“THE JOBS OF TOMORROW HAVEN'T BEEN INVENTED
YET.” This, however true, is an old story because, really, fact is those jobs are here now and
sending a lot of parents on retrenchment in industries around the world and especially here in Nigeria.
Perturbed what the future holds? Or what this portends, economically, in the
short and long term? No need to be, JUST BRACE UP!
The intention is not to push many, hitherto
employed people, back into the labour market (if there is and will be a thing
as such in the near future). It is for us to learn the new ways of doing our
current or old jobs. Robots aren’t certainly gonna take our place on our desks;
because those robots need you to make them work, they need you to give them the
instructions required for them to perform with ease those tasks you strenuously
perform (at your desk). Those programs need you to get them started and
maintained, those processes need you to write codes to simplify their operation/execution,
that industry needs you to device newer ways to improve efficiency and
capacity.
It is even going to get smarter.
Question is: If you didn’t, haven’t or can’t keep up with the trend should your
kids also be left aloof? The attitude I suppose should be “my child had better
learn to code.” As software has redefined a range of industries and
professions, many parents around the globe are rushing to make sure their
children learn the building blocks of computer programming. DON’T BE LEFT OUT.
I was thrilled when only recently a
sibling of mine, I presumed saw some of my posts, called me up with a question
regarding how to go about a certain programming language code. This is someone
who ordinarily wouldn’t toe that path, but seeing the necessity of being
educated, even if not professionally, in computer programming, I believe has
taken to learning programming. Now this gives me much joy.
A lot won’t be the way they are now
in the near future just as things were not the way they now some years back.
Countries are giving themselves deadline to stop using some old stuff and
switch to better (electronic) means of doing those same things. That means
those ones who are still stuck on the old ways by then will be kicked out to
make room for those who took advantage of the opportunity. In the case of UK
and France, mechanics who refuse to learn how to fix electric cars by 2040 have
already thrown themselves out of job. Mechanics who fix Volvo cars who don’t
switch technology by 2019 will find themselves scrambling for scraps in
dumpsites as there will no longer be production of diesel or petrol Volvo cars
by then.
Did I hear someone say “that’s for
those people naa?” Well, I’m sorry, u may need to find time to look at some
basic world economic indices. For one, the ban of petrol and diesel vehicles
renders our oil here in Nigeria more or less useless? Or can someone mention
ten products of refined crude produced from scratch to finish here in Nigeria?
If some of our major customers in the crude oil market are gone, and many more
will; what next? The economy is threatened. However with adequate manpower with
the required skill sets to drive an economy without oil and that gives them
leverage to work anywhere in the world like you find in the IT world, the
economy will still be stable with enough forex to remain relevant in the global
economy.
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