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The Skills Most Likely To Be In Demand
by Charles Hugh Smith, contributing editor
Monday, November 28, 2011
Executive Summary
- The New Paradigm For Job Security
- Unlocking Value By Removing Systemic ‘Friction’
- Examples of Promising Business Models
- The Skills That Will Be In High Demand
- Why Changing Your Behavior Will Be as Important as Re-Skilling
Part I: The Future Of Jobs
If you have not yet read Part I, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Part II: The Skills Most Likely To Be In Demand
The New Paradigm for Job Security
The coming decade will turn many long-standing ideas about work and employment on their heads.
For example, in the current Status Quo, inflexibility and resistance to change are the hallmarks of secure employment. Institutional employment is “guaranteed” by contracts, and institutional resistance to change is viewed as a guarantee of secure employment.
In the near future, these brittle forms of security will prove chimerical, as the very rigidity and resistance to change that characterizes institutions renders them increasingly prone to disruption and collapse. The very traits which are currently viewed as protectors of security will be revealed as the causes of insecurity. Flexibility and adaptability—what are now viewed as hallmarks of insecurity—will slowly be recognized as the sources of real security. These include flex-time, free-lance labor, small, local enterprises and self-organizing networks.
The Skills Most Likely To Be In Demand
PREVIEW by charleshughsmithThe Skills Most Likely To Be In Demand
by Charles Hugh Smith, contributing editor
Monday, November 28, 2011
Executive Summary
- The New Paradigm For Job Security
- Unlocking Value By Removing Systemic ‘Friction’
- Examples of Promising Business Models
- The Skills That Will Be In High Demand
- Why Changing Your Behavior Will Be as Important as Re-Skilling
Part I: The Future Of Jobs
If you have not yet read Part I, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Part II: The Skills Most Likely To Be In Demand
The New Paradigm for Job Security
The coming decade will turn many long-standing ideas about work and employment on their heads.
For example, in the current Status Quo, inflexibility and resistance to change are the hallmarks of secure employment. Institutional employment is “guaranteed” by contracts, and institutional resistance to change is viewed as a guarantee of secure employment.
In the near future, these brittle forms of security will prove chimerical, as the very rigidity and resistance to change that characterizes institutions renders them increasingly prone to disruption and collapse. The very traits which are currently viewed as protectors of security will be revealed as the causes of insecurity. Flexibility and adaptability—what are now viewed as hallmarks of insecurity—will slowly be recognized as the sources of real security. These include flex-time, free-lance labor, small, local enterprises and self-organizing networks.
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JW
Today we are going to be discussing worm composting and vermiculture. Using worms to eat your waste organic matter from the kitchen can be a very convenient method of making black gold. Not only do these red wigglers produce a richer soil amendment than traditional compost (higher in nitrogen, phosphorous, and potash), they make it faster than their microbial compost pile counterparts. Worm composting has a number of additional advantages over traditional composting, some of which include:
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Chris Martenson
Carolyn Baker, therapist and prominent advocate for culturing emotional preparedness in times of transition, looks to the future and sees a great many people at risk of unprecedented loss. Loss of jobs, loss of lifestyle, loss of wealth, loss of relationships – and quite possibly loss of life – as society becomes increasingly traumatized by secular economic slowdown and growing resource scarcity.
I have watched the Crash Course several times. So this is already happening dramatically and far more rapidly than anyone could have anticipated. Peak Oil, the end of money as we know it, escalating climate change – all of these will temper everything we do. This is the new normal, and there is no going back to the "old" normal. These drastic and daunting changes will invariably and unequivocally invoke enormous emotional responses in people, as they already are, in terms of fear, panic, anger, depression, despair, and in many cases off-the-charts addictions and suicides.
But Carolyn also sees unprecedented opportunity ahead for those who are mentally and emotionally prepared to meet the coming future.
What will determine who prospers and who doesn't? In her professional opinion, two things: meaning and purpose.
Carolyn Baker: Emotional Resilience Is Essential in Turbulent Times
by Chris MartensonCarolyn Baker, therapist and prominent advocate for culturing emotional preparedness in times of transition, looks to the future and sees a great many people at risk of unprecedented loss. Loss of jobs, loss of lifestyle, loss of wealth, loss of relationships – and quite possibly loss of life – as society becomes increasingly traumatized by secular economic slowdown and growing resource scarcity.
I have watched the Crash Course several times. So this is already happening dramatically and far more rapidly than anyone could have anticipated. Peak Oil, the end of money as we know it, escalating climate change – all of these will temper everything we do. This is the new normal, and there is no going back to the "old" normal. These drastic and daunting changes will invariably and unequivocally invoke enormous emotional responses in people, as they already are, in terms of fear, panic, anger, depression, despair, and in many cases off-the-charts addictions and suicides.
But Carolyn also sees unprecedented opportunity ahead for those who are mentally and emotionally prepared to meet the coming future.
What will determine who prospers and who doesn't? In her professional opinion, two things: meaning and purpose.
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Travlin
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Chris Martenson
I have recently gotten in great shape, have lost a lot of weight, and am writing this to preempt any thoughts that I may be in ill health due to a sudden and pronounced loss of weight. Not only am I healthy, I am in the best physical condition in years.
This is a before and after story.
I had been working very long hours for years following world news, preparing the Crash Course, writing the book, and running a small business essentially solo, for years. Unsurprisingly, I found myself with the sort of body one might predict for someone who sat behind a computer for up to 14 hours a day, day after day.
And then something happened.
Getting In Shape: The New Me
by Chris MartensonI have recently gotten in great shape, have lost a lot of weight, and am writing this to preempt any thoughts that I may be in ill health due to a sudden and pronounced loss of weight. Not only am I healthy, I am in the best physical condition in years.
This is a before and after story.
I had been working very long hours for years following world news, preparing the Crash Course, writing the book, and running a small business essentially solo, for years. Unsurprisingly, I found myself with the sort of body one might predict for someone who sat behind a computer for up to 14 hours a day, day after day.
And then something happened.
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