How to prepare your kids for a future that looks radically different from your past.
Sixty-five percent.
That’s the percentage of kids entering elementary school today who will work in jobs that don’t exist yet. It’s hard for us to wrap our heads around, isn’t it? Like trying to train for a sport without knowing the rules, the shape of the field, or whether or not it’s even played with a ball. This is the future our kids are hurtling towards. Which means, they need to be building “future-proof” skills.
The familiar formula for success — study hard, get a degree, work the same job for 40 years, retire somewhere warm — is collapsing beneath the weight of technology and automation. Employees will no longer be rewarded for how long they’ve worked at the same firm or how high they’ve climbed the corporate ladder. Instead, their value will stem from their adaptability, their ingenuity, their resilience. The likelihood of your kid working the same job for forty years is low. Extremely low. Success isn’t just about working hard anymore. It’s about working smart.
So, what does that look like in the classroom? How do we prepare kids for volatile job markets and unstable careers? How do we ready kids for jobs that don’t even exist yet?
