Need a job? Invent It.

When Thomas Friedman writes, I usually listen and his Op-Ed piece in Sunday's NYTimes titled "Need a Job? Invent It" was particularly intriguing. It is hard to find a job in this economy, much less a job that you like or dare I say love, so why not create one for youself? Below is an excerpt from the article. The link above will take you to the full story.


"When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner’s argument in his book “Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World” is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently “adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.”