Historically, criminal or corporate investigations involving computer equipment began by immediately disconnecting any compromised machines from the network, powering them down, and securing them in a proper environment where they would be imaged and analyzed. The rationale for this approach as the first step in the response process originates in the idea of preserving the state of the hard disk at the time of response at all costs. Thus, the thought was that if the system was allowed to continue running, valuable evidence may be inadvertently or intentionally overwritten.

Alongside the topics of changing mental models, ecology, human behavior, law, and governance in economic development which have come up in previous Global Futures lectures, I want to propose another important element in need of critical attention as we reflect on non-economic dimensions of development thinking and practice. This is “memory.”

The month of April involves dangerous and sad memories. On April 7, we remember the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. April 19 is a day of remembrance for Jews who perished during the Holocaust. And on April 24, we remember the one-hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Life passes in moments of time where action happens. Something occurs and a response is triggered. An emotion is felt, a door is closed, a word is spoken. The face before you moves to communicate with you, or the car seems motionless as Earth itself passes by. Somewhere in your head, inside the piece of flesh that controls our personality – a stain is made. Something in life spilt and burned itself into a psychic world that you can’t control. A transparent image that can be summoned, or rise alone. Sounds, geography, scent; these pieces of now act as a ritual to then. Like a séance for remembering, and that vision appears, and all the factors of reality can reassemble themselves like it was just yesterday. Time doesn’t really go very far at all.

For a time during the 1960s, it was hypothesized that all the cells of the human body were capable of storing memories, not only those in the brain, an idea known as cell memory orcellular memory.

This was based on memory transfer research using cannibal flatworms, and on anecdotal evidence of organ transplants where the recipient was reported to have developed new habits or memories, but such theories are now considered pseudoscientificand have not made it into peer-reviewed science journals.

Memory is our ability to encode, store,retain and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain. It can be thought of in general terms as the use of past experience to affect or influence current behaviour.

To understand how we learn, it is first necessary to understand something about how we think. Intelligence is fundamentally a memory-based process. Learning means the dynamic modification of memory. A system can be said to have learned if it is different at time t1 from the way it was at time t0. Under this kind of definition, even forgetting is a kind of learning. Learning means change--change that causes a system to act differently on the basis of what is contained within it. Human memories are in a constant state of dynamic modification.

Learning depends upon inputs. Each word you read and each sight you see changes your memory in some way. The role of memory is the interpretation and the placement of those inputs. Memory must decide what's worth keeping by determining what the meaning of an input is and where it fits in relation to previous knowledge it has already stored.

Memory is something we deal with every moment of the day, even when it seems like we’re not actively using it. Right now, I’m using my memory of the keyboard to type the words I’m writing. My brain focuses on the content, but while I’m doing that, I’m also remembering what keys to hit in order to make words appear on the screen in front of me. Of course, while I type, I'm not recalling how to type on a conscious level. It's a part of my implicit memory. Today I'm going to talk about memory recall and how you can use the two types of memory to help yourself stay organized.

The island of Achill in Mayo holds wonderful memories for me of idyllic days spent on holidays with my three children when they were but knee-high to a grasshopper. On that island there is a place called The Deserted Village, like many a veritable crossroads scattered to the winds by the Famine, marked now only by an old graveyard and the bones of forgotten generations.
On one such faded gravestone, I recall vividly the inscription: 'Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal'.

We all have memories, some of us more than others. Memories are a tricky thing. They often aren't stable or reliable, changing with perception over time: they shift, as the passage of time affects them. And, of course, a lot us as we age sometimes find it difficult to remember aspects of last week, never mind yesteryear nor where we left those car keys.

"We remember what we understand; we understand only what we pay attention to; we pay attention to what we want." - Edward Bolles

The statement above, made by a specialist in the study of memory, sums up this page on memory and the philosophy behind much of this web site on study skills.
• We insure more effective learning and memory when what we study and learn matches with and contributes to our career and educational goals.
• When we know how we learn best in terms of our learning style and preferences and are able to apply appropriate study techniques, we are better able to attend to, take in, and process information in various learning situations.

