Class of 2013: You'll Never Again Be so Unburdened; Do Something Bold Robotics CEO: 12-Year-Old Whiz As Smart As Ph.Ds | This Could Be Big When Ted Larson, the CEO of a Silicon Valley robotics firm, hired Rohan Agrawal as his summer intern this year he was skeptical that Rowan could keep up with his team’s pace. Rohan, after all, is 12 years old. And Larson, whose firm, OLogic, usually hires college or graduate students as interns, had never worked with someone so young. “We had a large box of robot parts that some of the guys at Google gave us,” Larson said of Rowan’s first day at Ologic last summer. Larson said that he could have given that box of parts to a grad student and they may have come back to him with a functioning robot in a couple of weeks. “And I was like, ‘oh my god,’ what will I do with him for the summer?” By the end of the internship, Larson was comparing Rohan’s robotics aptitude and knowledge to that of a PhD: “And anyone who has a problem with that clearly hasn’t met Rohan.” Technology & ElectronicsRobots
What Not to Say When Negotiating Your Salary Jobs that have become Obsolete by Leigh Goessl | Career Path Leigh Goessl's image for: "Jobs that have become Obsolete" Caption: Location: Image by: As technology progresses the demands for certain kinds of jobs change. Today many of these occupations are not only almost, if not completely, extinct, but chances are the current generations have never even heard of some these professions. Here's a look at some jobs that have become obsolete over the years: *Milkman Decades ago people didn't run to the grocery or local convenience store when they ran out of milk, it was delivered to their home by the milkman. *Iceman Before electric freezers and refrigerators became standard, people used to keep their food fresh with ice placed in iceboxes. *Elevator Operator Before elevators were programmed how to start/stop with the push of a button, elevator operators would run the elevators, decide what order floors would be stopped and align the elevator with the floor so riders could exit safely. *Lector *Lamplighter Once a need, today lamplighters are unheard of.
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