The jobs that came up for the hottest jobs were a sorry group - caregiver, nurses aide, and so on. I was thinking more about careers that young people might aspire to, not minimum wage jobs.
So I eventually found the hot jobs in IT. Today a project in IT is managed by someone with a certificate in PMP, PMI or Scrum Master.
There's a title! What would I do as a Scrum Master?
"As a Scrum Master, you’ll help your team perform at their highest level. As the expert of Scrum values, principles, and practices, the Scrum Master protects the team from both internal and external distractions. Scrum Masters tend to be people-oriented, have a high level of emotional intelligence, and a passion for helping their team members thrive."
"In a nutshell, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where:
A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog.
The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint.
The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint.
Repeat"
Scrum brings to mind the dictionary definition - a place or situation of confusion and racket; hubbub. verb (used without object). The Scrum approach is based on the rugby formation of players - locking arms, packed closely together with their heads down, attempting to gain possession of the ball.
Isn't this an obvious male athlete metaphor. It makes me think somehow this is attractive to engineers. That's because I remember them at Imperial Oil talking about playing "toilet footfall" which they called a "scrum game". The football is thrown high in the air and everyone piles towards and then onto the person it will land on or will catch it. Hence the toilet reference as the person and football are buried far below the group.
Soon the first Daffodils will be blooming - not these, though, these are the last to bloom Poeticus, Poet's daffodil.