If you were to take any time to watch me throughout my day, you would probably think that I am a typical family man. I average 40 hour work weeks. On the weekends, I spend a large amount of time with my family. We go to sport practices and play in the backyard. We go on bike rides together. I read them books every night before bed. I play Sorry, Battleship, Candyland, Stratego, and UNO with them. I take them sledding in the winter and camping in the summer. We make dinner a family meal every evening. I cherish the time I spend with my wife and kids. So it may come as a surprise that I consider my career as more important than my family.

In the early 1990s, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), in collaboration with FÁS, developed an occupational employment forecasting model. In 2009, the model was transferred from the ESRI to the Skills and Labour Market Unit (SLMRU) (then based in FÁS). Since then, the Unit (now based in SOLAS) has been responsiblefor the maintenance and updating of the model and the production of employment projections at occupationallevel.

This is the second occupational employment projections report produced by the SLMRU. For the purposes of thisreport, the original model was updated and re-estimated to facilitate the move to a new version of the StandardOccupational Classification (SOC2010) and sectoral classification (NACE Rev 2).

Objectives

Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions you will make in life. It's about so much more than deciding what you will do to make a living. To start with, think about the amount of time we spend at work. We are on the job approximately 71% of every year. Over our lifetimes, this comes to roughly 31½ years out of the 45 years most of us spend working, from the beginning of our careers until retirement. The importance of selecting a career with which we are satisfied cannot be overemphasized.

While some people are lucky enough to just know what they want to do and end up in satisfying careers without giving it much thought, most of us are not. Many people don't put enough effort into choosing occupations or pick them for the wrong reasons. Maybe they choose careers that seem secure or pay well. They then end up unhappy. The best way to make sure that doesn't happen to you is to make a well-thought out decision.

Career planning 4 step planning process

Introduction
All of us want meaningful lives. We aspire to create meaningful careers, whether it’s the work itself or the lifestyle and activities our careers allow. What makes your life worth living? Makes your career important? Makes your job satisfying and meaningful? We’re not all the same. What someone believes is significant, important and of value varies from one person to another. Meaning is an individual matter. And, what’s meaningful for you today may change a great deal over time.

Why Is Discovering Meaning So Important?

A job is a position you hold, while a career includes the many jobs and professional activities you pursue during your time in the workforce. Focusing on your job to the exclusion of building your career might increase your short-term job security, but it can damage your long-term prospects for financial security and personal satisfaction. Creating a career path you proactively manage while excelling at each job you hold takes planning and hard work, but it will pay off with a better work/life balance and increased job options.

Security

Most of us are in a hurry to secure a position somewhere, just after the completion of college. We hardly give it a thought about where we are headed in our career. Initially, it might sound great that we have a job, when there are many who are unemployed, but having the wrong job is equally stressful. This is how you know that you are in the wrong job –

• You are moving from one job to another in quick succession
• It generally happens because you are on a quest to find the right kind of job but you end up in another wrong job and the chain continues until you retire.
• You are getting attracted to different job because you are not happy in what you are doing
• Good paycheck in another company also adds up to the reason of changing the job. But, what you forget is that you might end up doing the same boring thing from which you are running away. So, you see money doesn’t always lead to job satisfaction.

Choosing a career path can help you set professional goals and develop a strategy for getting where you want to be. Part of choosing an appropriate career path involves making an honest self-evaluation of your talents, abilities and interests. While elements of your path may change over time due to choice or circumstance, having an overall professional objective with which to guide yourself will help you make critical decisions with greater clarity.

Education
When you have an idea of the career path you want to pursue, it can help you make the best decisions about your training and education. Many lines of work require specific degrees and certifications, which can take years to pursue. Understanding the requirements of your chosen path will allow you to plan to prepare yourself for the career you want.

Career Planning