My dad recently told me to read this Businessweek series on “Where are the Jobs?”
Kinda interesting. Aside from being a defense of outsourcing, it also essentially says the days of the robot-like programmer are over. Specifically, that they might be able to outsource jobs that are routine and can be boiled down to easily repeatable tasks. It says: “Flexible, creative and good with people? You should do fine in tomorrow’s job market.”
I wonder what this means for Asian parenting strategies – you know, turn your kid into a disciplined human calculator. If that’s not the way to jobs and success anymore… what happens?
