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Photo by Rob Potter on Unsplash I keep on meeting individuals and companies who are constantly looking for opportunities and candidates who are matching there criteria of a good job and or an opportunity . With the advent of end of year and the new year the feelings are amplified more since there are holidays for some of you and others are in the middle of there career thinking about what change happening in coming new year . if you look at the scenario with respect to remote workers and free and open source workers yes now a days i see these terms are used analogous what we tend to forget is New year and so called New year day is just another day with a new born hope for both the individuals and companies in search of better people and better jobs. Since the Jobs markets are going to shrink with every coming year and now the markets have further shrunk with the advent of computers taking over lots of jobs , we will continue to see this trend in the coming years. While that is happening we are still missing on the point and the hope i gave lots of my readers in the title of this article :-) Yes the jobs are there and to me the very definition of Job it self has to be redefined in this century , while there are trends of Globalization and Slave economy of the 21st century growing manifold there are few who have choosed to live a Nomadic life with not much changed to the way they live and work. Just to remind everyone its the 21st century we are living in and i dreamt of computers and networks to ease some of the pains of travels to office and give humans the solace of working from anywhere , it has happened to certain extent but still we have the old and new world economy is a state of flux and ultimately the new economy will take over the old one, just like what has happened in the industrial age when many jobs were created and the old jobs were taken over by new ones. I look at the New Year with the same hope as like any other day of the year, its just that you need to pull up your socks and think of the opportunities be it Data Science,Block Chain and or Cloud technologies , Web Skills are still in Demand and they are icing on the cake if you are an Data Scientist and know of some Web Skills its a big plus in getting a job done, Same goes for a Web guy with some front end and Backend Skills. The Distributed economy is at play and so is the economy of scale if the worker is not able to travel to the coutry of origin for Job take the job to the workers home or coutry to be executed, its not only the old principle of economy of scale at work here its about the Skilled Worked who has come of age and can work from anywhere and at anytime he likes. So to end yes there are opportunities galore more than the number of Days in the year its just that you need to decide what you enjoy doing the most and work towards it and in this Knowledge economy the skills which work out the best for the business interest will prevail.

Commodification of Technology is what the name of the game is, way back in 1990 yes i can say that since i belong to that era ;-) Just like knowledge if its not put to good use what is the use of that knowledge in the same way Technology is here to stay and is being put to use we without even realizing. Imagine there are no computers , its hard if you try sorry John lenon its a shameless plug since i like your song anyway long story short Ethernet was in and Metcalfe’s law was in place ,Computers labs back then either had some version of Unix in them or Novell Netware based PC’s talking to each other over ethernet on TCP/IP the times were different and the demands of the industry were also different with respect to Human Resources ( I know lots of people do not like this term) Come Circa 2018 while i am still writing about the same issues which have been lingering since 1990 , Why ? While on one front these Unix wars were going on Microsoft and Apple were having there own competition going on . GNU project has its roots in these frustrations and hacker culture which brought the Free software movement in the first place Since FOSS is after all run by humans and we all are part of this society at large we cannot escape from these principles in spite of so many advancements in alternative currencies in vouge today. We have to look at this issue more holistically as Humans so what i am saying is its always been more of Social issue rather being of a Technological one. There have been certain attempts in this direction as well but the magnitude of the issue is as such that we will be needing more brains and efforts to solve these issues. What i propose is something which is going to be a mix of both theory and practicals in terms of execution ...