Learn or leave the market

How do I find
my dream job?
Start by identifying 
your interests and your 
skills. These are inher-
ently connected. After 
all, improving your 
skills in areas that you 
find boring or tedious 
is extremely difficult.
Next, you should identify the compa-
nies and fields of work where your skills 
would be most highly appreciated. For 
instance, if you are an avid and talented 
gamer, you might consider a career 
as a programmer, game designer, 
or gaming practitioner.

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The Future of Professions. Chapter 2.
Find out where they teach these skills, as well 
as what documents and prior knowledge 
you will need to enroll in your chosen field 
of study. This way, you will get the full picture, 
ensuring that your expectations are in line 
with reality and your own abilities.
Throughout this process, continue 
to expand your horizons as much 
as you can. To get your dream job in the 
modern world, you need a wide range 
of various skill sets. Take a class to learn 
a foreign language, work on your time 
management skills, improve your 
ability to adapt to various situations, 
etc. It’s also important to research the 
top universities in your area of inter-
est, in order to make the best and most 
informed decision.

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CHAPTER 3
SELF-EDUCATION
AND HOW TO ORGANIZE IT

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 Chapter 3. Self-education And How to Organize It.
Nowadays, we all have to perform many 
different tasks. There are almost no fixed 
roles assigned to specific professions 
anymore. Sometimes it seems like 
you need to be capable of literally 
anything.
This is a result of the recent 
switch to a new society model 
that happened too quickly, just 
in a matter of decades. This model 
requires specialists to possess 
a completely new set of skills. Many 
companies even create individual devel-
opment plans for training their employees 
in all the necessary skills. Quite often, these 
plans determine what an employee needs to learn 
in order to be promoted.
Career is perceived differently now thanks to the influence of two 
factors: globalization and technology. Technology, as we already 
discussed, has automated most tasks performed by people. These 
tasks no longer require special knowledge or skills. The same tech-
nologies created a number of new professions and opened up new 
opportunities for the next generation. The rules of the labor market 
have also changed: we can no longer afford to start looking for 
a new job only when we are unhappy with our current one or when 
we no longer have it. Today’s world is a world of opportunities and 
you need always to be on the lookout for them as backup plans and 
for personal development. This has led to constant changes in the 
labor market and, as a result, ever fewer stable long-lived companies.
The lifecycle of companies significantly decreased due to the grow-
ing risks. Ordinary employees find themselves in the same situation 
as entrepreneurs: the competition is too high. Therefore, building and 
developing your career today is like developing a business. Its future 
and results are difficult to predict. There is too much information 
around us, which means that you never have enough of it — it is diffi-
cult to find something valuable and reliable in an oversaturated 

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world. There are also not enough resources for everyone. Meanwhile, 
the world keeps changing, and changing, and changing… Which 
means that we constantly need to adapt. If we cannot do this, then 
we will fall behind. Continuous learning is the key to adaptation. 
So let’s discuss this in more detail.