Career Future Plans & Technological Trends

People who work or rather, people generally usually get asked what their future plans are, most times they don’t know. When you get asked what your future plan is and you reply with “I don’t know” you get described as the unserious type or rather the No future plan person.

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Life generally has taught me to have an open mind and lower my expectations. It’s good to have a plan but having an open mind makes you flexible and adjustable to changes. When it comes to careers, I believe people should learn to have an open mind. This is because, before Covid-19, lots of people had a future plan regarding their careers and ways of executing those plans.

Three years ago no one thought that working from home was going to be considered a norm today. I bet lots of people had a different plan on how their careers will be three years later, but 1 year after the plan was made, we had the Covid-19 pandemics and everyone in the world was placed on mandatory lock down. Before COVID-19 I had the zoom meeting app on my phone but used it only twice, but during and after the lockdown, the zoom app became my most used app on my phone. The zoom app got lots of downloads which were not expected.

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This made me think that having a career future fixed plan should be considered risky, but having a career future flexible plan should be considered safer.

While creating a future career plan learn that anything can happen, we can learn from these companies adopting crypto and embracing NFTs into their plans. If you look at the technological trends being adopted today, most of the companies adopting them never had them in their plans five years ago. Look at crypto, look at NFTs, in 2021 we started seeing lots of companies add bitcoin to their balance sheet and publicly holding it as their valuable digital asset.

Before the mainstream acceptance and adoption of Amazon or any online shop, lots of people had plans of becoming one of the greatest librarian, while traditional physical librarians still exist, we can’t help but notice the amount of people that gotten massive success from moving to the digital shop or rather e-commerce. But right now, you hardly find people talk about physical library or becoming a librarian when you can buy or get books online. Five years before Amazon became blown, I am sure nobody had it in their plan that someday they would be having an online shop where they sell their stuff.

Look at blockchain today, 2 years ago I didn’t know what blockchain was or what it meant, but look at everyone talking about blockchain. I once considered studying blockchain if it’s possible. While other companies or rather other people go with the trend and like to be flexible about it, other people like to ignore it. I don’t know if this should be considered healthy or prideful? According to them, they like to maintain the culture and tradition of their business, is that really right for their career and business?

Instead of worrying about not joining the trending or creating a possible five year plan for your career, why not dedicate that time into planning to learn new things that can possible affect your career in 3 years time. This is the reason most banks dislike crypto, blockchain and DEFIs. Which is unwise, instead of hating on these, it’s wise they learn to implement or adopt it into their banking system to help them stay relevant in their business and career.

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