SOCY6670 Lecture Notes - Groupon, Bitcoin, Paypal
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How to future proof yourself: create an emergency fund i. e. savings account (at least 3 month"s worth of your bills saved, diversify your skills and experience, develop and expand your social network, layoff/graduation test if do not have at least 10 people you can contact to get a job then you have failed, learn to promote yourself, develop a second income steam, workers and technology. How do we work with the machines: organizational innovation (i. e. google, facebook, etc. , creative destruction need to get comfortable with tearing down this system; people are resistant to change (i. e. make is mandatory to take one of your classes online, perfect business for the future = micromultinational. Investing in technical capital (especially in education: stem (cid:224) steam (science, technology, art, consumption & technology engineering, mathematics); need creativity, which you need to practice, consumption is changing.
