Looking for jobs, having a career, job security- these things are no longer the way we are working. The average college grad today will have 15 ‘jobs’ by age 35- which means redefining the meaning of what we do for a living. Everyone is, in essence, a freelancer and a lot of people are struggling with this. Freelancing is an entirely different thing than having a job.

Fortunately Seth Godin has taken his usual way of changing perception and applied it to the work model. Work is going to mean assembling your skills, experience and connections and creating a package that others will pay for. For example I’m building (on a wiki platform) a site that contains everything in Rochester’s waterfront neighborhoods: Real estate, parks, shopping, sights, restaurants, services- everything. When I’m done I’m going to invite residents of these neighborhoods to write about their area.

Once this ‘package’ is complete I’m going to sell exclusive access to it to an area real estate firm or broker. They’ll appear on all the pages as a link to learn more about buying or selling a waterfront property in our area. Leads for these properties are worth a lot of money. You’ll be able to find it at WaterfrontRochester.com. I also own WaterfrontFingerLakes.com and several other cities. They’ll get packaged up too.

The Recession and its downsizings have forced all of us to think differently about work. Those who understand this change and jump right in will do very well. Those who cling to the idea that their old jobs will somehow come back will not.

Check out Paul Krugman’s chart created to quell global warming deniers like George Will who use inaccurate and carefully selected datasets to make their case that warming is not taking place.

You might want to check out this image too.

temperatures 1880-2006

Can you go totally all out for 20-30 seconds of riding or swimming, rest for four minutes and repeat 3 more times? And do this three times week? New studies show that this kind of very intense interval training can produce results equal to six hours per week of ordinary riding or swimming.

The key to this is total, exhausting effort in short bursts. You can’t just speed up, you must go full tilt to the point where you cannot continue for more than 20-30 seconds. That’s one the reasons running may not be suited to this as they don’t know the effect of the pounding on your feet that this kind of sprinting might have.

I don’t do enough aerobic activity. I walk 2-3 miles every day, as much to clear my head as for exercise, and I have a resistance routine at the gym. I’m going to try this interval method in the pool.

If this works no one has any excuse for not getting in shape. None of us want to have the health problems we see in seniors who didn’t take care of themselves when they were our age- it’s a quality of life issue.

If you try it let me know how it works for you.

He found this.