What Are People Doing All Over the World?
A large proportion of people remain employees throughout their working lives, while others become entrepreneurs. I came across a couple of interesting infographics, one of which visually depicts the world's population broken down by economic activity. Interestingly, the number of entrepreneurs and non-working people in the world is almost equal.
In daily work, dealing with candidates' CVs for various positions, one encounters the harsh reality of life - employers essentially need people aged 21 to 50, which is understandable. A person is at their peak of physical and intellectual capacity. No longer a "green cucumber" without experience, but not yet set in their ways about what is right or wrong.
A large proportion of people remain employees throughout their working lives, while others - against common sense and the bureaucratic apparatus of the state - become entrepreneurs nonetheless. Why against common sense? Probably because in them, curiosity, obsession with an idea, and a thirst for adventure dominate over the instinct of self-preservation.
But there is yet another group of people who neither strive to work and provide, nor are ready for any challenges or aspirations to the throne. They live by the principle - "neither ploughs, sows, nor plants, yet God still feeds and provides." Perhaps they have the fewest complaints against life?
On the website www.fundersandfounders.com I came across a couple of interesting infographics, one of which visually depicts the world's population broken down by economic activity. Humanity is unambiguously reproducing and there are ever more of us.
Interestingly, the number of entrepreneurs and non-working people in the world is almost equal. There must be balance - yin and yang, passive and active, calm and disruptive.
What Does Our Life Consist Of?
The second infographic looks at a human lifetime and its activities. It turns out that people are quite frail creatures. A full third of one's life is spent sleeping, in order to be able to function more or less actively for the remaining two thirds. Strangely, so little time is allocated to education - unless only school years are counted here.
Judging by this infographic, which is based on US population data, a person spends only just under 14%, or 10.5 years of their life, working. For comparison, the length of service currently required in Latvia for an old-age pension is 15 years, and from the start of 2025 it will be 20 years.
Setting aside all of the above-listed uses of our time, there are still around 9 years left over. The question is a challenging one - how will each of us spend them?
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