The talent pool - the baby boomers - many of them are now retiring. Could it be for their creativity; their ability to work beyond the linear? Companies can always hire number crunchers. Conventional wisdom is just downright boring.So is flatlining.
At the same time, baby boomers are jumping into the arts both before and post retirement. Painting, weaving, pottery, woodworking. There is no gender bias toward the arts anymore. Perhaps it is because they were tired of the noose. The workplace was rigid. Men wore ties, women wore suits. Constraining both physically and humanly. There was little room for personal expression in both clothing and in one's job.
That has begun to change. More and more Fortune 100 companies are opting for casual attire, even sport shirts. Some have no collar guidelines. This is especially true in the high tech fields. They simply want your creativity. Google, Microsoft, Apple are a few.
I keep up with a lot of friends from my youth. The one thing they remember about me is my creativity. This past year, I rearranged a couple of rooms in my home. It was time for a studio. A place to look outside the window, to the gardens and the mountain range near my home. Southwestern and northwestern light come through here via two separate windows. The best of all worlds. An openness. Expansive. A new white desk serves as the platform for this. The studio also serves as a guestroom.
As I continue to find more creative outlets, I find it a curious contrast that as our government seeks more and more power and citizens continue to lose their privacy and their civil rights citizens seek a deeper means of expression now. Maybe that is why the arts attract so many people as undergraduate and graduate degrees and professions today.
For my part, I enjoy playful art. Capturing every detail doesn't matter; it matters that we capture its essence.
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