Published on 12, July, 2020
Your job/purpose hasn't been invented yet, I mean what woiuld someone like Bill Gates have done if computers hadn't been in their early mass market stages when he was a teenager? Is it possible that for some of us our "thing" is waiting to be invented?
It's certainly posible but in that case your ideal job is probably 'scientist' or 'enginear' since you will probably have to invent / make what ever your job is eventually based around. There are a few times where someone else comes along and re purposes a new technology. Vtubers for example used motion capture technology that was really developed for movies / video games. But by and large you need to be in tech or able to splash out on cutting edge tech.
Projekt melody nearly bankrupted her self buying expencive tech at the start of her career. Code Miko wrote her own vTubing softwear.
The short answer is new jobs neiches really only happen when technology advances or there is some major social legal shift. If your dream job doesn't exist yet then it's probably because:
It's also quite posible your dream job does exist it's just so obscure you didn't know it existed.
Interesting answers Peter, I think it quite possible that people's thing could be obscure or out of date, I mean what if you were a brilliant flint knapper? How would you know you had such a feel for the stone? Who would want knapped flints in this day and age. I'm afraid I didn't understand what you were talking about in your first paragraph.
Desmond, I used Bill Gates as an example of someone who's time had come, how he did it I don't know, but he did.
Mellowjian, Yes it is more likely that most of us will end up in dead end jobs that don't fulfil us on any level, but this was more of an imaginative question and exercise than a real world problem solving one.