What careers are future proof?

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I am thinking of retraining and wondering what careers do you think are future proof? I think the trades are e.g. plumber, electrician etc - any other thoughts? Thank you.

Teaching, nursing, anything medical.

Trades such as plumbing and electrics
car mechanics
engineers and builders
teachers
medics - all types
care home operators (!)

’Tech’ - broad term for understanding technology and how it will continue to evolve

Think about those car mechanics mentioned above, yes their job will exist but its a VERY different job in the future as very few car engines will exist, just batteries and computers

Finance, there will always be money in the world and people who want to count it.

Finance, accounting, HR

Anything in healthcare.

I’m retraining as a general nurse to future proof myself

Undertaker

I’m a nurse of 20 years. We are facing redundancies.

Yes this 😊 100% future proof

I'd say no career is future proof because we don't know what the future holds or what new technologies might be invented or social trends develop.

But practical jobs are likely to be less vulnerable to AI and algorithms.

Data

And coding

Food manufacturing nothing on the horizon to replace humans eating yet!

Beauty enhancements

Private security, as the world becomes more uninhabitable and the equality gap widens more and more wealthy people will put up fences to protect their own.

Actually anything serving the mega rich so they can escape or ignore the rest of the world.
So anything on a luxury yacht.

Funerals, autopsies, and tax.

Those saying finance and medical, a lot is being replaced by AI

I'm not sure that jobs in health are as future proof as you might think anymore.

Chef

Teaching

Who knows with birth rates as they are! 😆

Same position here-been told redundancy is almost inevitable for me. In my 40s and have spent my entire working life in the NHS, mostly as a qualified nurse.
It’s devastating.

This in spades...anything in health and social care.

@Pippa12 what's the reason? I assumed we needed more nurses

Vet medicine. Although some of what we doi s being replaced by AI, computers that interpret x-rays, slides etc. but most of what we do will always need humans.

Finance is ripe for AI.
There will be a need for oversight, but the general calcs etc... can definitely be done by AI - meaning less people to do the same amount of work.

Something in farming maybe? AI won’t be able to do everything and we’ll always need food.

I’ve been thinking about this because there’s no way my job will continue to exist until retirement. I haven’t found anything definitely future proof so am going with learning to use AI for now!

Not at all. AI is a long, long way off replacing humans entirely but it's set on replacing the scale of the grind and person hours needed for a complex project.