TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
THE 25 NEW OCCUPATIONS PROVIDING INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES
As modern humans, we are constantly bombarded by information from multiple devices and sources. Some that we seek for ourselves but often it seems to find us via those sneaky algorithms which bombard us with random facts, news, the latest gadget, health product, elixir of youth, holiday destination, dream home or desirable lifestyle.
It seems almost impossible to search for something or even just talk to someone about something without getting a cascade of ads on our connected devices in relation to exactly that.
It’s disturbing, frustrating, at times infuriating and can quickly overwhelm us. But it feels much more than that...
It may just be me, but it seems to be harder and harder to quieten the noise and cut through the clutter of what someone else wants us to see, hear, read and believe before we find what we’re really after, let alone from a source we feel we can trust.
It has me questioning what is real and true and not just that but, caught up in the vortex of data, also doubting my ability to be discerning at times.
The past 12 months has brought this clearly to my attention.
Free will plays a big part in how we engage with the world and what we pay attention to, this is influenced by what we experience in our childhood, where we develop our first layer of truth and reality. Those around us, whoever they are, however they behave and whatever their intent, have a huge bearing on how we view everything from there on.
It sets the foundation of our beliefs about what’s right and wrong, good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable and while we may adapt our view over time, many of us become anchored in our mindset because of it.
The impact is that we start looking for, and finding any evidence, however flimsy, that confirms our existing beliefs and, as a result, we see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, feel what we want to feel even though it gives us a very narrow focus of the world.
That’s our bias. We screen out, distort and ignore the bits that make us uncomfortable, particularly the bad and ugly, and pretend they don’t exist even though we know they do.
What is the impact of our ignorance, bias and lack of awareness? From a personal perspective we may kid ourselves that everything is going well in our life and that we have it all together even when cracks appear, believing that all is right and good in our/the world despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Or we may believe that our life and the world in general is chaotic and everything that could go wrong will. The truth lies somewhere in between.
What of the impact on others? How many of us have walked past someone that we don’t know and seen, heard or felt their pain; aware that something is going on for them but not acted on that awareness and passed by.
Although we can pretend we don’t know something is happening to an individual, group or an entire race or culture, and deny any supporting evidence, however compelling, part of us knows yet doesn’t act.
Call it intuition or an energetic connection or just a deep knowing, we resist it and the call to engage often because it makes us uncomfortable. There is no blame or judgment in this as I recognise it in myself; my intention is to present it as a possibility for you to explore in yourself.
What causes us to hold back and observe rather than act? It may be from fear or a need for self-protection, resisting getting involved in case it creates a problem for us or them or perhaps we are judging the person or the situation and making it mean something that fits our view of the world.
We all have access to a different knowing, not intellectual or brain-based but rather from a deeper connection with ourselves and our body’s intelligence.
We may call it intuition. We are all born with this and it gets shut down early but it’s never too late to re-connect with it and when we do, we are able to feel what’s true and what’s not.
Our body doesn’t lie so perhaps it’s time to trust what it’s telling us vs what others may have us believe. Something to ponder perhaps.
SOLAR installers, fundraisers, nurse liaisons and data scientists are some of the emerging occupations that have provided significant new job opportunities in the past decade.
The National Skills Commission has identified 22 emerging occupations across six categories – digital deepening, data analytics, emerging business practices, regulatory, health, and sustainability engineering and trades. Another three occupations are included under the category “refreshed”, as the name stays the same but the role has changed.
Many occupations may require the base skills for existing roles but the work is so different that workers require new or additional qualifications to be employed.
The commission’s report, Emerging occupations: How new skills are changing Australian jobs, states it is not an exhaustive list of emerging occupations but the new roles that have been frequently advertised in the past five years.
About half of the roles are associated with technology advances and environmental issues that have come to the fore in the community in the past decade.
The rise of various renewable energy sources, for example, to replace and complement traditional sources was requiring many traditional workers, such as electricians, to upskill to construct the infrastructure.
The number of renewable energy projects has particularly increased in the past five years, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics reporting the amount of solar energy produced has doubled, and wind energy has grown by 50 per cent, in the five years to 2018-19.
ABS Centre for Environment and Satellite Accounts director Jonathon Khoo says wind energy was found to supply more power than hydro energy for the first time on record.
“Solar energy saw record growth in 2018-19, with large-scale solar projects coming online,” he says.
Solar installer was listed as an emerging occupation under sustainability engineering and trades, along with wind turbine technician.
In the digital deepening category, digital marketing specialists, social media specialists and user experience analysts are the emerging occupations, thanks to the increased use of social media and digital technologies in the past decade.
IBIS World reports digital advertising agencies are one of five employment hot spots in coming years, particularly because of the rise of online shopping.
Senior industry analyst Suzy Oo says the attachment to smartphones, tablets and other devices is creating jobs in mobile advertising and social media marketing and management.
“This (attachment) provides a lucrative opportunity for businesses to market their products and brands through paid ads on social media platforms,” she says.
“However, developing an effective marketing campaign and remaining consistent across all media can be difficult for businesses to manage, raising the need to outsource their marketing requirements to digital advertising agencies.”
Data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, data architects and pricing analysts occupations are emerging in the data analytics field.