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| Jan 12, 2010 3:25 am |
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re: re: Becoming a Modern Person - Personal Update 2009 |
John Stephen Veitch
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Thanks for the response Kenneth.
I think the point is that anyone wanting to be seen as employable in any self directed position, needs to be seen as someone who is motivated and self directing.
So it's important that you keep up your physical fitness and appearance. That you dress appropriately, that you are interested in the community about you.
It's also important that you have some sort of specialist skill. But in my own case because of a twist of fate in my life, I've been out of sinc with my peers since the age of 32. That's caused me all sorts of employment problems, I never expected and for a long time didn't understand.
I didn't do a degree at 18 or 20, I was 32 when that opportunity became available to me. I lived in a small NZ city. I studied by correspondence, among the first to do so in NZ.
I was 40 when I qualified, but there were no entry points into the workforce, for older new graduates. (At the time I was the first adult business studies graduate in my area.)
So I did some other things, all of which added to my experience, but little to my income.
I've done some market research on how people use the Internet. Those with my sort of technical knowledge and experience are at least 15 and probably 20 years younger than me. The sort of people I should be partnering with, don't see me as a potential partner, rather, they try seek to get leverage off my work. That's OK, but I need opportunity too.
That research is here:
http://www.ate.co.nz/internet/survey2009.html#ages
I think it's important to you LIFE, to keep interested and active. Those who are working as hard online as I have, are often working in a second, or third choice task, because the environment in which they live doesn't make choices one and two possible.
So what you have to do is the best you can in the environment you've got, and with the tools you've got. Within that context, you have to be a "modern person". Then, given a fair wind, things should work out OK. But that's not a guarantee.
Each of us has one life. You have to USE it. The more you give, the more you learn, the more you participate the better it is likely to be.
John Stephen Veitch; The Network Ambassador
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.co.nz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch (new win) |
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