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Why Entrepreneurship Will Be the Job of the Future

September 20, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The future of work is arriving faster than anyone expected. Artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation are steadily absorbing jobs that once seemed untouchable. Entire industries are being reshaped as machines take on tasks with greater efficiency, lower cost, and tireless precision. In this shifting landscape, one profession rises above the rest as both resilient and essential: entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is more than starting a business. It is the art of creating something from nothing, of carving value out of chaos, and of directing your own destiny when traditional career paths crumble. As machines become better at executing instructions, humans will need to double down on the uniquely human capacity to imagine, to risk, and to lead. The job of the future will not be about climbing corporate ladders—it will be about building the ladders themselves.

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‘Following your passion’ is dead- Here’s what to replace it with

July 9, 2018

Following your passion presupposes that you have one. But many people don’t.

Develop a passion, don’t follow it.

It’s what kids do.

When someone in your life is asking the important “What should I do with my life?” question – have you ever told them “Just follow your passion”?

If so, please stop doing that. Yes, completely, and forever. Because it’s garbage advice. Among the worst out there, right next to the original food pyramid and playing hard to get after a date.

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What software engineers are making around the world right now

March 9, 2017

A new study published by the data science team at Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, shows why it’s becoming harder for software engineers to afford life in San Francisco, even while they make more money than their peers elsewhere in the U.S. and the world.

Based on 280,000 interview requests and job offers provided by more than 5,000 companies to 45,000 job seekers on Hired’s platform, the company’s data team has determined that the average salary for a software engineer in the Bay Area is $134,000. That’s more than software engineers anywhere in the country, through Seattle trails closely behind, paying engineers an average of $126,000. In other tech hubs, including Boston, Austin, L.A., New York, and Washington, D.C., software engineers are paid on average between $110,000 and $120,000.

Yet higher salaries don’t mean much with jaw-dropping rents and other soaring expenses associated with life in “Silicon Valley,” and San Francisco more specifically. Indeed, factoring in the cost of living, San Francisco is now one of the lowest-paying cities for software engineers, according to Hired’s lead data scientist, Jessica Kirkpatrick. According to her analysis, the $110,000 that an Austin engineer makes is the rough equivalent of being paid $198,000 in the Bay Area, considering how much further each dollar goes in the sprawling capital of Texas. The same is true of Melbourne, Australia, where software engineers are paid a comparatively low $107,000 on average, but who are making the equivalent of $150,000 in San Francisco.

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