How Do You Build a Career When Professions Keep Changing?

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekWork, profession, and career pathKarma, free will, and causalityCause and effectArtificial intelligence and technologyLifelong self-education

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Do you need to react to the changes happening around you?
• 04:24Does everyone need to learn a technology profession?
• 07:47A distorted view of your profession in the age of technology
• 09:25Causes and consequences in professional development
• 17:22Two important points of reference when choosing your next step
• 20:33How to relate to your own professional work
• 22:55Building strategies in your professional life
• 29:29What to do when you don’t know what to learn

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• 03:36

  A genuinely important question arises: if someone is fifty now, do they need to learn something? If they’re forty, do they need to learn? And if they’re thirty, do they need to learn?

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:27

  Because, basically, a person’s karmic experience of life has, as it were, concluded by forty-eight.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 14:45

  I went to study programming, for example, without understanding at all why that was what I should study.

  Alexander Volchek

• 15:44

  If you could put me back into that child, choosing where to direct his attention and what to do, I don’t know what I would now advise myself to do.

  Alexander Volchek

• 16:36

  I would have driven around stores checking that Pepsi-Cola was displayed properly, because it was Pepsi.

  Alexander Volchek