Can we please rethink jobs in the age of automation?

As learning creatures, we tend to pick up new things naturally, making innovation possible. And yet at a corporate job our power to innovate, to imagine is stunted by the corporate ceiling.

Should that be the case?

If we want to rethink a world for the fourth industrial revolution, we must rethink jobs. Not only will it solve the global resignation or whatever it will ensure we are relevant once the machines take over.

Oh yes! the machines will take over your jobs. But what it cant replicate so far(hopefully) is our human essence. Which is the ability to learn and innovate. And that is what jobs should be. It should not be the same old same old. Do the same thing every day.

Those days are gone and extinct. It's time to make jobs friendly for learning. Lifelong learning.

We are all thinking about if schools are relevant and if higher education still has a purpose in the 21st century, I would argue now more than ever we need it. But we need to make jobs sync with higher education.

And this is not a new argument. Many before me have called for education and purposeful jobs. But I guess it is not more relevant than ever. I want to climb in academia while being in a job. I don’t want one to stunt the other.

Let's please have better jobs where we learn, innovate and grow.