Jobs Don't Have Futures

How many times have you heard someone say, "There's no future in this job." Isn't it amazing that generation after generation, the majority of people never seem to get it? Do you know what causes it? It's caused by people who know how to talk, but little else, passing their well intended but misguided and uneducated point of view down to their children and associates.

It's too bad there isn't an intelligence test given as one of the requirements for a marriage license.

Not that we should expect young people getting married to know a great deal at that stage of their lives; none of us did. But at least they should want to learn so that they can handle the responsibility of passing good information along to their children, instead of misguided beliefs.
There is no such thing as a job with or without a future. A job is a condition, a circumstance, and nothing more. A job is neither good nor bad. It's what we do with a job that makes it good; that gives it a future or keeps us from having one.

Jobs don't have futures, people do!

We are living in a different in the Information Age. A time of unprecedented change. There is no job security anymore. There is no such thing as; "get a good education so you can get a good job, and then you'll be set for life."

In a recent article, the Harvard Business Review found that a college graduate today will have had an average of 13 to 14 different jobs by the time he or she retires. In contrast to the Industrial Age where a college graduate would have had only 1 or 2 jobs during his or her working lifetime.

Instead of looking at this statistic in fear. You need to look at this as a wonderful opportunity to learn. Every job you ever have holds a wealth of opportunity to learn new and valuable things for your future. Things that cannot be learned from school or book alone.

We have to change our attitude in the way we look at a job. Instead of looking at it as a "job that has no future" we need to look at from the standpoint of, "what can I learn from this job that will help me reach my goal." Every job you have should be used as a stepping stone to a better position for yourself in the future. As part of your master plan to reach your goal.

I have a good friend who a successful entrepreneur and owns six businesses. He has done this by working for each of the companies he now owns. He did it by taking a position in a company and learning everything he possibly could learn about the business and making valuable contributions that made every business he worked for more successful and profitable. Then he would make the owner an offer to become a partner or buy the business out right.

You see, my friend never had the opportunity to go to college, but he had an ultimate goal, which was to be a successful entrepreneur. So he saw every job not as a dead end, but as learning experience and stepping stone toward his ultimate goal. You can too!

Jobs don't have futures, people do! This is the reality of today. This is what parents need to be passing down to their children.