Article : careers
Whatever your parents did,
do the opposite!
Your Mum and Dad were told by their Mum and Dad that they had one
chance at finding a career and the perfect job, but your choice is very
different, you only have to find the right direction and the best starting point.
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t’s likely in your lifetime, which should be 100
years +, you’ll have at least 6 careers and 14
jobs, will work project and task and not 9 – 5,
use all sorts of not yet seen tech, gadgets and devices
all of the time and create your own jobs rather than
get jobs.
Looking for work in the near future is all about having
great transferable skills and looking for incredible
opportunities to use them.
60% of all of the task you’ll be doing in 10 years’ time
haven’t been invented yet, in industries that don’t yet
exist, with employers that are still at school with you,
or maybe it is you, and don’t even know that they’re
going to be tomorrow’s next great thinkers, inventers
and doers.
Tomorrow’s careers are so different from past
opportunities, who would have thought you could
make a career out of playing games, but lots of people
already have and more will.
Gamification is the science of applying typical game
playing behaviours and attributes to others areas
of life and work. A career in this industry requires
you to understand how and why humans think and
act in certain ways and then use the digital world,
augmented and virtual reality and a tonne of other
technologies to create digital and near real spaces in
which to teach or modify people’s behaviour.
You wouldn’t fly in a plane if the pilot hadn’t spent
lots of hours training in a virtual cockpit. Today many
Surgeons trial their operation on virtual patients
using virtual scalpels and instruments to make sure
that when they get to the real thing they’re ready and
know what to do and when. Today some teachers
learn to control virtual students (as if they can)
in virtual classrooms so they know what to do
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