Mike Reeves-McMillan

Putting this one under Collective Endeavour, because that’s part of what we’ll need to be good at in the future.

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Putting this one under Collective Endeavour, because that’s part of what we’ll need to be good at in the future.

I’d note that the job I do as a business analyst kind of existed (as a very specialised thing that a few people did) when I was at school, but I wasn’t aware of its existence until several years after I’d graduated from university, with a degree that theoretically doesn’t qualify me to do what I do. Fortunately, people hire me largely for the skills that are mentioned in this article.

(Laura Gibbs will enjoy this one, I think.)

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

“65 percent of children entering grade school this year (2011) will end up working in careers that haven’t even been invented yet.”

http://suhub.co/2iAwH8k

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5 responses to “Putting this one under Collective Endeavour, because that’s part of what we’ll need to be good at in the future.”

  1. Laura Gibbs Avatar
    Laura Gibbs

    Oh yes, very much!!! Thank you; I had read a little bit about the new Finnish approach, and this puts it in a good context too.

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  2. Gilmoure deTrimar Avatar
    Gilmoure deTrimar

    I’ve always worked in some form of repair/customer service. I was a mechanic, a medic (nurse and emt) and now computers. While it might seem diverse, they’re all systems and require the same bit of logic, when it comes to figuring out actual issue(s) that relate to the problem.

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  3. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar
    Mike Reeves-McMillan

    Yes, the two sides to my job are understand the problem and know enough about the tools at hand to figure out how to solve the problem.

    The first is the more important of the two.

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  4. Gilmoure deTrimar Avatar
    Gilmoure deTrimar

    Oh yeah, totally. Currently, I support scientists and engineers using our super-computers. I’m amazed when i receive a rambling question/statement that is missing any sort of coherent problem statement.

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  5. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar
    Mike Reeves-McMillan

    And I’m always pleased when someone says to me “this is what we want to achieve, for this reason; can we do that?”

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