Why Is It Important To Work In The Real World?

Jobs are gone! People all around the world need jobs to provide for their families or themselves, but so many jobs are now unavailable due to the fact that technology is so advanced it replaces many skilled workers. Machines provides the same quality of work, if not better, and for less cost, not only that but use less time to perform and do more service. In past times having a high level of education and experience could certainly get you a job, but now not even a degree can guarantee you to a job position. People need to adapt to the world we are living and understand how the economy is working and more importantly learn to see what jobs people can excel in without getting replaced by machines. How can we do this? It starts with the education that is being provided to students. Teachers of public schools need to better prepare students for the near future in which many job opportunities will soon no longer exist. Students need to be taught about the jobs that are still available and the …show more content…
blinder, Andy Kessler, and Paul Krugman all believe there should be changes in education to inform students about jobs in the real world. Blinder and Kessler both have two types of examples that would show the types of workers would be replaced and who would stay stable. Blinder explains that people should get work in personal services because “their work requires close physical proximity to customers” (1253). While Kessler also names two types of workers in our economy the “creators” and “servers” thus explaining that servers “will be replaced by machines” (1255). In Blinders summary article “he urges educators to prepare the future workforce by anticipating the needs of personal service economy and redesigning classroom instruction and vocational training” (1253). Concluding that it involves certain skills for jobs now a days because “it no longer true that having a college degree guarantees that you will get a true job” (Krugman,