Honestly, I don't think like stated by Paul Drucker's that "interactive service workers lack the necessary education to be "knowledge workers". Personally, I would phrase it differently: "interactive service does not require "knowledge workers" to satisfy job requirements". Drucker's statement is wrong because it draws a conclusion on a person based on the type of job that they hold without giving any importance to outside influencing factors.
For example, when I worker at Jack in the Box, most of my co-workers were Mexicans who lived across the border in Mexico and worked here during weekends to make some extra side income. Most of them held a job that definitely required them to be "knowledge workers". For example, one of them was a bank executive, other was a secretary, and other one was a air conditioning technician. These are jobs that arguably require at least some type of "knowledge workers" but just because they also work an "interactive service" job, does not mean they "lack education to be 'knowledge workers'".
It is true interactive service jobs don't require much of a "knowledge worker" to work them. The job itself is the exact same routine every day. Take orders, take them out as fast as possible, and every once in a while when there was a complaint, offer them a free cheesecake and if they were still mad, a free milkshake. In other words, I don't think it will take long until these type of jobs become completely automated, and hopefully it is soon, because they are the most stressing type of job in the world.
But back to Drucker's argument, it is wrong because it makes an assumption about the character of a person based on the type of job they hold, but like I said it undermines outside factors. The basic assumption in his argument is that jobs that require "knowledge workers" make you a better living than those who not. For this same reason, a person who has the necessary education to become a "knowledge worker" would then work at a job that requires "knowledge workers" and not at a "interactive service job". But besides the fact that a lot of "interactive service jobs" in the USA pay a lot more than some "knowledge jobs", there are many other reasons why one could have the necessary education to work a "interactive service job" while still having the education to be a "knowledge worker".
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
Blog #7: Mushfake
I believe everyone has mush faked at some point in their lives. That is because of the simple fact that we are born knowing nothing and are constantly shaping and developing existent and new skills. Whatever that skill is, whether teaching, selling, working... anything, you start knowing absolutely nothing about it and therefore you have to mush fake it! Like they say, fake it till' you make it.
A time where I mush faked before building the identity kit was at my first job tutoring my neighbor's kids for algebra and geometry. It all started with my dad telling my neighbors how great I was doing in my math class which was not the case with my neighbors. He offered to pay me $15 for every hour that I taught them. So without giving it second thought I agreed and went to my neighbors home for the first time.
I honestly did not know what to expect. I definitely had helped my own friends with their math homework and had not problem doing it, but not people who I didn't know too well like it was the case with my neighbors. I remember having a tutor once when I was in 7th grade. This guy was waaaaaaaay older than me, probably about 25 at the time I was like 12. This guy would be like a regular teacher to me, he would ask me to pay attention and get serious when I started day dreaming or so. I wondered whether me tutoring my neighbors would be more like this, or more like I taught my friends. On one side, I was the same age as my neighbors, so I would expect to feel some awkwardness if I asked him to stop playing around and do their work, I felt like I did not have that authority over them. On the other hand, I was getting paid and expected to do my job and teach them effectively.
Good thing I quickly built my identity kit. It consisted of half a friend and half a tutor. It was nothing like the tutor I had when I was in 7th grade, but also was different than helping my best friend with his math homework. We would make jokes every once in a while (something I did not do with my tutor) but also get serious and get work done.
I also think he mush faked his identity as a student... or friend? He started out as if I was his high school teacher giving him tutoring but I think he quickly noticed none of us were comfortable with that, and quickly adopted out half-friend half-tutor/student identity kits respectively.
A time where I mush faked before building the identity kit was at my first job tutoring my neighbor's kids for algebra and geometry. It all started with my dad telling my neighbors how great I was doing in my math class which was not the case with my neighbors. He offered to pay me $15 for every hour that I taught them. So without giving it second thought I agreed and went to my neighbors home for the first time.
I honestly did not know what to expect. I definitely had helped my own friends with their math homework and had not problem doing it, but not people who I didn't know too well like it was the case with my neighbors. I remember having a tutor once when I was in 7th grade. This guy was waaaaaaaay older than me, probably about 25 at the time I was like 12. This guy would be like a regular teacher to me, he would ask me to pay attention and get serious when I started day dreaming or so. I wondered whether me tutoring my neighbors would be more like this, or more like I taught my friends. On one side, I was the same age as my neighbors, so I would expect to feel some awkwardness if I asked him to stop playing around and do their work, I felt like I did not have that authority over them. On the other hand, I was getting paid and expected to do my job and teach them effectively.
