Hi Gabriel While in the past, professionals and others generally stayed in the same 'calling' for life, increasingly today, they have other interests as well as better educational opportunities even as mature students. Some retire early to start in a fresh direction. Others stop mid-stream for an alternative line. Thus, while such movement in and out of careers is for personal interest reasons, others change because of sheer boredom or stress in a particular field. We also have to fill in the space engendered by living longer lives. This also means people may have even three quite varied careers in a lifetime.
I think there will be more of this occurring. Contemporary capitalism has increasingly made more slaves of most of us as did socialism/communism in different parts of the world in the past. Opting out of a rut is one reason for change in an occupation of course. Further, with some 200 million people on the move internationally, varied job opportunities in alternative destinations may also force people to reconsider their chances regarding jobs. I have come across medical doctors retraining as nurses in the Phillipines in order to get out to places like the UK and USA. Some of these may indeed try to get back to medicine later but this may not be easy because of the age factor. In the final analysis, there are many more alternative careers available today than ever before to the point that universities increasingly focus on transferrable skills on a range of undergraduate courses. I was surprised nobody responded to your post. I am glad I did, even if I did this on the spur of the moment. Kind Regards Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriel de Figueiredo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa History - a real-life twist > The way forward for Goa is for engineers > to administer medicine, > for accountants to grow crops, for farmers to write > software code. Goa will > progress. Funny someone should say this - I know of an engineer who graduated from Farmaguddi and who today is an eminent surgeon after graduating in medicine in Sweden. Then again, we have in Goa an eminent surgeon who turned into a politician. My work colleague and I are both geologists (I graduated from Dhempe College, my colleague from an Australian University), and both of us are production DBAs and software developers ... Life can indeed take bizarre turns. Cheers, Gabriel. ____________________________________________________ On Yahoo!7 360°: Your own space to share what you want with who you want! http://www.yahoo7.com.au/360 _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
