Industries don’t get saturated; innovation simply runs dry.
Okay, now that is settled . . . I think there are two questions behind this questions:
How do I fulfill my call in an industry that doesn’t seem hospitable to me being me (ie remarkable)? -and- How do I do the work I’m suppose to do if I’m just trying to get a job? One question occurs *after* you’re working, looking back at the decision, and the other question comes *before* getting a job, looking forward.
Today I’ll look backwards.
How do you fulfill your vocation as a mortgage broker?
How do you stand out, be true to yourself, and engage your unique gifts as a clerk at a hardware store?
How do you pursue what you’ve always wanted to do when you teach middle school history?
I think you “win” when you can offer a package of remarkable elements that are consistent with the core of what you do, employ your uniques skills, and embody your convictions. In time, those elements, by themselves, become the thing worth talking about.
It’s the apparent impossibility of such a task that gives it the friction necessary for innovation. By asking the questions, we're headed the right direction!
No one thought thirty years ago that a fly-through, interactive, multi-sensory, house tour would exist in the real estate business. But that’s what happens—and that’s what people talk about!—when a love for gadgets and video production are married to a once-mundane task of staging, showing, and selling a home. And now it’s common place.
