Looking forward, we workers need to be proactively looking at where else could your next job come from. Here are some ideas:
- Health care and education appear to hold promise
- And our aging population is likely to create opportunities as society's needs and preferences change.
The key to finding the jobs of the future will be knowing where to look
"The real question is, What's the next big thing, and what's going to be the big moneymaker?" Cloud computing? Nanotechnology? Genomics? The answer will come from the companies that entrepreneurs can create — and destroy — more easily than ever before, because the cost of start-ups is dropping rapidly.
Richard Freeman, director of the labor studies program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, says that "these really sharp, aggressive, Harvard-type students doing entrepreneurship, forming new businesses ... would be the best thing that could happen to this economy."
