Billie the Lucas corporations behaviour is common among the short sighted and unimaginative.
That is one reason I moved off the direct corporate ladder into the consultancy role. I did not tie myself to their short sighted views and style. The world is not a perfect place, expect the imperfections. I set myself up with a job helping to remove them.

Billie, without knowing you better, it is hard to be specific

Talk to a career planner – I did
A good planner will help you work out what you need to do to achieve what you want.
Try to work with an A plan, B plan and C plan. Do not put all your efforts into just one opportunity, select things which utilise as well as expand on your historic skills base if possible and may also include things you are personally passionate about.

I have 3 plans all of which work for me, at different levels.

Billie, the limit to your own opportunity is between your ears and that is your own imagination. Find something you can do better than other people and help those other people improve their lives by supplying your superior skill in that particular area.

email me through Graham Young if you wish

Tubley – I have visited Queensland. I have no doubt, your local knowledge is superior to mine. It is a fact. As far as Melbourne is concerned, I “live” what you “looked at” and have superior knowledge to you. Pretend all you want but denial of that obvious reality is the province of the deluded.

As for “loyalty to class” that’s a hoot.

I never think about “class”, “classes” or my place in them. My socio-economic grouping, on today’s classifications, is “1”.
Anyone who measures themselves (as you obviously do) and others on such a banal parameter as “class” is stuck in the past and restricting their personal growth and development opportunity by visualising themselves being constrained to a negative and artificial labelling system.
Get with the program tubley, see people as individuals and you will transcend all this “class” rubbish.

Col Rouge,you spend to much time doing postings. None of them adding any matters of substance to the debate. It is time to move out into the world. Become the 1 you dream of. Imagine all that extra time to build your wealth, if only you can resist the urge to constantly remind Online posters of your magnificence. Go Col Go, theres millions to be made out there. You will never convince those Union loving lefty loons of the joys of individualism. Give up trying. Get out there, maxamise your income,minimise your tax, and give a little to charity,just in case God exists. Go for it Col,good luck and god bless.

Hedgehog…

Good post – your use of positive encouragement is refreshing.

Being the magnificent economist he is, Col might be able to optimise his opportunity to gain more money by ignoring those who he so blatantly despises.

Col…

You have used groupings on so many occasions on this forum and now you preach individualism? I am almost laughing right now.

It is nice to realise that some other disputants understand a difference between particularity and longevity of processes, of which “nothing can be developed from vacuum” is a very notion.

Being No1 in own eyes helps team playing a little – and sounds as a weak excuse on all merits.

Thanks, Col, now I understand.

'Anyone who measures themselves (as you obviously do) and others on such a banal parameter as “class” is stuck in the past and restricting their personal growth and development opportunity by visualising themselves being constrained to a negative and artificial labelling system.'

As, like you, an immigrant from the UK, I'd love to hear your accent. Your words have the whiff of special pleading. Not to mention meaningless self-help jargon. If it works for you, well and good, but your form of Thatcherite individualism can never be a universal panacea. 'There is no such thing as society' is one of the most asinine statements of all time. No society equals no law, no commerce, no education. Presumably you're not that rugged an individualist, and Mrs Thatcher demonstrably wasn't.

i'm already university educated lawyer, biologist, educator and computer scientist/technologist. that already has employers going boggle-eyed.

"we don't know what to do with you"

i'm working on a business plan for my own business. if i can't join'em perhaps i can try to beat'em ...

my point still holds though. being educated and keen isn't enough. nor are 'incentives' ... there has to be a real will out in employer-land to actually shift from their comfort zones a little.

so much talk about "knowledge-based economy" and "creative-blah" ... not enough actual doing of either.