Digital Nomads – How Cloud Computing and Mobility will Save the Middle-Class

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Kevin Benedict.

The middle-class jobs of the past, the jobs you and I could start with and retire from, are mostly gone today. It is much harder to find jobs that require simply hard-work, responsibility and dedication. In today’s world, in order to live a traditional middle-class lifestyle that supports home ownership, cars, a college education and a family, it takes a different mindset and inventory of skills. A set of skills our education system has yet to fully understand and embrace. These are the skills of a digital nomad.

Being a digital nomad means we depend less on company issued laptops, smartphones and tablets, as we desire our own personal tools (BYOD) that can travel with us from job to job and employer to employer. We depend less on companies for our software applications and seek cloud-based applications and services that are tied to us personally, not just our current employer. We seek recognition for our work beyond the four walls of our employer…

We want our contacts and followers (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+) to be on our own personal networks, not just our current employers’. We want our accumulated work, reputation, skill sets and competencies to be in the public, not buried inside the file cabinet of a past boss. I propose that digital nomads will also favor investments, retirement and health insurance plans that are abstracted from employers and that follow us personally from job to job…

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