I don’t like the question we ask kids, “what are you going to be when you grow up?”. It would be fine if the underlying question wasn’t “how are you going to earn money?”. They are fundamentally different questions. One is existential and the other is a financing problem. Not all ideas are good business ideas. Not all good business ideas are good ideas. Money is made by solving quantifiable problems in containers. Who we “are” shouldn’t be confined by such pragmatic constraints. Solving problems relies on flexible skills. Being able to clearly articulate problems. To collect and analyse information, and be able to present solutions. To read and write... both words and numbers. These skills are required whatever the problem is. They do not define you. The price of solving problems changes with supply and demand, and is not connected to your value and identity. Price is not value. Salary is not worth. You are not your job. Financing the things that really matter requires capital, skills & knowledge, and containers. But it is what matters to us, that make us who we are.
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