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August
14, 2008
Is Your Job Going Overseas?
Interview with Dan Pink, author
of
A Whole New Mind
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Mike
Carruthers:
If you're worried about your current job or where your next job
is coming from, you're in good company - no one really knows what
the future holds.
Dan Pink:
Ten years from now, twenty years from now a lot of the work
that people are going to be doing is going to be in professions
that don't exist in industries that haven't been invented yet.
Daniel Pink,
author of the book
A Whole New Mind, says what we do know today is…
That the sort
of work that is really in danger isn't so much a particular
profession or a particular industry but a certain kind of work
and that is work that is routine. Your job is essentially following
a set of steps and delivering a correct answer. That kind of
work is disappearing and will fully disappear from this country
- it is essentially becoming a commodity.
So in thinking
about your career, Daniel says…
People have to
be able to do work that's hard to outsource and hard to automate.
And that tends to call on a lot of these more right brain abilities
- the abilities of artistry, empathy, big picture thinking;
something that's hard to outsource and hard to automate.
Although this
may seem scary, it's part of our economic cycle and it's happened
before.
Routine manufacturing
used to be the heart of this country's economic engine - after
a certain amount of time that routine mass production work was
able to get done cheaper overseas and that's where it went.
But in general the economy did pretty darn well; I don't want
to say that it was perfect but there were new jobs that took
their place and the economy continued to grow.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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