THE WORKPLACE

Career Flexibility: Time was you got out of school, went to work and stayed in the same business your entire life. People who grew up in the Great Depression wanted that kind of security, and those who changed careers were viewed as flaky and unreliable.

No more. Now it’s the norm to move from company to company--and even to another industry--in the course of a career.

In fact, with all the changes going on in the workplace these days, people have to be more flexible about careers. The old days are over, and they won’t come back.

So says Shena Crane, an Irvine career counselor, who has a book coming out from Vista Press in a few days titled, “What Do I Do Now? Making Sense of Today’s Changing Workplace.”

“Today, in order to do well or just survive, people must revise their ideas about careers and jobs,” writes Crane, who runs a company called Mentor Career Services.

“Those who continue to plan careers and pursue jobs based on yesterday’s realities will have a tough time succeeding.”