The Alternative to Entrepreneurship: Intrapreneurship

Becoming a Better System Worker

Imagined by Rebecca at Canvas.com

There was a time when getting a job working for a great company was the gold standard we measured success. It went something like:

• Go to school
• Learn a trade or discipline
• Get a job
• Enjoy your 20–30 year career.
• Retire and enjoy the rest of your life

Then came the end of the 20th century where we witnessed an explosion in the proliferation of technology. The Information Age had officially arrived. And with it, we officially ushered out the Industrial Age.

What does this mean to the average worker in the 21st century?

With the rise in technology and the creation of the internet, a new era was born. And with this new era came a rise in entrepreneurship as professionals began using technology to create their own pathways to income. Connect that to the massive layoffs we witnessed starting in the 1980s as corporations noticed the economic shift. Enter the concept of the “disposable worker.” No longer did companies see employees as assets and essential to company growth. Instead, employees were classified as “the cost of doing business,” and any cost-cutting measure was tied to a…