I saw yet another “learn a skill, be your own boss” advert. The advert went on to list various skills from baking of cakes to hairdressing to tailoring. As I absorbed the information supplied by the advert, something dawned on me: I fear that we will soon have more hair dressers than heads to fix. More shoemakers than legs to fit them into and the whole neighbourhood might just switch to trade-by-barter: fix my hair and I fix your shoes.
I am convinced that we have the potentials to do much more than we are currently doing, but we are like giants that have been placed on grasshopper diet. The junk information we have been exposed to have reduced us from first class to junk class.
Is there a better way?
Yes, definitely! We need to inspire people and nurture them to reach within and build things that are serious. We need to explain to people that learning a skill does not automatically make you an Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship and skill acquisition are 2 different things entirely. But most importantly, I am an advocate of hi-tech, hi-growth entrepreneurship, the kind that creates industries that creates the ecosystem to create and sustain hundreds of thousands of jobs. Learning how to bake cakes or barb people’s hair cannot create these kind of results.
It is not about been your own boss, it is about doing something that really counts with your life.
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