it should be noted that the traditional employment relationship did not exist everywhere and for everyone many industries and occupations including the entertainment industry agriculture construction and related trades and professional services such as law accounting and architecture have always had significant numbers of organization and workers existing in short-term and medium-term relationships and career most people the traditional paradigm and what came with was seen as the prototype of a career and working for an organization with this kind of relationship or working in a mainstream occupation was seen as having a real job or a career
for those who enter the workforce believing in and expecting this more traditional form of employment relationship the realization that things have changed can be unnerving and unsettling facing the realization that they not the organization are responsible for their own continued employability has created uncertainty for many people yehuda baruch writes this shift has left many lost generation employees both behind and bewildered in a manner analogous to the Israelites of the desert generation in old testament