Great Opportunities

My daughter's internship is coming to an end later this month.  This is her second internship experience, and I am sure at the next term break, she will be doing her third stint at yet another startup.

As i reflected on the 'jobs' she has, I felt that things were so different a generation ago.  Many of us were probably taking on holiday jobs to supplement our pocket money.  In the process we learn some things and we probably don't plan to go back to these school holiday jobs as a career possibility.  There were fewer startups - in fact the term was also coined perhaps 10 odd years ago for us.

Yet this generation, they have the privilege to be attached to internship opportunities where the aim of exposure, discovery and to learn. In fact, I hope my daughter will eventually start something on her own some time in the future! So it is like, startup of her choice rather than out of necessity.

What a change in just one generation! This is also a generation that witnessed massive technological advancement - from gameboys to handphones (you can't leave home without it).  What will the next technology breakthroughs be...