Comments for Daniel Waldman http://danielwaldman.com Daniel Waldman, a web-savvy PR guy with a passion for strategy and writing. Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:15:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Jan Baum http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-527 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:15:18 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-527 I’m a college professor who gives a damn, and I have for 17 years. Conversation with my students this semester: it seems as though you are not reading the project sheets [confirmation], you aren’t following the steps outlined [confirmation] or the dates assigned for each step of the project [confirmed]. And I should not be structuring the projects so tightly for them in the first place. They all have a high school education and are native english speakers…..no motivation but they confirmed they expect an A. Education in this country is in a DEEP, complex hole that even motivated, entrepreneurial, informed professors can overcome….so what do motivated, entrepreneurial, informed professors do? continue to babysit? I think not because they are *motivated, entrepreneurial, and want to be informed*. Wake up America.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Jan Baum http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-526 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:10:25 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-526 Agree, Justin. and there is a long history of this. I am sad to say that America will only wake up when we are bleeding; we are arrogant and self-confident in our ignorance. What happened to the greatness that was/that made America? I’d like to form a coalition of thinkers and ‘act-ers’. Great article front page of NYx yesterday on people around the world protesting traditional, conventional government structures *that are not working* and I suspect mostly young people are saying “there is nothing in this for me, you guys suck, I’m not going along”. oh, wait, isn’t that what spawned America? Let’s talk.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Daniel http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-524 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:56:52 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-524 We are the richest 3rd world country in the world.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Daniel http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-523 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:54:21 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-523 Scott, I think it depends on what you study in college and who your professors are. I studied English, and there was very little taught in terms of entrepreneurship or career. We were consumers of texts, and that’s what we were taught to do. Now, I also studied writing, and only one writing professor on the last day of my senior year talked about what to do as a writer.

Grad school was very different, as I was not only surrounded by people who were doing cool things, but the professors pushed us–and gave us the leeway–to do cool things within the scope of their class.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Scott Paley (@spaley) http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-522 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:56:01 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-522 That’s probably true for primary and secondary education. It certainly wasn’t my college experience though.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Justin Kownacki http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-521 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:43:31 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-521 Our current education system is a cross between 18 years of subsidized babysitting and a farm system for the consumer class. Many of my friends in other professions now feel compelled to get a Master’s Degree just to be competitive, because so many people have Bachelor’s Degrees now, it’s created a glut of overpriced, unmarketable talent in industries that no longer need it.

How ironic that we now need to teach our own underclass (which is 99% of us) the same lessons we’re teaching “third world” nations — how to form proactive communities, how to become entrepreneurs, etc. We’re a first world nation that’s stunningly ill-equipped to deal with the first world problems we created for ourselves.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Daniel http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-520 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:36:00 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-520 That’s fair. I think the point is that our education system, as it exists today, is designed to create consumers and not producers. And if we can’t change the way education is delivered to create people who produce things–be they physical or virtual–then we need to look at alternative avenues to bypass a broken system.

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Scott Paley (@spaley) http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-519 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:27:54 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-519 I agree with Kate – great perspective and I enjoyed this post. I intend to share it.

I agree that the best thing people can do for themselves is to create something.

The only nitpick, for me, is your minor dismissal of education. To the contrary, there is almost nothing that correlates to higher employment and bigger salaries than education level.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/whats-the-best-investment-stocks-bonds-homes-or-college/241056/

]]> Comment on The Jobs of the Future Are the Ones We Create by Kate Bladow http://danielwaldman.com/2011/09/27/the-jobs-of-the-future-are-the-ones-we-create/#comment-518 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:38:19 +0000 http://danielwaldman.com/?p=230#comment-518 Daniel – I think that this is a great perspective, but we also need to remember that to create their own business and be entrepreneurial, there need to be more supports in place that allow them to do that, too. I imagine that it’s harder living paycheck to paycheck and trying to set up a business, since you aren’t able to put even a little bit of money away to prepare for when you take the leap. – K

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