Went earlier today over to the Westin Tampa Bay to meet some folks and suck up some ideas at the pre-conference workshop of the Florida Boomer Lifestyle Conference. The official fancy title: “Boomer Career Reinvention: “How to Live, Survive, and Thrive in the New Gig Economy.”

Some picked-up pieces:

*** Mick Constantinou: “It isn’t a service contract anymore. It’s a service contract. As opposed to having one job, you’re going to have a lot of gigs.”

*** Joe DiMaio: “You don’t have hours. You start when you wake up and you end when you go to sleep.”

*** Some stats from A.D. Frazier’s presentation: “Four percent of workers under 30 are self-employed. Fifteen percent of workers 50 to 64 are self-employed. Twenty-five percent of workers over 65 are self-employed.”

*** Everybody agreed: Get on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, and preferably all of them. Said Peter Kageyama: “For those of you who are not on Facebook or Twitter, ask your kids or your grandkids.” If you’re not on at least one? Said Frazier: “It says mossback. It says troglodyte.” Personally, if nothing else, I appreciated very much the usage of the choice words “mossback” and “troglodyte.”

*** A super fun word Donna Gordon of Donna Gordon Gallery and Studio in St. Pete has invented to describe being a “second-career” entrepreneur out on your own: “exterrified.” It means, she said, a combination of excited and terrified.

Anyway, this is an oversimplification, but I sat there thinking that what it’s come down to is this: YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN. Out: Organization Man. In: Me LLC. Plenty of opportunity, if you’re mobile, dynamic and fit -- but also more than a little unsettling, no? The death of WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER? Or am I just all angsty and misreading?