Ireland is Slowing Down Are You

If we all sat in the corner complaining about our state of affairs then we would still be living in mud huts.  Despite the Irish Times headline today   that Ireland was facing a slowdown I firmly believe that now is  the time for people to grow and expand and develop. The fact however is that it isn't easy and it does involve risk.  If you had started a plumbing apprentice ship in 2000 you would have thought that you would be busy with work for the next ten years.  Now tradesmen are just scraping by.

You need to look to the future and see what it is what is going on in the market and train at least your learning and CV in that direction.  Look closely for instance at the youth of today.  What do they do?  More and more they are doing organised sports and using social media.  So is there a market for a tool for managing parents schedules easily.  Could you do something creative with Google Docs for a family so that they all know where they are  meant to be on a specific week.  You can do this already but why think of something that could be used like Teamer.net that it could be integrated into a schedule.

Sounds Too Complicated to Me

OK maybe this isn't your interest but as i mentioned in a previous post the workplace of tomorrow is going to be different.  People will be more mobile irrespective of their jobs and this mobility will be through the internet.  Many sales people never even visit the home office and can do every single piece of their work on the road in a cafe or lying in bed in the morning.  Think this is a joke.  I am writing this blog post in the shower.  Well I am not but I am writing it in my email tool and emailing it to Blogger and it will be posted straight away.  I do not have to have  a browser open Ï just create.

I Don't Use Computers

Short and simple you had better start learning.  The moire you can up skill on this front the better and not just ECDL but things like databases and crunching data and how to send mass emails using software and basic CMS usage..  The internet is going to dominate the market and it will be the first tool of choice when people log in to work in the mornings - it has been mine for many years -

Get ready and start working!