To him, the virtual guarantee of future work was one of the career's most appealing attributes. "If you had told me I would be a successful nature photographer or landscape photographer, I would have done it in a heartbeat," he says. "But that's not a sure thing. I knew I was good at math and I could apply those skills and get rewarded for it."Got news for you, kid...there is NO SUCH THING as a "guarantee" of future work. You live by your wits, guts and drive. If you want a "guarantee of future work," get a government job. You'll be miserable and hate your lazy co-workers, you'll hate the government level system, but it's a steady paycheck.
If I'd been assured I would get a CEO job and get a hundred million dollar salary, I would have done it in a heartbeat, too.
No guarantees in any field these days.
But hair always grows so barbers will probably always have work, own the shop so you get money from those cutting hair in your shop as well as those heads you trim.
Or become a barber or cook.
Anything you create is stolen these days. And not just by downloaders, billion dollar corporations are doing it at every turn as well.
And any degreed field can be outsourced, or you can be “put out to pasture” at age 40 for younger and cheaper workers.
And in the medical profession we are seeing calls for capping salaries.
Frankly, as someone born in the last year of the Baby Boom, I chose engineering as a major because I figured that it would be useful in paying bills after my Army career. Choosing to pay one's bills on time rather than run up stupid-levels of debt to take a job with scant monetary reward is pragmatic.
And frankly, our university "system" is a bloated and corrupt racket overcharging most students for dubious gains and indoctrinating them in Libtard nonsense (I am looking at YOU Oberlin College).
“Gen Zs are Anxious, Entrepreneurial and Determined to Avoid Their Predecessor’s Mistakes”
I’m glad we are at the end of the alphabet with these stupid generational labels. But I won’t get my hopes up, they’ll probably start with the Greek alphabet next.
Is it me or do generations seem to come along every five or ten years these days?