The way we do business is changing fast and in order to keep up, your entire mentality about work has to change just as quickly.
Unfortunately, most people aren't adapting fast enough to this change in the workplace, says marketing guru Seth Godin in an interview with the Canadian talk show "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" (via Pragmatic Capitalism).
According to the founder of Squidoo.com and author or 13 books, the current "recession is a forever recession" because it's the end of the industrial age, which also means the end of the average worker.
"For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired," says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they're told, there's some kind of safety net, or pension plan that's waiting for them. But the days when people were able to get above average pay for average work are over.
If you're the average person out there doing average work, there's going to be someone else out there doing the exact same thing as you, but cheaper. Now that the industrial economy is over, you should forget about doing things just because it's assigned to you, or "never mind the race to the top, you'll be racing to the bottom."
However, if you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more, Godin says.
Instead of waiting around for someone to tell you that you matter, take your career into your own hands. In other words, don't wait for someone else to pick you and pick yourself! If you have a book, you don't need a publisher to approve you, you can publish it yourself. It's no longer about waiting for some big corporation to choose you. We've arrived at an age where you choose yourself.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/if-youre-an-average-worker-in-this-forever-recession-youre-going-straight-to-the-bottom-2012-1?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=warroom#ixzz1kJhofTkI
From http://www.businessinsider.com
Not necessary true, in fact I nearly disagree with this statement. It was hard and it is still very hard for companies in most of the Europe to fire people after they have passed probation period. And even then, when you are made redundant, government will take care of you to a certain extent. However, in one way it is true, simply because there is only so much work places in the world, and automation will do its job in replacing us with robots, etc. Population of the world increases DRAMATICALLY year to year, where we all going to work? Competition will be mental!
ReplyDeleteProbably in 10 more years you would have to be the best of the best otherwise maybe life would look like surviving...