What's more important to a job - job security or career potential?
Job security is more important to a job than career potential, hands down.You will not have career potential without job security. Without job security, you will not be able to earn a living and develop skills and gain experience for your next job.Firstly, let us define what is job security and career.Job security is a state where you know that your job with an employer is secure and that you can remain in gainful employment in the future unlikely to be dismissed or made redundant.Career is a defined occupation, profession, or vocation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s working life where there are opportunities to progress themselves as an expert with deep knowledge of the subject matter..If you want a career, you need job security.To remain in employment over a significant period of time so that you can build a career requires job security. Having a secure job will give you that foundation upon which you can build a career..Workers today are facing up to 62 challenges as documented in my eBook, Shocking Secrets Every Worker Needs to Know: How to future-proof your job, increase your income, and protect your wealth in today's digital age.Rather than developing a career over the long term, it may be wise to seek jobs that are in demand in the future so that you have job security to pay the bills.The bonus of having secured jobs is the ability to develop your career.
In The Future, Will Doctors Still Have Job Security?
Not really -- but they don't have job security now (not the ones who work for employers, anyway). One of the very harsh lessons I've learned is that there is no such thing as job security. If you are paid by an employer, your job lasts as long as it is to the employer's advantage to keep you on. Period. I much prefer my present situation. I'm self employed doing freelance work. I can't be fired. I can't be "written up." I can't be laid off If business is slow, I just have to spend a little more time finding gigs.I don't have a job -- but my income is more secure than anyone who does. That used to be true of most doctors in the US -- and those who did work for employers could always switch to practicing on their own if they wanted/needed to. Today, that's becoming the exception, rather than the norm.