Getting Real Skills, in Real Ways

How do you make good jobs, good skills and not-meaningless fame come to you?

Yes, that is three birds for one stone. Degrees, diplomas and certificates can help. But there is a faster, cheaper, easier, more threatening (more reliable) option. Just start and finish a project( or product ) that wins real customers, living their real lives in real markets.

Proof that It Works

This is how waiters, shoe repair men, and car-number plate painters get thier jobs.

By the way, this is also how the poorly-paid, lowly miserable Einstein won a physics Nobel Prize and became a professor. Also how a restaurant manager Karry Mullis won a chemistry Nobel Prize and became a highly-paid researcher. Also how a Subway worker, a train station worker discovered a new way to calculate prime numbers and became a professor.

Between these janitors and those Nobel Prize winners, there are lots of unlucky, unhappy folks who rose. Like JB Strauble who got a big job at Tesla. Like Anthony Levandowsky who Goolge and Uber fought to employ. Like Luckey who Facebook acqui-hired for Oculus VR games. And a million more examples ...

Proof that It's Easy

You build on previous inventions, discoveries, innovations and technologies.

You can hire or team up with experts.

Away from classrooms, you are free to experiment, free to fail, free to try unconventional approaches.

See such learning in action at   candopi.com.

Job Hunting and Resolving / Transcending Paradoxes

Bruce Lee got both strength and speed. 

The British Mosquito fighter plane during the Second World War: both safety/protection and speed. 

The Polynesian catamaran: both stability and speed. 

How can they get both?

Now your turn: give your potential employers BOTH more value AND less risk!

Here is one idea to give value at less risk to the employer:















It's an amazing book for job hunters, full of neat and nice tricks and ideas.

Passion Gets You the Jobs? Only In America?

I wonder if this idea would get you into trouble in some cultures. There, the interviewers would think you are arrogant or crazy or both.

Job Hunting and Re-invention by New Perception

To reinvent yourself for new jobs and opportunities, you need to see things anew. If not by your own eyes, by some borrowed eyes.  I learn a lot from this fantastic book.

Job Hunting and Re-invention

If you feel your options are limited, try the fiction-writer's lens. This fantastic book says it all.

Young Steve Jobs's Business Acumen

Wozniak (Apple co-founder) wanted to give his design away so that other people could build their own personal computer.

Jobs knew people were either too busy or not smart enough to do so. He knew they would pay for convenience.

And Paul Terrell, the owner of a computer store, also knew that. That's Steve Jobs's genius and savvy.

Over-Automation and Over-AI

A few months back, Elon Musk admitted that production delays at Tesla factories were down to their attempt to automate too much too soon.

Here in this story, the pilots had to fight their own in-flight software. The software read wrongly that the plane was rising too steeply and corrected the "error" by diving the plane too steeply too. The pilots tried to over-ride the software with lots of difficulty.























Here I see no point to plug into my web app. ( candopi.com ). 

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