What's your passion ....
Graduation season once again and just this morning I read an article from a young Bahamian woman who said that the professions that a young Bahamian can return home and find employment in are: law, medicine and accounting.
I smiled to myself because she is right in a way.
For many years I have been very concerned about the youth especially at this time when the world can begin to feel so vast and a future so very unclear.
However everyone and so did I at first, have the notion that finding a job is the only way to go.
In the industrial age that was most important and set you off on a career path that was easily tracked, but we are no longer in that age. We have reached the age of technology and in another few years it will be even more defined in robotics.
We need to stop thinking of today only and prepare ourselves for the tomorrows: they are only a day away.
Was it less than 20 years ago most of us were introduced to mobile phones and lap tops. How have those things changed over the years?
A sound education is required is the way I look at it as without the basics neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates or the others would have made it as far as they have.
Im advocating a good look at the future and follow your gut feeling of what you are put on this earth to do and use it to make you money.
Not everything requires college/universities. Not all jobs would accept you without. But you have the power to determine where and how far you go and even your pay cheque if you think outside of simply getting a job. A job may be used to get you from one place to another but it would never be your stop unless its what you want to do, its giving you the rewards you want and your world is complete as it is.
If not... and in most cases it normally isn't, that job/experience is your stepping stone to something great and possibly better.
I always think of a family member who left school early and started handing out at the morgue to get of idea of that they did. This "hanging out" lead to a minor job and has been his life now for more than 30 years. It was his passion. It could have required tertiary education but he learned on the job and improved in the area that he liked best - sales.
He is very good at what he does and thoroughly enjoys it. It is a job for which there is very little competition. The business itself, if he decides one day to open his own funeral home, is not saturated.
With great customer service and compassion there is room in that profession.
But, like him, what do you want to do and can you improve on what has gone on before.
I smiled to myself because she is right in a way.
For many years I have been very concerned about the youth especially at this time when the world can begin to feel so vast and a future so very unclear.
However everyone and so did I at first, have the notion that finding a job is the only way to go.
In the industrial age that was most important and set you off on a career path that was easily tracked, but we are no longer in that age. We have reached the age of technology and in another few years it will be even more defined in robotics.
We need to stop thinking of today only and prepare ourselves for the tomorrows: they are only a day away.
Was it less than 20 years ago most of us were introduced to mobile phones and lap tops. How have those things changed over the years?
A sound education is required is the way I look at it as without the basics neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates or the others would have made it as far as they have.
Im advocating a good look at the future and follow your gut feeling of what you are put on this earth to do and use it to make you money.
Not everything requires college/universities. Not all jobs would accept you without. But you have the power to determine where and how far you go and even your pay cheque if you think outside of simply getting a job. A job may be used to get you from one place to another but it would never be your stop unless its what you want to do, its giving you the rewards you want and your world is complete as it is.
If not... and in most cases it normally isn't, that job/experience is your stepping stone to something great and possibly better.
I always think of a family member who left school early and started handing out at the morgue to get of idea of that they did. This "hanging out" lead to a minor job and has been his life now for more than 30 years. It was his passion. It could have required tertiary education but he learned on the job and improved in the area that he liked best - sales.
He is very good at what he does and thoroughly enjoys it. It is a job for which there is very little competition. The business itself, if he decides one day to open his own funeral home, is not saturated.
With great customer service and compassion there is room in that profession.
But, like him, what do you want to do and can you improve on what has gone on before.
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