to worry that DD's chosen career can only earn a maximum of £27,000??

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dd is clever. she has 3 a-levels in maths, psychology and law. She has a lot of potential for many areas. They are not amazing a-level grades, so uni is possible but maybe having to do 4 years or just a local uni, but there are lots of jobs she could do with those a-levels and go on to earn well.

She has decided she wants to do embalming/funeral work. I don't have an issue with the chosen career (although i don't get it!) but it doesn't pay well. A maximum of 27,000 and that is a lot of graduates starter money! she is hoping to go on an embalmer 2 year course soon and a lot of the time they can get jobs through there, as people contact that school and ask for people who are finishing. i am just worried about her choice.

aibu? 27000 forever isnt that much

Oh god - the Wright Stuff and the DM? We really need to up our game, don't we?

We will need to put swearing in every post at this rate Plundering bastards.

Of course when jobs are automated people will look to train in new jobs that are not. The more supply of qualified people in a profession will lower the wage. At least in that profession some people will just not have what it take or the stomach to do it for any wage. But I think in general automation will lower wages in jobs that the robots/stroke computers can't do as people will flock to train in those jobs to stay in employment and flood the market. On the whole I think automation poses a huge challenge to who make a living and threatens white collar workers just as much as blue collar workers. But also a challenge to a capitalist and retail based society like ours. Our capitalism model needs consumers and therefore needs us to be able to raise the funds to consume. If we all lost our jobs tomorrow who would buy stuff? Then the machines would be redundant anyway. Automation is coming and unlike previous labour/industrial/technological revolutions there will not be may new jobs in new sectors for the labour force to move into. We may need to rethink how we do things.

That poor daughter who may have seen the story on Wright stuff

Did she the embalming programme on channel 5 yesterday?