If I wasn’t clear in my last post, I think that one of the problems we have is that we’re pursuing a more educated and more credentialed workforce when what we should be pursuing is a more agile and protean workforce.
If I wasn’t clear in my last post, I think that one of the problems we have is that we’re pursuing a more educated and more credentialed workforce when what we should be pursuing is a more agile and protean workforce.
Who knows, maybe we’ll see a lot migration to Europe, considering their low or negative population growth rates.
We’d have to shift the paradigm so that people are constantly in a state of learning for work, and capable of jumping between frequently temporary and often erratic times of work and employment. Unfortunately, that often costs money, particularly for certain types of professional training.
We could also try to get more people to have a source of income outside of their labor, like greater personal savings or better yet, some type of relatively stable investment income that could smooth over the drops in income between work and unemployment. You’d have to change a lot of incentives, though, particularly the incentives for personal debt and heavy consumption.
Dont you have kids? They have this figured out already. My daughter, 28, has changed jobs at least 6 times since leaving college after getting some basic nonsense BA. Same with her friends. They move much more frequently than we did. When I talk with my son and his friends, they seem to understand this also. They all make it a point to really figure out how to use computers even if they arent going into IT since they know they will need the skills to continue learning. The most important part about education is learning how to learn. The bright kids figure this out fast.
Steve
Steve