Average is Definitely Over-13

I really enjoyed listening to Thomas Friedman explain his idea that “even good might not cut it anymore and average is definitely over.” As a student who also works part-time I see this idea more and more everyday. I am a server at Noodles and Company but we are also required to know how to do more than just serve people their food. My boss is always watching to see what we are doing and how efficient we can be at a job we’ve been doing for several months. It used to take the closing staff around forty-five minutes to close; now we are only given thirty minutes or less to do these things. We also have trainers who come in and tell us what we are doing well and what we can improve on. I know this isn’t corporate world jobs or the type of job market I want to be in when I graduate, but it is definitely a place where I see this idea that average is definitely over and how to improve myself before I enter to real-world job market. Relating back to previous posts, technology is always changing. As we graduate and enter the job market we can expect things to be different from the way they are now. Friedman’s idea that we are going to have to come up with our jobs is one that I find very interesting. Since technology is frequently changing, the way we do our daily jobs will start to change as well. It’s only a little over two years away, but I don’t even know what kind of jobs I will be looking for once I graduate. Creating my own job sounds exciting but also a little scary at the same time.