The days of good jobs are over, right? Even with a college degree? The days of working at the same company for 30 years and retiring with a pension and gold watch are long gone. In a bewildering environment, what direction do you take? And more importantly, how do you proceed to move forward with a rewarding career? In The Era of YIPS (Your Interdisciplinary Problem Solver), self-published author Dan Cortes (www.dancortes.com) turns conventional thinking on its head. This book delivers the insight and action plan needed to get you a job. Just starting a career? Laid off? Changing careers? The...
The days of good jobs are over, right? Even with a college degree? The days of working at the same company for 30 years and retiring with a pension an...
With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value of a college degree been turned upside down? College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market. Is the assumption that higher education leads to greater prosperity no longer true? And if this is the case, how does this impact you, your children and grandchildren? The Do-It-Yourself University clearly describes the underlying dynamics at work - and, more importantly, lays out a new low-cost model for...
With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value of a college degree been turned upside down? College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980...
If you were tasked with redesigning a whole new world including money, jobs, commerce and community, what would it look like? Today's technology actually gives us the power to redesign a new world. But what is wrong with this one? For starters, rising inequality and declining opportunities in terms of jobs and starting our own businesses. This books offers a blueprint to a whole new system that offers meaningful work and the ownership of the sources of prosperity, not just for the privileged few, but for everyone. Every individual has the power to change the system for the betterment of...
If you were tasked with redesigning a whole new world including money, jobs, commerce and community, what would it look like? Today's technology actua...
Our status quo, the pyramid of wealth and power dominated by a few at the top, is crumbling. The very foundation of the status quo is crumbling and rotting away and reforms will not change that. The writing is on the wall, we have lost social mobility and opportunity, we have lost social cohesion and a shared purpose and our central banks and the state continue to do more of what has failed in the past.
Our status quo, the pyramid of wealth and power dominated by a few at the top, is crumbling. The very foundation of the status quo is crumbling and ro...
