WHETHER you’re a farmer or an English teacher, be good in your endeavor in 2008 so you will be financially rewarded. If you are a farmer at the agricultural regions in Garabandal or Texas, then you must be diligent to know all about the economics of farming so your business will even prosper. After all, being self employed can be a career in itself. If you are an agricultural economics graduate at the Harvard Business School and you want to apply what you have learned to your farm back home in Texas, then that’s really swell. One of the successful farming techniques in the United States nowadays is to buy land in nearby Mexico and install their farms there. That way, labor and logistics in maintaining the farm are both cheap. Once you have replicated this stunt and it will be successful, the agriculture sector in Texas will notice you and you may be awarded as farmer of the year. Later on the governor himself or herself may be the one to even notice you and you will be appointed as state secretary of agriculture. Now isn’t that lovely?

If you are an international relations graduate from Georgetown, chances are you will land a job at the State Department. Be diligent enough and learn more languages as well as take master’s and doctorate so that your rise at Foggy Bottom will be steady and you will soon land a post as an ambassador to a foreign country. If you are a broadcast journalist, then be diligent in your job so you will be pirated by other outfits. A lot of CNN employees have been pirated by Qatar-based Al Jazeera which pays its employees even more lucratively. Or if you are a graduate in food technology or nutrition, then you can be hired by such Fortune 500 companies as Nestle, Monsanto, Coca-cola and Pepsico. Nestle is of course based in Switzerland while Monsanto, Coca-cola and Pepsico are all based in the United States. If you are a geologist, you may be employed by such companies as Dutch-based Shell and United States-based Texaco. If you are a graduate of a New York film institute, then start making your own films and emulate such neo-realist directors as Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Greengrass, Michael Mann and Joel Schumacher. A lot of these directors have been discovered not at formal film institutions though but during stints in short term courses at Sundance in Utah. Or if you want to be a model, you can start as young as 11 years old. A lot of models I know start young such as Dakota Fanning and Katherine Heigl.

If you want to be an epidemiologist, then you must constantly be updated with all the infectious diseases around the world such as the recent strain of tuberculosis discovered on an Indian woman on board a continental flight bound to the United States or the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo.