Changes in Modern Work, Occupations and Professions

Abstract

The leading goal of the considerations contained in this text is an attempt to show the changes that take place in relation to work, occupations or profession, and therefore consequently changes in the ways and forms of implementation of both the traditionally understood occupational and the related professional career. It is primarily about changes in the occupations and professions, both in the context of contemporary changes in the content of work, forms of work and forms of employment, as well as in relation with the development of digital technologies. Technical and technological progress has clearly accelerated both the process of disappearance of the old and the emergence of many new occupations, professions, specialties or activities known as work, but devoid of some of its attributes. Freelancing is the specific example of these characteristic changes that have place at the same time and possess an increasingly common form of work and employment. However, the multitude of factors and processes influencing the redefinition of contemporary work, occupations and professions causes that researchers dealing with social anchoring of work do not always agree on the direction and pace of changes that will take place in the future. Many of my doubts and related issues concern what other, apart from work, important forms of activity will become common and available to the average individual. Such forms of activity should also become a source of self-realization, self-esteem, social prestige and the maintenance of social order, just like work today.