Liquid Life

The term “Liquid Life’ essentially means “a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty.”

This isn’t just about life itself, but more the working life style. I will be basing this blog post more off Deuze, M. (2006) ‘Liquid Life, Convergence Culture, and Media Work’.

Today’s society is based around the balance of work/social life but individuals seem to be so stuck in their working worlds that we often forget that maybe we aren’t ‘living our best lives.’ When I say this I mean that we are so focused and centred around working, staying employed and continually making decisions which will help our future that we forget about our ‘now’.

We go to school to go to Uni to find a better paying job. Or, we leave school early to start our working lives before our friends and be ‘ahead of the game’. We are so centred around the notion of working our whole lives when really there is this massive uncertainty of where work will take us or where our next employment will come from.

“Work comes in many different shapes and sizes – paid and non-paid, voluntary and
employed, professional and amateuristic – and we seem to be engulfed in it all of the time.”

I feel that most Communication and Media students feel the angst of uncertainty when it comes to employment because of the various fields we are able to be apart of after we finish and not having one simple direction. Personally, this isn’t worrying me at the moment, I am here because it is interesting to me and I know it will be helpful for my future at some point.

Whatever will be, will be, R.