ideas and careers

Ideas are the foundation on which progress is made.

Without ideas, we would not have innovations in any area of our lives. If the wheel had not been thought of, we would not be traveling. If fire had not been discovered, our species would have died long ago. The intellect is a powerful thing, but an intellect that constantly creates new ideas is an even more powerful thing.

Ideas are created by leaders, not followers. Ideas are held by managers, actors, scientists, musicians, photographers. The more ideas you have, the more control over society you have. Of course, you don't want to take over society, you want to allure them, impress them, and this will in turn, drive your success as individual. You may not even earn money or fame, but you may earn the respect of others, which in the long haul may mean a great deal more than anything else.


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Sometimes life isn't a matter of what you want to do, rather, it maybe what you have to do in order to survive.
Growing up, I wanted to be a full time musician, or artist, but I now realize in order to survive, I cannot do that profession. There are a number of variables that determine my personal outcome(this is not the same for every individual) - competition, scarcity of income in this market, lack of new creative ideas, etc.
I very well could make a career in this field, but the ease in which it would happen would be close to none and my outcome would either be extremely large, or extremely small. I wanted to own a home and eventually have a family. I knew in order to do this, music would be an extremely tough career decision to progress with. Again, all this can be done, but it takes the utmost and unrelenting dedication of the mind(a feature that many people cannot access on a daily basis).

Career options are almost like life gambling. Moving into a new century, humans want life even easier, faster, and more free. We want automation, and things to do work for us, mainly because we have become smarter. Industries that will strive this century deal with programming that help automation to occur and creating ideas and technology that will make our lives easier. See robotics, nanotechnology, IT, programming, health care, biotechnology, etc. Industries will slowly die this century, but not completely vanish. See print media, land line telephones, certain mom and pop shops that don't offer something so unique and individualistic that it cannot be replicated on a mass scale. In order to survive, you may have to choose a profession that isn't always what you want to do. This is also were you decide to balance your personal life and do the things you love to do. Choosing a career in the things you love to do may yield wonderful results and days of joy, but it also may yield days of drudgery and even a loss of interest in what was first pursued as a career.

So I tell myself daily, choose wisely, because every decision I make now in my life and career may echo years down the road.