A pink slip used to feel like a rare disaster, the kind of thing whispered about at dinner tables. Today, layoffs trend on social media, job titles mutate overnight, and entire industries seem to reinvent themselves before lunch. It’s no wonder so many people feel like career stability has slipped through our fingers like loose change.
But before we declare modern work a permanent tightrope walk, it’s worth asking a harder question. Were careers truly more stable back then, or do they just look that way through the soft-focus lens of nostalgia?