Good thing I quickly built my identity kit. It consisted of half a friend and half a tutor. It was nothing like the tutor I had when I was in 7th grade, but also was different than helping my best friend with his math homework. We would make jokes every once in a while (something I did not do with my tutor) but also get serious and get work done.
I also think he mush faked his identity as a student... or friend? He started out as if I was his high school teacher giving him tutoring but I think he quickly noticed none of us were comfortable with that, and quickly adopted out half-friend half-tutor/student identity kits respectively.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Blog #6: Discourse Communities
Like professor Erin, graduation high school was not big deal for my family. The celebration included getting invited to have some dinner at my local Oggi's pizza. I remember seeing my friends get cars, lots of money or even have family members come from different continents to celebrate such achievement. My family who lives across the border didn't bother coming to my graduation, and honestly, that didn't bother me. That is because I was expected to graduate high school. Graduating high school was not an achievement but an expectation. In a case in which I had not graduated, my family had seen it as a failure. Although college requires a little (a lot) more effort than high school, I feel like graduating college won't be that big of a deal either. My family expects me to be successful.
But not all successful people graduated college (some not even high school). Like professor's Flewelling post mentioned, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did not graduated college, yet they are considered to be some of the most successful people in the world and they are the richest. But they are not exceptions, Paul Allen, Michael Dell, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison didn't graduate college either and are all considered to be billionaires.
But of course, dropping out from college won't lead to to become a billionaire. These people were already making so much money, and were so invested in their own company before graduating college that they figured time spent in college could be used wiser otherwise. Im sure not all of us have our own company or are making lots of money as of right now, so dropping out would not be the wisest of ideas. Our interest still are getting a degree so that we can prove that we can provide more value to a company than the average person can and thus get a better paying job than the average person.
But it is evident that there are people without a college degree that are more qualified to get a job in any given area than those who have put themselves through many years of college. I have a friend who is 24 years old who already owns his company and lives a more than comfortable lifestyle than the average family. He is a finance drop out. I am currently studying finance. But truth is, it is probable he is more qualified to work at a finance firm than the average college student graduating from finance. Although he would not have a way to prove that, other than showing he owns a company. But there are thousands like him out there, some may own a company, the majority might not. There are thousands of people who love to invest, dance, teach... you name it, who can learn and learn more of that topic through the internet and books that are not as expensive as college textbooks, than actual college, people that are not willing to spend $100,000 dollars to learn something that they can learn on their own. There are exceptions. As a medical student, you can't go to your local convenience store and buy a corpse to practice on. But for most majors, there is no reason you should be going to college other than your parents kicking you out of your house.
But not all successful people graduated college (some not even high school). Like professor's Flewelling post mentioned, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did not graduated college, yet they are considered to be some of the most successful people in the world and they are the richest. But they are not exceptions, Paul Allen, Michael Dell, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison didn't graduate college either and are all considered to be billionaires.
But of course, dropping out from college won't lead to to become a billionaire. These people were already making so much money, and were so invested in their own company before graduating college that they figured time spent in college could be used wiser otherwise. Im sure not all of us have our own company or are making lots of money as of right now, so dropping out would not be the wisest of ideas. Our interest still are getting a degree so that we can prove that we can provide more value to a company than the average person can and thus get a better paying job than the average person.
But it is evident that there are people without a college degree that are more qualified to get a job in any given area than those who have put themselves through many years of college. I have a friend who is 24 years old who already owns his company and lives a more than comfortable lifestyle than the average family. He is a finance drop out. I am currently studying finance. But truth is, it is probable he is more qualified to work at a finance firm than the average college student graduating from finance. Although he would not have a way to prove that, other than showing he owns a company. But there are thousands like him out there, some may own a company, the majority might not. There are thousands of people who love to invest, dance, teach... you name it, who can learn and learn more of that topic through the internet and books that are not as expensive as college textbooks, than actual college, people that are not willing to spend $100,000 dollars to learn something that they can learn on their own. There are exceptions. As a medical student, you can't go to your local convenience store and buy a corpse to practice on. But for most majors, there is no reason you should be going to college other than your parents kicking you out of your house.
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