Abstract
Research and observations highlight the multiplicity of career patterns in the culture of postmodern societies. This phenomenon is inextricably linked to the emergence of a new, opaque social order in which the socio-cultural situation forces the abandonment of the linear narrative of life.
Highlights
Research and observations highlight the multiplicity of career patterns in the culture of postmodern societies
There are no surprises when we look at answers to the question of what a career is and who creates it, answers to the question of what determines it, facilitates it or hinders it, reveal such surprises
Respondents, probably noticing the specificity of constructing non-linear, individualised, flexible careers in the post-modern era, relatively often verbalise dissonances related to this process
Summary
Career (in the English-speaking tradition) or professional biography (in the Germanspeaking tradition) is perceived as a course of professional life, which consists of all experiences of an individual connected with work. Young adults are convinced (which is certainly supported by experience) that in postmodern culture the body and appearance, especially adapted to the media-created canons of beauty, are an important element of individual identity formation (Jacyno, 2007; Melosik, 2013), and a considerable asset on the way to professional success Another group of characteristics indicated by respondents consists of cynical terms, probably fuelled by professional frustrations and previous difficult experience of respondents in the labour market (after all, students already gain it during the entire period of tertiary education). Much more self-critical way of describing professional reality is presented by those respondents who above all in the subjective dimension perceive the basic reasons for the difficulties met by young people constructing their careers This area includes, for example, the statement of a middle school girl regarding the inhibitors of professional careers, among which she mentions shyness, inappropriate appearance, lack of tolerance. Among the factors of subjective nature, respondents indicate: convenience and comfort of making minimal effort, lack of imagination among young people, and laziness, lack of patience, greed for too much money without work or vanity
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