How future proof is your job?

[Hooli]

I was having a very interesting conversation with my DM today about working 4 days a week. She feels I should have gone PT when DD was born.

I explained that in my profession (marketing) I needed to move up as high as possible to make sure my job was future proof. I'm 42 now, and am a manager. It took me years to get from an exec position to a manager but I know I could easily be replaced by someone younger and more cutthroat if I'm not a director and given the issues with pensions and working ages, I'll need to be in this role til im 75 it seems. I would never be taken seriously nor get a promotion if I dropped to PT hours. I feel shit enough about this as it is without her guilt tripping me.

So I wanted to see how future proof other people's job are, and whether I'm being a heartless bitch thinking of my future and not my child's present.

I work in a pharmacy. With more and more people using “pharmacy2u” which in my head makes no sense as there’s always a bank holiday rush and they still need prescriptions from surgery’s, I doubt there will be little pharmacy’s in towns in the future. I think amazon will start their own pharmacy to be honest.

I’m at the top of my profession in a role that will be needed for a good few years yet, but there are only a limited number of roles as it’s pretty specialist, only needed in PLCs and so pretty London centric - if I lost my job up here in the NW I would struggle to find something at the same level.

Charity so absolutely not! I've already been in a position as CEO where I had to fold the charity because of funding cuts, so I know how unstable this entire sector is.

Lol OP! As a director level in marketing, I'm under no illusions we'll be the first to go. Between pushing for AI, dynamic creative and automated ad buying there will literally be no need for marketing directors. What they will need is system admins, an easily transferable skill set from the current crop of content execs.

Teacher, and I’ve been waiting for the brave new world of one robot teacher and a thousand online students to happen ever since I started reading scifi in the 60s. No sign of it yet, so I’d say I’m ok for the next decade before I retire.