1993 is off and running. If it is anything like 1992 was, unrelenting
world changes will cause Geography and History teachers to have to take
a number in order to jump out of windows. They will not be alone. Other
professions will also have their share of window jumpers as we all try
to cope with change.
The misfortune and suffering world changes bring, though,
will lead to a boom in new careers and industries, and increased demand
for other professions. That my friends, leads us to the word for today,
opportunities, as in Job Opportunities.
Head Doctors and worker who make white coats and straight
jackets should have a very good year as many fail to cope. If you are a
carpenter and build padded rooms, you should be very busy in 1993. It
looks like we are going to need lots of them.
Map Makers will be especially busy as today's map becomes
tomorrow's birdcage liner. They will need tons of white-out and erasers.
If you are in those businesses, you will have lots of customers.
Technology changes have eliminated many jobs, and peace
surely has turned the termites loose on the stilts of defense workers.
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia are no more. Their demise, and the demise
of the former Soviet Union, though, gives a boost to some old
industries, and creates a need for a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Those who can use this change to create new opportunities by engaging
themselves in creative thinking and focusing their job search in
neo-progressive areas, will positively soar with eagles in a new world
economy.
Opportunities. They're everywhere! Just as new businesses
need all kinds of paraphernalia to get them up and running, so too do
new countries. The world may be short of many things, but, new countries
isn't one of them. They are appearing as fast as graffiti on New York
subway cars, and it doesn't look like the parade of them will end any
time soon.
Some of the things these countries need include national
flags, anthems, seals, and Olympic uniforms. Artists and Graphic
Designers, Snitchers and Sewers, Writers and Musicians are needed who
can create these new items. New countries also need stationary and
envelopes with new letterhead, and new phone directories. And, speaking
of directories, the phone company needs to update all those old lists of
international access codes. Somebody has to do it. Why not a new
entrepreneur?
You should be absolutely giddy if you take passport photos
for a living. Millions of people need new ones. There's enough business
for everyone and room to allow lots more people into the trade. Don't
stop at passports pictures, either. Driver licenses, national ID cards,
and prison records also have to be updated or created from scratch.
New countries have new leaders. They all need business
cards so get those presses inked up and ready to go. While you are at
it, look into starting your own mint. There is a great demand for new
money. Someone has to mint and print it.
Of course, everyone involved in waste management has to
love the changes they are seeing. All that old letterhead and all those
old cards and maps have to be disposed of in an economical and
environmentally sound manner. I'm not sure if old flags can be recycled,
but if they can, there's bunches with the hammer and sickle that are
available. Oh, by the way. The faster we get rid of all the old national
stuff, the faster we assure ourselves that we can't go back to the old
world disorder. So, fire up the incinerators, dig out the landfills, and
get those trucks rolling.
Yes, my friends, change is all around. Your old job may
have been plummeted like the hopes of Chicago Cub fans ever seeing their
team in a World Series, but keep smiling. For with change comes
opportunity and opportunity brings new challenges. New challenges bring
the new investment that leads to new jobs. Those new jobs bring that
which we want more than anything else, peace and prosperity.
And, of course, new jobs also bring that comfortable old
world disorder feeling we all know much to well - that feeling that
comes when we realize there is still more month left after the paycheck
has gone. Some things never change.
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