03-22-2007, 05:11 AM
I imagine that about 100 years ago a conversation not too different from this thread happened in places like stables and where manufacturers of buggys and buggy whips once stood.
A reality of life is that things change. Sometimes change is a good thing, sometimes, not so much. Most of the time, with change, comes opportunity. If you can adapt, you survive. If you pay attention, you survive. If you are ahead of the curve and can see and act on trends, you can do even better.
For example on the low end jobs, if you can operate a trencher (not a high skills job), you can get a decent job with any number of telcos or cable companies. As infrastructure demands improvement, there is always something out there.
Or, in an area closer to our hearts, if you were paying attention in the mid-late 1990s, you would have noticed those strange .com .net and .org thingies (called URLs) seen in television commercials and in print ads. A lot of prime realestate was secured during those days, but guess what? There is still a huge amount of opportunity out there - sometimes not always in the ways you might think... so start thinking beyond where you think today.
For one thing, think about this. Just 17 years ago this discussion would not have been possible. Today, it is commonplace for us to speak with people in all areas of the globe. There was a time when people thought, "what a great idea, but I need contacts". That is simply not a problem any more (of course, there are new issues that such global reach brings, but I'm feeling rather upbeat, so I'll chose to ignore those for now).
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A reality of life is that things change. Sometimes change is a good thing, sometimes, not so much. Most of the time, with change, comes opportunity. If you can adapt, you survive. If you pay attention, you survive. If you are ahead of the curve and can see and act on trends, you can do even better.
For example on the low end jobs, if you can operate a trencher (not a high skills job), you can get a decent job with any number of telcos or cable companies. As infrastructure demands improvement, there is always something out there.
Or, in an area closer to our hearts, if you were paying attention in the mid-late 1990s, you would have noticed those strange .com .net and .org thingies (called URLs) seen in television commercials and in print ads. A lot of prime realestate was secured during those days, but guess what? There is still a huge amount of opportunity out there - sometimes not always in the ways you might think... so start thinking beyond where you think today.
For one thing, think about this. Just 17 years ago this discussion would not have been possible. Today, it is commonplace for us to speak with people in all areas of the globe. There was a time when people thought, "what a great idea, but I need contacts". That is simply not a problem any more (of course, there are new issues that such global reach brings, but I'm feeling rather upbeat, so I'll chose to ignore those for now).
-Commerce