Working Outside: Don't Count on Those Jobs

 Boomers remember that era before air-conditioning became standard. There were times when even in our capitalist max-productivity system it was too hot to work. At a Pennsylvania college - Seton Hill in rural Pennsylvania - the president gave all employees the day off. 

By midcentury, projects the Union of Concerned Scientists, that could happen on a regular basis. About 32 million outdoor workers could lose out on $55 billion each year in wages. (College staff didn't lose pay.) Those out-of-work could range from landscapers to construction crews to farm laborers to those Manhattan dog walkers. 

So, labor markets are not only being reconfigured by AI, extreme cost-efficiency and the end of management as we've known it. There are the implications of what some believe to be climate change. Yet, in coaching more and more clients tell me that "I want to work outside." A nation tires of The Box, that is, the office. Let's get outside, move around.

In addition to work, lifestyles could go poof. Forget the satisfaction of gardening, hiking and jogging. Actually, there might be no lifestyle. Heat could trigger mass migrations from some locations. A decade ago I already found it too hot to reside in Tucson, Arizona. By 2050 that could be impossible. 

Not a bit of this is sci-fi. The recent heat wave here in the midwest was so intense that the dog wouldn't take a walk during the day. For him, I had to keep the air-conditioner high.

Careers? So Over. It’s about Earning a Good Living. No matter what.

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