As jobs keep morphing, providing less security and certainty, some people are leaning into the trend by becoming career slashers... as in filmmaker/longshoreman or investor/philanthropist/art dealer.

The slash career may be a recognition of a serious hobby that becomes more than avocational. Or it may simply be an adjustment to a reality -- less work in one field, a smaller market for a particular set of skills -- that can't be changed. But whatever the reason, it suggest at least two public policy responses to the dwindling importance of the "office" in people's lives:

1. Portable benefits and benefits available for purchase or free from government.
2. Provision of public places, third places, and public leisure and learning events.

Thanks to our friend Steven Brewster in San Jose for flagging this item.

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