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Abstract
As a young adult, choice of an appropriate career can be one of life's most stressful decisions. Changing careers as an older adult may also be a very difficult transition. As previous chapters have articulated, much career choice difficulty stems from many complex and rapidly changing factors of the world of work, including the development of artificial intelligence and robotic technology (Hirschhorn, 1984; Hunt &Hunt, 1983; Majchrzak, 1988), globally driven markets (Halberstam, 1986; Hoerr, 1988; Scheuerman, 1986) where oil production decisions in Saudia Arabia quickly affect job markets in Texas, paperless information and communication systems where office employees can be separated by an office partition or by 3000 miles, and mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate restructuring (Blueston &Harrison, 1982; DeLuca, 1988; London, 1988; McCann &Gilkey, 1988; Woodard &Buchholz, 1987) that have stimulated the development of free agent and disposable managers (Hirsch, 1987).