It's Spring ... Now What?

Spring means many things to many people. However, for 17- 18 year olds around the world the meaning can’t be clearer ~ it’s the end of their formal education.

Call them “graduates” as we do in America ~ or “school-leavers” as the Europeans say ~ young people finishing up secondary school are now ready for the next step.

What step?

Forty years ago (“did I ever mention … when I was a boy”) the hierarchy of choices probably looked like this:

Packing off to college or university (stressfully)
Joining the workforce
Dropping out to visit Europe, Persia or Kathmandu
Enlisting in the military (reluctantly ~ remember Viet Nam?)
Finding a wife or husband and getting married

Today the options probably look like this:

Making a clever You Tube video and pocketing a quick million
Writing a clever software program and pocketing a quick million
Joining the tech workforce directly from school without the stress of college or university
Packing off to college or university (stressfully)
Joining the non-tech workforce
Enlisting in the military (reluctantly ~ remember Iraq?)
Finding a wife or husband and getting married

Given the vast changes in communications and social dynamics around the world ~ the next step is trickier than ever.

More on this later.