The Experience Index

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It seems to me that people are figuring out that they don't enjoy their 9-5, work-in-a-cubicle, live for the weekend type job and are finding the courage to leave it. Younger folks are discovering that they don't need to plan for this type of life either. The problem is, though, that people do not know what they are getting into when they choose a career path. The amount of schooling they need, the type of life they will have while going to school, the money they will make, etc. I know that all that is more or less spelled out on paper in brochures and whatnot but to hear it from someone who has gone through it is another thing.

Since it takes so long to go through college, making a wrong decision early on makes it difficult to change later on. I do not have a complete solution for this problem but it seems to me that there should be a repository of knowledge and experience that helps and guides young students. The knowledge in this repository would be added to by people who have experience in a particular career. There are, of course, counselors and professors who give advice but I believe there are many who fall through the cracks, so to speak. Maybe I'm wrong and this isn't that big of an issue but a site where the consequences of choosing a particular path are laid out would be a service to society.

Odd Job and Random Task

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I guess this is more of a question than a fleshed out idea, but is there an app out there that lets someone either post odd jobs or take odd jobs? This is very similar to my other idea to have someone pay someone else to wait in line for them be expanded.

The concept is simple, you post a job you need done. A registered someone else could take that job. Just like with eBay, you would rate the employer if you took a job and rate the employee if you offered the job. Jobs could be searched for by location, type, skills required, etc. You can have the app automatically alert you if there are jobs nearby that match your skill set and you could also have others recommend jobs for you as well.

Online Resume

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The idea: An online resume system that scrapes your social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. to get data revenant to where you have worked. This way, your resume is built automatically. Taking the idea further, your places of employment could be visualized on a map. Your jobs could be visualized on a timeline to show details about how long you've worked at a particular place, etc. Your old references would be linked to by their social networks as well so potential employers could easily find them and talk to them.

Interesting things could be done with this depending on the type of profession of the individual. For example, a photographer could have their free-lance work accessed by location on the map or on the timeline. Links from the map or timeline could take a potential employer to a gallery of images taken at that job.