college and the job market
YOU are your most valuable job qualification. The future is cloudy, a likely economic depression makes all projections a bit chancy. How then can we decide on the top jobs for the future? We can see large trends and act on them, such as the emergence of self as the largest employer category. The best job in the future will be a job you develop to satisfy needs in a valuable way. A job custom fit to you. You can always gain on deck experience by checking new job opportunities at .jachunt.com ( world’s no.1 job and career site) Prepare “Will your life be based on what you want to use it to accomplish, or by random urges of what you want to do?” - Allan Wallace Jobs of the Future Exactly which future were you asking about? “It is interesting to stand at a crossroads and wonder what lies in each direction. The world is at such a juncture, and we are in position to influence its choice.” - Allan Wallace Do I need to get a college degree? What is a college diploma’s value, to me, in the future. “Wisdom and understanding are enthusiastic pursuits rather than a historic record.” - Allan Wallace The primary purpose of a degree in our bureaucratic society is not evidence of learning. the importance of education is no longer personal growth. A degree is most often sought today as a self marketing tool. A degree was the meal ticket of the late industrial age. Sadly, this style of education is counterproductive to learning, conditioning students to resent reading, thinking independently, and acquiring wisdom. “knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind” - Plato Picking your subjects according to your passions, and developing mastery within your own chosen field - that is the basis for an enjoyable, useful education. That is only occasionally accompanied by a college diploma. More frequently, we have to detoxify our pleasures of learning that were poisoned by compulsive schooling. Self directed learning is about passion. If you love liberty you will examine psychology also, this will lead you to sociology and economics. You study what you want to know. Your knowledge raises other questions, and you seek other answers. Learning becomes an all day, every day, all life experience. Learning is a pleasure. If you want to start walking the walk immediately: learn a skill or start a business that can support you anywhere. ” There Are NO Short Cuts To Success… But, you CAN spend yourself into failure.” - Pot Pie Girl By contrast, those late industrial age college diplomas are a prison release for proper execution of a four, six, or ten year sentence. They qualify their holders to voluntarily enter new prisons, working to make others wealthy; paying taxes and following rules to make others more powerful. As of today, work at becoming interconnected and personally valuable. There is no security in surrendering to life as a drone. Sales ability and independent thought combined with action will always be valued; human drones are being replaced by robots, talented and well educated foreign labor, and computerized solutions. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” - Coco Channel Rediscover the pleasures of learning. Do it for yourself this time. It’s ok to learn just because you want to know. It’s ok to start a natural enterprise just because you will enjoy it; and it will provide a solution that others will pay for. In fact it is okay to start a business just to make a profit and your family’s lives more secure. It’s ok to take back your own life. Our interconnected future will favor the prepared (your responsibility) and adaptable (your opportunity) mind. Prepare “We are surrounded by easily perceived barriers that limit our achievement. Most such walls were erected using substantial appearing mists of ignorance. We need to discover and acknowledge these boundaries, and then run through them.” Allan R. Wallace What sort of job do you want to be working at in ten years? How you prepare now will determine what you will be doing. “You don’t need a longer book or more time with a talented consultant. What you need is the certainty of knowing that you ought to do something (one thing); then you need the will to do it.” - Seth Godin You already know what to do — start doing it. Most of us do not want the next five years to be a repeat of the prior five years - we want something better. To have a chance of something better, something has to change. The easiest and hardest thing to change is yourself. What do you want for your future? I’m really curious. Is It becoming more important what you know and how you use it, than where you learned it? Today a college degree has value. A College degree’s value is decreasing as they become common and as bloated bureaucracies shrink due to technology. You didn’t want to spend your life in a cubical anyway. In five to ten years the depression we are entering should bottom. I think: as we come out, technology enabled individuals and their flexible teams, not bureaucracies, will bring in a new era.Your reputation and integrity are therefore most important. What do you think? This article is proudly supported by .jachunt.com (job and career site).
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