Question: Is it wrong to dream of a high-paying prestigious job for young people? These days, many young students pour tremendous effort into gaining admission to elite universities, and those who emerge victorious in the competition then compete again for limited positions in finance, IT, consulting and other big firms. As the world has become richer and the middle class has expanded, a much larger share of the population has earned university degrees and is qualified for those coveted positions. But the number of available slots remains fixed. At the same time, society cannot function if everyone aspires only to a desk job and tries to avoid manual or service work. One might suggest that lowering one’s expectations would lessen the stress of this cutthroat environment, but is it really right to tell young people to lower their ambition to receive less stress in life? Would you share any wisdom in the structural mismatch in the current job market?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Korean Conference.
You see some nations that are still developing and you see some nations that have been developing for a longer time and what you typically see is in the developing nations that you have the contrast between your parents’ generation that were poor and now a newer generation that has the opportunity to get an education and therefore, aspire to the kind of jobs that their parents could not aspire to.
And this is natural, and it is not in most cases necessary to discourage young people from striving for this. The equation is, of course, different for spiritual people, but you need to consider whether it actually is in your Divine plan to spend so much time and effort getting these few high-powered jobs.
But what you see in the slightly older nations is that there is now a certain saturation of the market for these high-powered jobs and this means that these nations, in order to fill the lower positions, will have to pay them more and more money. And there is, if you want to express it in a more extreme way, a development that is happening whereby you could see a certain point in the future where the highest paid people in the job market would be garbage collectors because nobody else wants to do that job. In order to get the job done, society has to pay well enough to attract people. I am, of course, slightly exaggerating, but nevertheless, you already see this tendency in some nations where the so-called lower or uneducated positions are actually paid better and better in order to get people to take these.
You also see a tendency that there is growing youth unemployment in some of these nations because there are too many people who have an education. There is also a phase where there is a tendency that people are driven by, young people are driven by, their parents to get the kind of education that their parents could not get. But they are not looking at the practical realities that there are not enough jobs for so many people to fill these few positions. This is something that gradually works its way out over time. But of course, if you are aware of these trends and if you are a spiritual person, you might seek to evaluate: “Is it really in my Divine plan that I go for these high-powered positions?” And it may be because you have the potential to have a positive impact on society, but it may also be that it would be too big of a distraction for your Divine plan and therefore, it would be better to aim for a lower position that can still give you a comfortable income. But again, this is, of course, completely individual and therefore, you need to use our teachings and tools to tune in to your Divine plan.
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