'The best way to predict the future is to create
it.'
Abraham Lincoln
Career building and personality development are
closely associated with each other. An educational degree gives us a job. But a
job is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. The end is career growth.
Job is merely an entry platform. It is up to the job holder to decide what
should be the scope and size of the role he wants to play in that platform.
The basic qualification and skill set which got us
the job will become obsolete and with that we will also become redundant. You
are aware that there is an expiry date and MRP for every medicine. After the
expiry date the MRP is meaningless even though people would have purchased the
medicine at a premium price.
This is also true of our skill and qualification.
Our Degrees and Diploma have a expiry date! When the product which was made with
our Degree and Diploma disappears from the market, our education also becomes irrelevant
and we become surplus!
It is like replacing a tree or a plant which has
outlived our purpose! A good gardener should update his garden. You are the
gardener and the garden!
Are you re-landscaping yourself? Is your education
and skill relevant today?
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com00000
