The post-graduation plans of an entire generation of college students have been thrown up in the air. Job offers have been rescinded. Hiring has been put on hold. Businesses have closed their doors. How can our newly-minted grads compete with out-of-work professionals with fifteen years' experience?
Health and Technology
This cannot be overstated. The pandemic is going to have lasting ramifications, for at least the next decade, in how we take care of ourselves and others. The ventilator shortage has exposed critical gaps in our manufacturing capacity, gaps that a savvy entrepreneur can move in to fill, producing components currently hard to source domestically.
That strikes me as an untapped reservoir of opportunity for an enterprising young person: how do you connect all these workers with the enterprises that need their labor? And how do you make it worth it? Whether it’s a technology solution or an organizational one,is going to be the genius who manages to turn the homebound gig economy into a coordinated powerhouse, and it might as well be you!With so many of us stuck at home and facing a future of periodic lockdowns for perhaps years to come,...
These are just a few of the opportunities emerging as the pandemic reshapes daily life and the economy for the duration. There are certainly countless more for the diligent and attentive to discover. They may not be as flashy as a hot internet startup with a billion-dollar exit strategy, but those are going the way of the dodo anyway. Instead, you have the opportunity to build something that will last.
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