Knowledge economy/Balance is restored.

experiMental

Here is something I came across recently.

The Young Scientist Competition introduced a scheme for secondary school students to start their own businesses based on their idea. I'm in DIT Bolton Street, and as part of the course, I have to come up with a business idea, complete with a full-blown business plan, and also attend workshops on top of this, outside college hours and a lot of continuous assessment work in unrelated subjects. This part is incredibly stressful, because if I will fail it, then it would be very hard for me to progress to my "final" year.

I just wonder whether the college is trying to instill economic reality in students or is it trying to get rid of people?

So in Third World, people will have to work all their waking hours in a menial job to survive, while in Developed Countries, people will have to plod through economic statistics for a similar amount of time in order to convince some investor that their business plan will work? Also on top of this, they will have to solve incredibly complex problems in their business area, because they have to "innovate" to survive.

If this is the case, the balance between third world and first world is restored, because in both instances, people will have no life, and little rest, wich is not necessarily healhy.

Already in my college, some people who can't handle stress flip out and it is incredibly difficult to watch this. I'm hearing more and more that the government is saying that "more people need to start their enterprise to earn a living", or something like that.

If this will be the reality of workplace, this will be hell.

Maybe the government has unrealistic expectations from its citizens, and it's just not thinking enough, if it is asking the citizens to do all the thinking for it. It is cutting jobs, and banks are less willing to give capital to start-up businesses in certain areas. Things are not adding up from my point of view.

Is this what many of you are finding?

Leonid

Your post is very disjointed, you mention the young scientist competition yet don't tie it in with the rest of your post. Anyway, the winners of that competition usually have amazing ideas that can carry themselves business-wise, so the government scheme is probably used to best exploit the ideas for the national interest. Your point on the third world is dubious and highly insulting to people in developing countries.

tja

There is nothing out of the ordinary with that assignment. If you can't handle conducting some research and writing a business plan, you'll never be able to handle writing a thesis in your final year. This is what the college is preparing you for. And yes they may well be trying to get rid of people namely, those not up to the standard.

This may surprise you, but you do not have a right to automaticaly complete your course, you have to earn the right to progress. Its exactly the same in the 'real world' - only the working environment will be much tougher.

I'm ignoring your other rambling nonsense. Suck it up and get on with it.

experiMental

tja wrote: »

There is nothing out of the ordinary with that assignment. If you can't handle conducting some research and writing a business plan, you'll never be able to handle writing a thesis in your final year.

This may surprise you, but you do not have a right to automaticaly complete your course, you have to earn the right to progress. Its exactly the same in the 'real world' - only the working environment will be much tougher.

That response made me feel much better.

Maybe it's time to close this thread, and I will leave it to the moderators.

DubTony

The current economy will result in a performance based remuneration system for years to come. Provide a good service or product and be rewarded. You'll be paid for what you produce, as opposed to what you are "supposed" to earn.

This has been the case in the construction industry for a few years now. Many tradesmen who worked for construction companies were told that they'd become self-employed contractors and would therefore look after their own taxes etc. More and more people are being employed on short-term contracts and on commission only basis. Never mind first world and third world. Watch out for brave new world, where only the strongest and toughest will survive.

Greenmachine

If you want the thread closed. Contact a Mod directly yourself no-one else is going to do that for you. We are all so busy slaving ourselfs away.