I find myself at a crossroads as a parent. My daughter is thinking about career and what she would like to do with her future and how to focus her studies.
She, as many teens, are led down this career planning path. Many kids can get quite anxious about these types of decisions.
How can someone decide when they are a teen what their career should be? These decisions have long lasting implications.
What If The Career Decision Is Wrong?
I recently participated in an evening class offered by the school that focused on parents as education and career coaches for their kids.
I would not say that I had high expectations of this course. But, I was there to learn how I could better support my daughter. Not surprisingly, I was not inspired by it. Do not get me wrong here, having people at any age evaluate passion, interests and abilities is very important.
However, what concerns me is encouraging youth to determine a path for their life and making education decisions based on this. Consequently, this may narrow their future opportunities.
We Exist In A Sorting System
For example, if a parent were to decide their child is non-academic, they might encourage their child to enter the non-academic stream in high school. As a result, the student is offered preparation courses for trade certificates and apprenticeships.
This streaming would prevent this student from making entry requirements for college and university. Later, choosing an academic path would require upgrading or bridging courses, which, essentially, is an expensive extension of high school.
The evening course continued through some good topics and arrived at reference material which would allow me as a parent to determine what jobs would be in demand when my daughter enters the workforce. Ideally, I would steer my daughter toward one of these outcomes. Feed to economic machine, the golden ticket to the career you will love. Love to free yourself from maybe.
This Is What The Education System Is Designed To Do
Feed the economy the workers of tomorrow.
Good news! The large non-government organizations (NGO) are hard at work determining the economic future of nations.
In addition, from the Winter 2020 report The Jobs Of Tomorrow the world economic forum agrees with what I wrote here.
Conclusively, going forward creativity is your competitive edge. More specifically they state In 2025, analytical thinking, creativity, and flexibility will be among the most sought-after skills.
This Is Really A Non-Report Though
These were always the most sought-after skills in my opinion.
The problem is most jobs, the education system and society are currently by design geared toward building the factory workers of tomorrow.
The education systems need to be revamped; their role is no longer building good workers for the factories of yesteryear. Yesteryear is gone.
In fact, his focus does not create potential success for future generations.
Do I Buy Into The New World Order
And do I tell my daughter the jobs of the future are: Data Analysts, AI and Machine Learning Specialists, Big Data Specialists, Digital Marketing and Strategy Specialists or any of the other careers on the Ins list?
Today I noticed that the International Monetary Fund has written in The Post-Pandemic BRAVE New World that change for future jobs and opportunity must be big in scope and scale. They appear aware that people demand change to tax systems and they arrive at a concept of requiring that a greater tax burden fall on capital, ideally through net wealth tax, which is more productivity friendly than other capital taxes. Because this is necessary to benefit those on the margins of the labor market – the young, ill-educated, and minorities. Interestingly all tied to large, rich economies, especially reserve currency issuers
Another note of interest in the BRAVE new world is this statement Governments should convert COVID-related rescue loans to companies that struggle to repay into tradeable equity stakes. Controlling stakes, they hope?
I Could Continue
But, there it is, a nice new world order cloaked under all the hot topics in the world today poised on the economic distress caused by the plandemic.
Reform taxation of the middle class, tap into capital where all the wealth currently resides, use government influence and businesses to drive monetary and fiscal policies and support countries who continue to remain connected to the reserve currency model.
I suppose they also know they have tapped too deeply in the veins of the working class and now need to stick their straw into the capital of high-net worth individuals. There is no mention, however, of redistribution of wealth beyond their interests so the middle class is likely still stuck in the middle-income trap. NGOs will simply ensure the high-net worth individuals are brought back down into rank with the rest of us. This poses potential obstacles for my goal of creating generational wealth.
Consumerism Is Still Acceptable
In this BRAVE new world. It produces a high-pressure economy with strong demand growth to give productive firms reason to expand and ensure new jobs appear as bad jobs disappear. I could not find a definition of a bad job.
Lift Humanity
I can not help but wonder what the world might be like if our educators supported youth in learning how to maximize their potential through creativity, free thought and enlightened knowledge. Lift humanity, instead of crushing the best of it.
A Challenge
The authors of this BRAVE new world throw out a challenge to leaders in the form of three revolutionary decisions before leaders now:
1.Reallocation or restoration?
2.Building back better or back to business?
And
3.Are states ready to once again embrace planning?
The response the NGO suggests to these three questions:
1.Leaders! Build a new economic model.
2.Leaders! Double down using the current economic dislocation to move to a different path
And
3.Leaders! Most governments are neither used to strategic planning nor all that good at it.
Onward We March
To stakeholder capitalism. Control through Corporations.
This revolution is aimed at the wrong target. It should be aimed at the mutant and corrupt form of capitalism at play globally today.
Back To Career
For my daughter, we have discussed taking an education path that keeps future options open, we have talked about gaining broad knowledge and experience then with time focusing on areas of peaked interest and satisfaction. We talked about the system around us, the importance of freedom and we took some time to be creative together.
There is opportunity in the discomfort of uncertainty.
Never ignore what your heart pumps for. Mold your career around your lifestyle, not your lifestyle around your career.
Kevin Claiborne
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