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.

Hairdresser.

Professional driver of some sort - bus, hgv, train?

Yeah, and you don't need to bother saving for a pension 🙄

This will be automated at some point though?

But you won't earn enough to pay your bills.

Funny isn’t it. My great-grandma told my Nana to get a job that the men couldn’t take from her when they came back from the war (WW2). Futureproof changes all the time!

Death and taxes. Something along those lines?

Isn't undertaker, like vet, undergoing all these horrible changes by big chains or investors buying them all up and franchising them and basically make it a really really crap job?

Self driving vehicles will take any driving jobs.

25 years ago is was very common for those in healthcare to have children following into the trade. I don’t know a single person in our profession who would recommend it now.

Yeah, but what people immersed totally with deep knowledge of one profession do not seem to grasp is that this is happening IN ALL PROFESSIONS.

The people upthread claiming that AI will not replace people, even some dismissing the possibility’because computers didnt’ are very very much mistaken, to the point where I wonder if they’ve been paid to write that. Computers have already made a huge proportion of jobs redundant and they have not been replaced in the same numbers. AI will make this worse. Communication is failing so much is going through without people knowing. We are heading to a society driven by the inheritance of baby boomers, with a few incredibly, insanely wealthy controlling populations with powers undreamed of and the rest of us forced into lower and lower pay in worse conditions while having to pay through our noses for the ‘privilege’ of serving and remaining alive.

I heard an expert say AI is five to ten years away from doubling the human lifespan.

It’s five to ten years away from doubling the destruction of the environment. What possibility is there for human survival then? Existing AI has already doubled Google’s consumption of energy. Is it going to double our planet?

Vicar

I think that's a calling rather than a career, isn't it?

Interesting post. I’ve been thinking along these lines for years. Half the country seems to be either in therapy or under the care of a mental health team. But look around you. Do we live in a society filled with happy, well-balanced people? If anything, people seem more unhappy than ever. In every street in Britain you’ll find someone crippled with anxiety, insomnia, depression, PTSD, phobia, OCD and god knows what else. It would be cruel to say therapy is useless, but it clearly doesn’t work very well. I can think of several people who’ve spent thousands and not only seem no better but in some cases worse! I knew a girl with agoraphobia, for example. She spent tens of thousands on a psychotherapist. Guess what? Yup, still agoraphobic and house bound.

Maybe that will be the final joke of a malignant god. We cure human ageing just as climate change wipes us all out.

Yes I think this too. Unless they invent one of those Perspex fish bowl things with millions of small blades inside that give you the perfect cut every time. Saw that in a sci fi movie - think it was Blade Runner or maybe Logan’s Run.

The trusts are in so much debt there isn’t the money to pay the staff anymore. It’s a sorry state of affairs!

Don't do it!!!!

I used to think creative jobs were safe and things like web design were a winner. Ai Is killing that! No one knows. If either train in ai solely or alongside another vocation so you can use ai to stay ahead. A good creative for example can use it sparingly and sensitively to be more efficient just as they've used other tech in recent decadesm you do that and you can be ahead of the Dodgy ai art. Until it evolves! Sigh

For a lot of people dealing with the deceased wouldn't be a very nice job either way. But people will always die so you will always have work.

Eventually....

The safer industries from a continued employment POV are probably in those parts of the transport industry yhat are very heavily regulated, where the technology has to demonstrate very very very low failure rate and where the consequences of AI/automation not working as advertised are potentially catastrophic...

Even in the airline world the likes of Airbus, who tend to very much like new tech, have stated their next gen shorthaul airliners will be two pilot.

The immediate threat to pilot employment might be the technology allowing reduction to one pilot in the cruise phase, which will reduce pilot numbers required at some airlines, but overall it's probably one of the more AI proof jobs, at least for the next 20-40 years.

I doubt it within the OPs working lifetime, unless it's a very self contained transport network like the DLR.

Anything that requires humour, kindness, empathy, etc.

Even that costs a lot ! I don’t think Undertakers will ever be short of money !