Do you know people over 60? Call them and tell them there are people making 6 figures playing games on the internet and talking to people they can’t even see. Now, look at their response. Is it disbelief? Laughter? Are they asking you “how” and “why” questions? For people older than the “digital generations”, working means going to the office, factory, or harbor for example, and working 8–12 hour shift. Working has a certain image and it surely doesn’t contain playing games online, chatting on some amateur radio (podcast), and creating short videos for millions of people. However, thanks to technology and human creativity, nowadays these ARE actual jobs.
Technology is 10x’ing the changes in our jobs
Every generation has different perceptions of what “a job” is. One time, a job used to be hunting mammoths, being a lamplighter, or connecting one phonecall to another. Soon we can say the same about driving taxis, working a checkout, or buying advertisement space. Changes are occurring more rapidly and that’s because technology growth is exponential.
The first recorded handwritten letter was written in 500BC. The first fax machine was built in 1881AD, which is about 2,380 years to go from the first handwritten to the first digital letter. The first-ever e-mail — the next leap in written technology…
