Point your kids in the right direction.

My how times have changed in the career world. When I was a young graduate from Secretarial College at the start of the 1980′s the technology of the time included the dictaphone and the word processor. You had to learn how to use these things if you wanted to work in an office back then. Anyone remember what a Stenographer did – or was…? I bet not.

You people who work in an office; all you front desk staff – can you write in Pittman or Gregg…?

I Bet not.

Times certainly have changed. Then as the eighties rolled along came job openings for data process operators; dictaphone typists and people skilled in word processing. 

Then you had to be familiar with Excel and Lotus123 - until Bill Gates changed the way we did everything when he introduced to the world his Windows. Whatever happened to the shorthand/typist – the stenographer through all of this…?

Simply this. She/he had no choice but to keep up to date with all the changing technology. Change with the times, learn the newest skills and explore territory never before dreamed about. They had to learn how to use a computer !

There are many directions I would point my kids towards career-wise these days. One direction would be Ophthalmology seeing as so many people now spend so much time in front of a computer screen that they will be needing glasses in the future; another would be Dermatology seeing as so many people still insist on frying their skins under the hot sun thus inviting melanoma en masse.

But the other direction I would point them to – money-wise and opportunity-wise – would be the IT Industry. After all, computers rule our lives now and will continue to do so.  This is where the real money lies these days. This is also where programmes such as Cisco certification really mean something; probably more to your kids than to yourself but then what is stopping you !

Using the Cisco learning network can bring you out of the past and into the present and shoot you towards the future.

The one thing that connects the generations today is the internet; we all use it whether we like to admit it or not. We all use it for a variety of reasons – mostly for work – just as much for entertainment purposes. I never thought, just a few years back, that I would be so computer literate as I am now. I thought these things were for kids – for nothing more than a bit of fun. The home computer that is.

Now I use it all the time; at home – for work and for play. We all do.

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