I've been hearing a lot of this lately: We don’t know what jobs will exist
in the future! We have to be prepared! But how do we prepare?!? We need
CREATIVE people! This is the answer. We need people who can think creatively, lead, make connections, blah blah blah.
Do we? Do we really? Or do we just want people who LOOK creative? You need to
look the part, right? Well, it’s easy to tell if someone looks creative (they've got THOSE glasses and they won't be wearing a suit), but
how do we tell if they are REALLY creative? I KNOW! Ask them some really wacky curve ball questions in an interview! Like “If you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from
scissors?” That will really sort the wheat from the chaff. The creative
thinkers just float to the top when you ask stuff like that, then you just skim
them off. Easy peasy. TOO easy! I love easy shit like that.
I don’t think we should worry so much about how to be
prepared for the jobs that don’t exist yet – I think we should worry about the
jobs that SHOULDN’T EXIST. Like jobs where you need to LOOK creative and where
giving an answer to the question "What is the square root of a banana peel?" gets you a job.
But if you REALLY ARE CREATIVE and you're worried you don't LOOK creative, there is something that will help you. TECHNOLOGY. This program will give you "a stunning personal website in minutes". Just don't use the Product Developer guy's site as an example because he has a typo in his JOB TITLE and a stupid picture of
a jetty that seems to have NO relationship to what he does - it seems
its only purpose is to make me want to JUMP OFF IT RIGHT NOW!
But who am I to talk? I'm just one of those think-y, talk-y people. Really – I should just shut up, stop criticising,
get off my arse and DO something. Like get a job. So that’s what I am doing. I’m
open to offers – but only offers that don’t come in writing – I will only
consider offers that come to me in a form I don’t even know exists
yet. You get points for creativity.
