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 .
I 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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