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.

Secondly, white British people are becoming a minority, and being replaced by otger faiths.

Really, @anon666 ?

The UK census seems to disagree, "White British" was still over 80% of the population in 2021.

It can only do the administrative side of the funeral. Undertakers are safe for a while yet!

Most of what undertakers do involves admin.

It will make the admin side of the job easier. And remember we are talking about in our current lifetime not hundreds of years in the future.

AI could do this

AI can give careers information and some careers advice but it can't do the guidance bit of the job.

Careers advisers can also support their clients in using AI effectively and ethically in their job search and job applications.

AI will support the job of a careers adviser but won't replace it.

I work daily with "automated" book-keeping via bank feeds, direct links between customers/suppliers invoicing systems, stock control/ordering systems. We're light years away from complete automation to the required standard. So much comes through the automated links that is complete garbage, duplications & omissions of data. Lost transactions disappeared into the ether when clocks go forward or back between countries in different time zones, etc - computer's automation didn't notice it, so it was down to Human's to realise! Automation is fine for the simple stuff. But even then, a modern system like Xero or Quickbooks can't work out whether a computer bought is for resale or is a capital asset or a birthday present for the business owner's kid - all it knows is that £x was paid to Amazon - a future improvement will be that it knows it was a computer bought, but it can't possibly the know the purchaser's "intent" as to what it was bought for which is vitally important for where it is shown in the accounts and tax treatments. This is the biggest problem we have at the moment with automated systems. Yes, they remove a lot of the drudgery keyboard data entry (which in turn removed a lot of the old drudgery of handwriting ledgers and adding them up), but we're still having a lot of human involvement and that will continue for decades to come.

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Skilled crafts- plumber, electrician, medical- but even more tricky to replace are carpenters, upholsterers, any kind of bespoke clothing, the more manual skills the better.

This is why, when the carpenter at my workplace asked to train me to replace him when he leaves, I said yes. The more manual skills I have, the more employable I am.

Drone pilot.

I think a distinction needs to be drawn between what CAN be done by AI and what people will want to be done by it.

There are a lot of tasks which I expect people will always want to deal with other people. That said, it’s going to lay waste to many professions and only those who are most talented and skilled are going to be required - the “bread and butter” can easily be done faster and more cheaply by AI.

I’m not in the industry and only see what’s in the media, but maybe AI will be used to see the bigger picture? Like seeing patterns in missed appointments/reviews and cataloguing injuries from hospital attendances. So circumstances like those that led to Baby P’s death, for example, can’t happen. Taking some of the strain out of social work and leaving the social workers to do the people part of the job.

Urban farming and systems development and maintenance, engineering, people who can repair things...

I would be really really overjoyed if AI could do something with menopause. Like understand symptoms, find patterns etc as everyone is different and I’ve found it hard to find a HRT regime that works for me because there are so many moving parts - diet, exercise, sleep, hormones… Most GPs at my practice aren’t trained in it and aren’t interested so it could pick up the slack there. Just imagine what a difference that could make.

The strength in AI is the data that’s used to help it learn. That’s purely down to how the AI is trained. The framework that is written to support that is agnostic to the data so it really doesn’t matter who writes it. I’d be very surprised if anyone limited the data used to that relating to white men.

If a UBI comes in, we may not need charities so much. At least ones serving humans.

But surely there will be automated systems programmed to manage the project? Emails, texts, reminders sent automatically to whichever person or orders sent at a particular time depending on if x,y, z has been completed.

Yes carpentry is an excellent skill to have. I’ll mention this to my son who has said for a few years now that that’s what he’d love to do.
He’s doing a degree in a type of Project Management at the moment but still young enough to learn a good trade.

Those systems are in place now. But people still need coordination, deadlines slip, requirements change, integration issues crop up, compromises are made. And that all requires people's brains, not computer systems.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now .

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This could be automated

Why do we work 5 days a week? Let AI pick up the strain and work only 4 or 3. The economy is a big loop, if people don’t earn as much, they can’t spend as much so there’s less money to be made. It’ll settle somewhere and earnings will be a part of it. So although some jobs will go, I think things will even out somehow and society will change as a result.
Technology has been a thing for decades, things are computerised now that weren’t 50 years ago. I do think AI will accelerate change significantly though.

Systems like that have been available for a decade or two and widely used in all kinds of environment. Still needs a "human" to talk to another "human" when automated reminders/emails etc are ignored to find out what the problem is and to find a solution.

Definitely a good idea to have skills, and project managers are always appreciated by the workers more if they have manual experience.
It's interesting work too, my teenage daughter has picked woodwork as an elective because she enjoys it so much and she came to work with me for a day and made wooden butter knives. Already asking if she can do her work experience at my workplace next year.

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