The future of work is a funny thing. When people are asked about the future of work it could mean different things to each person. Some might say the future of work is how they personally see their future career, what positions they will be in with different companies while others take the this as how jobs will be in the future. Working from home, working conditions and what jobs might be automated. For me its more on the lines of how working in the future will go given our ever-changing world and technology. This couldn’t be more prevalent in the last 2 years with the covid 19 outbreak.
My view on what the future of work means to me leaves me in a weird state of absolutely not knowing what I want to do in the future, I mean I do put some of the blame on my commerce teacher back in year 9 who put it quite bluntly for everyone in the class. Most people don’t know what they want to do and in this day in age most of us will go through 3 or so different careers. And that was coming from a guy who went from working retail, to sales at Telstra to business manager and finally to a teacher where he currently still teaches. This not knowing of what I want to do in the future has led me to make more goals within the jobs and companies which I hold compared to full career aspirations for example, moving from team member to team leader in my retail position. Currently I work at a call centre for a major drinks provider where I am involved in the complaints side customers when they have issues with our poducts, machines and deliveries however im already looking upward to moving into a sales representative position.
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