Careers in the Coevolution of Lives and Societies

The richness of the career field is astonishing, as this volume testifies. Indeed, many contributors point out that there is much more out there that we could be writing about and researching. Casting one’s mind back a few decades to the first collected volumes of writings on careers, one is struck by the contrast—then the field was dominated by a few quite distinctive approaches yet with a strong sense of future possibilities. Well, the future arrived, and how much better off are we? Is the field richer or just denser? Where are the big ideas, or is that an immature longing in a field where a thousand flowers are already blooming?