(2004-06-30) Pragmatic Career Management

Dave Thomas is Framing your personal Free Agent Off Shoring risk as needing a Pragmatic investment plan. (Making A Living)

He also thinks in terms of the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition (Learning Curve) and its potential value for the overall Software Industry. We're repeatedly told that in this brave New Economy, we've all become Knowledge Worker-s. That's not good enough. Knowledge on its own is just another commodity, and commodities tend to settle in places with low costs of production. If we want to save our jobs, if we want to be paid more for what we do, we have to be more than knowledge workers. We have to parlay that knowledge into meaningful experience. We have to be Value Worker-s.