If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Straight To The Bottom | Seth Godin
By Daniel Miessler on January 20th, 2012: Tagged as Business
“For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired,” says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they’re told, there’s some kind of safety net, or pension plan that’s waiting for them. But the days when people were able to get above average pay for average work are over.
If you’re the average person out there doing average work, there’s going to be someone else out there doing the exact same thing as you, but cheaper. Now that the industrial economy is over, you should forget about doing things just because it’s assigned to you, or “never mind the race to the top, you’ll be racing to the bottom.”
However, if you’re different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more, Godin says.
This. Stop waiting for the jobs to come back. If you’re not exceptional, they’ll be filled by people overseas.


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