As I looked through this site, I saw that the characteristics that fit me were under the career mash person of a leader. The personal qualities of a leader involved: being organized, persuasive, audacious, resourceful, a risk-taker and lastly; a communicator. These characteristics were the closest thing to me in my opinion compared to the other types of career-mash people (innovator, builder, and problem-solver).
The description of the job of the leader was to mashup business and tech. "They use tech to lead projects and organizations to success. Leaders work with people and make change happen." Certain jobs that fit this position were: Business analyst, Project manager, Consultants, IT manager and tech entrepreneur.
I chose the job of a tech entrepreneur.It could be career mashed with business and industry knowledge. In order to be in this position, I must go to school for IT + business (e.g. BTM, MBA) and I must go to university in order to have learnt these courses. In Ontario, Carleton University and the University of Western Ontario offer a concentration in entrepreneurship.
This job is ultimately self-employed. It involves people who don't mind working for countless hours to get things done on time and with high quality. This job is for people who like to transform ideas into real-world applications. If they see something that they want to do, they don't care that people don't agree with it, they are creative and make things happen. When they have an idea, they want to make it become reality. There is no step-by-step process of this job. There is no real definition, it is a self-employed job. People who are leaders create their job. They invent what they must do, they know what they must do. With the help of others, leaders generate and lead their idea to make it real. It is not something typical, like being a teacher or a lawyer. With those jobs, there is a definition, there are ideas set out for you to accomplish. With the job of a tech entrepreneur, you are your own boss. You create the definition and you set out your own ideas. You plan your job. You work wherever and whenever.
Steve Jobs was a leader. He worked very hard to get to where he was. He began with working with apple and strived to do his best, but after being kicked out of the company, he worked even harder to start his own company. When the company realized that they needed him, they took him back and from then on Steve Jobs strived and apple boomed. He worked with others, invested and built the products that are now today iPods, iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.
Woo, shout-out to the brilliant man, Steve Jobs.
ReplyDeleteThe job of an entrepreneur sounds pretty awesome. As a Ward student, we practically are our own bosses--of units, however. Nevertheless, that's a cool career to look out for.
I like how you provided what universities in Ontario offer the programs and courses for entrepreneurship. Very useful to anyone interested in that field.
P.S. this is irrelevant to this particular post, but YAY KINA GRANNIS!! :')