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What will be the Future of Work?

Guest post by: Bruce Razban

Article Overview: In view of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Time Magazine and others predict that future of our work life will be substantially different! I agree that it will be different, but since I have lived this new life for fifteen years, let me tell you that it is not bad. However, we will need to become one person incorporations that have a proven, certifiable, virally marketable set of skills. All brand development, marketing and sales will need to be done by ourselves and at our own expense.

What will be the Future of Work?

By the end of 2009, several articles in Times Magazine, and other publications indicate that high unemployment compared to before will be a thing of the future. We would no longer find a lifelong employment with some huge corporation, like we used to have in the fifties and sixties. In fact there is a good possibility that major corporations will find that they have to break themselves down into smaller more agile community based companies just to compete.

This is different than what we were used to have. However being different does not mean bad.

Our universities will then have to make sure that their education is in market demand, and rather than graduating a person with a degree in accounting, now they have to prepare students with a set of modular, certifiable, and viral marketable skill sets. Universities also will have to learn to increase their activity in the continuing education since the nature of knowledge will be changing much faster than before.

Students, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, while still in high school, they will need to learn to intern, or work as volunteers in actual jobs in the industry. Without this actual experience, they may find that they are not competitive in the real industry. They must also learn to be entrepreneurs from the start!

In fact, each student has to "Incorporate" him/herself just to survive. Many investment decisions will need to be made at each step of the way. An example is youTube. In the old days, you needed the help of a major corporation to broadcast a film, or a slide show. Today, you as an individual unit can and must do it on your own. To extend this idea, imagine a company the size of GM. Let us say that instead of it having a combined logo and entity that is shared by thousands of people, it now becomes thousands of individual one person incorporation that, based on Corp to Corp invoices, work together as independent contractors.

I have lived this life for more than fifteen years now. I am an incorporated company by myself. I do my own job search; marketing, billing, accounting, and I pay myself at the end after my one man companies expenses are deducted from the earnings. I develop my own brand, my own product, my own service, and at the end I am responsible for all.

Each month, I have to put money aside for insurance, and training. Constant training becomes a way of life. With the information explosion of recent years, we have no choice but to go to Google and/or youTube, and educate ourselves with the latest in our field. We must also attend as many college courses in community colleges as needed to just keep up.

I hope you agree that the future will be different, but it will not have to be bad.

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