Earning has peaked and the ladder has run out. The last decade of ambition before the last decade of work.
This is a want. Something a person cannot stop feeling. Discretionary in theory, relentless in practice — status and belonging live here. It is felt by the individual, continuously, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It comes from Status and Uncertainty meeting the demands of Midlife. The constants never change; the phase decides which of them presses hardest.
The market has answered it in 3 ways: Executive education and MBAs, Executive and career coaching and Starting a business
Those answers were not free. Between them they created 1 further frictions, which is where the next layer of industries comes from.
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Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.