The Best Jobs For The Future

"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

"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

To start your own business on the internet, I can think of no better guide than Jennifer, the Pot Pie Girl. Her One Week Marketing is a solid entry into your own web based, portable business. She has an easy to follow, step by step guide, to building your own internet business.

This is a usable education that will add knowledge and understanding. Jennifer will teach you how to construct a micro internet business in a week, and how to develop another micro cash flow business next week. You do the work to build out a series of small cash flows. In a year most of your 52 weeks of accumulated cash flows should be flowing together every week, providing a healthy income stream. And you can keep on developing more micro businesses, building ever more income.

What will you be doing in a year if you don't start One Week Marketing?

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.

The salt of the earth has been treated by government, business, education, union organizers, and themselves as an expendable resource. They have been depleted.

In general, the value of further formal education has reached equilibrium with the costs - deferred income, books, and college expenses are now roughly equal to the extra income derived from a degree. The remaining advantage to college is that perhaps you can party a bit more than in a salary slave job for those few years.


A way out of the malaise created in our fracturing "one size fits most" society is available - take control of your own life.

Rediscover the pleasures of constant self directed learning.

You do not need to ask permission to read, learn, and understand new ideas. You have personal authority over your own life - use it.

Embrace the new frugality while escaping old middle class conspicuous consumption.

Eliminate debt and dependency while developing a sustainable lifestyle of inexpensive security, food, and energy.

Avoid commuting by discovering local solutions and networked opportunities for entrepreneurship.

Help develop co-operative and collaborative relationships that will be mutually supportive as disruptions in centralized services increase. In sustained periods of local autonomy, these relationships should be able to resist aggression and still prosper.

Refrain from paper and international investments while first constructing personal and neighborhood productivity platforms. Retain personal, international safety nets in case your neighborhood falls apart.

There will be physical requirements in the process toward new communities and ways of organizing - consider developing new skills that complement your technical development.


Just as the guilds were replaced by the unionized factory worker and their lower level management, so the middle class is being replaced by collaborative networks of innovative knowledge workers - those individuals comprising the Netcohort.

Keep dispersed contacts, developing new social networks that emphasize insights, encouragement, and shared methodologies. Open systems that are not geographic in nature will be important for developing new technologies and responsive systems.

There are already communities that will cherish your contributions and leverage your efforts - put in the time to find them. It only takes five to ten dedicated people to build the core of a community, be one of them.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

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By Zig Ziglar

Never shall I forget an incident in Atlanta, Georgia, when I was conducting a sales seminar. Just before the seminar started, two well-dressed young men in their late twenties came and asked if they could get a refund on their tickets. They explained that they had just lost their sales jobs because of a personality conflict with their manager. Since they had no sales jobs, to learn additional sales techniques would be of little or no value to them (they obviously had momentarily lost perspective and did not realize that they now more than ever needed their sales skills and training to sell their way into another job).

I asked the two young salesmen two questions. Number one, 'Do you like to sell?' They both replied in the affirmative. Number two, 'Would you like another sales job?' They again replied in the affirmative. Then I assured the two young men that before the evening was over I would have a dozen interviews for sales jobs for them if they attended the session.

That evening when I reached this point in the presentation concerning the security of the sales job, I asked the audience two questions. Number one, 'How many of you are in sales management?' Roughly one hundred of the five hundred hands went up. Question number two, 'How many of you would be interested in interviewing two enthusiastic young salesmen who present an excellent appearance and are sold on the profession of selling but lost their jobs because of a personality conflict with their manager?' Something like seventy-five hands went up. The two young men were able to pick and choose from a dozen solid offers as to what they wanted to do.

Yes, selling is a secure profession.


General Douglas MacArthur defined security as the ability to produce.

As long as you can produce, my selling friend, you have financial and career security.

I watched the original Star Trek series as a first run serial on TV. I programed a computer with data cards, before they were fast enough to use keyboard entry. Kind of like Scotty talking into a mouse, "Hello Computer." How quaint. I also programed early personal computers, like the one pictured, before they were know as PCs. But I wanted to play, not work. I imagine you are a modern version of me and my friends. So here's the deal.

I've been successful, but It was always a bad choice. Doing things I didn't enjoy, because that's how you make money, doing what others avoid -- like sales. I found one or two things that were decent compromises, lots of change and mental challenges, and a few sales tricks to close a deal. But somehow I was always working for someone else, and they or circumstances changed the rules, success and the money fled.

I'm very comfortable financially right now, and I do what I want, like writing this epistle to you. My time could perhaps be spent more profitably offering get rich schemes to ignorant dreamers, but I don't need that type of money. I get a kick out of starting people thinking, opening their minds. And it's really cool when others follow my lead toward interesting things like personal freedom. That link is to a free online university I started, open content and open source. It has shaken some things loose, believe me. But I no longer get hate mail from professors and teacher's unions, I've become respectable.

Gotta end that.

It's nice to be able to afford to do what's right, rather than what's expected of the drones.

This is a low percentage pitch, not particularly relevant to the pages content, nor filled with words that sizzle and pop. I suspect however that if you are curious enough to have read this far, you might investigate a chance to live your own life. I'm not offering instant wealth without work just for sending me money - those offers are always frauds. They sell dreams, the packages the dreams come in are seldom opened. It was the dream that was bought --an empty, soon forgotten dream.

If I were selling dreams I would send the reader to a closing page, and keep testing my wording here to increase my click through and closing percentage. But hey, you know a bit about me, that has no appeal. If you are the sort of person I think you are, you don't want dreams. You don't want to repeat my life - you want to live your own life. On your own terms. I'll send you to another of my Squidoo lenses where you can look at a few ideas that may work for you.

It's too late to worry about your past. Your future is yours to control. I'm not going to tell you to do this because you deserve it or you owe it to yourself. I will ask you to investigate this because I think you can expand to deserve it.

There will be links at that lens to review even more information if you wish. Believe me, it's better than selling life insurance or living in a Dilbert cubical. In fact I bet you can become independent enough to create a university that makes mine obsolete. Somebody will. I would like it to be someone I've encouraged. By the way, for you I suggest skipping step one. Start with step two and the bonus step, you can handle it:

Click Here -- Consider Your Future

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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

 

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