tracy often refers to this as