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.

These definitely aren’t future proof. We are replacing lots of people with AI solutions and automation now

Yoga can be taught online by AI

Something to do with horses.

They have been obsolete in terms of agriculture and transport my entire life and yet people still ride them and do sports like polo or race them. Particularly wealthy people.

So farrier or horse dentist would be my suggestions.

Then tree surgeon.

Undertaker.

Sorry to say that I don’t think HR will be bullet proof either, it will be in a much reduced capacity like a lot of other jobs

Tailoring. Dress making. Alterations.
Child care.
Personal care.
Support worker for disabled.
Construction and allied trades.
Veterinarian assistant.

There isn't a shortage of trained nurses. The nursing "shortage" that we see in hospitals is largely because posts have been cut to the bone to save money, not because posts are sitting empty for want of applicants. It's exactly the same with GPs. There isn't a shortage of trained GPs ready to work, it's that there is no NHS funding for the posts to employ them.

On the role of AI in healthcare - it won't be, for example, "a robot delivering your baby". It will be antenatal checks that become automated to the point that a trained midwife is not required to interpret them, so the appointment can be done by a more junior staff member. Or no longer requiring a qualified radiologist because AI can read the scan more reliably than a human. We have already seen this creep with the failed introduction of Physicians Assistants, but that's still going to be the direction of travel. I wouldn't choose to train in healthcare right now, not just because there will be fewer jobs, but because those that exist will become much less autonomous.

😂I’m not sure ‘hooker to the elderly’ would play all that well on MN lol

Def NOT future-proofed: accounting, mechanic (as we currently know it), coder, translator.

tree surgeons are probably fairly safe for now.

I would say any job that was performed by ‘key essential workers’ during the pandemic - jobs which kept the infrastructure and service industries of society running.

One on one teaching assistants for send children

It’s awful these days and I so wish I could get out of it

genuine question, why do you think dentistry is awful these days?

How old are you OP? Because that would make a difference to my answer.

I'm not convinced teaching will be. I can see a world where there is mass homeschooling.
Social worker? Thats what I am. But I only have 10 years or so left in the game so I see that as pretty safe. But I can see a time when its possible they disappear. Medicine has got to be safe surely - always gonna need that. but then someone up thread said about redundancies. With finance Id be wary because things can change and surely machines will do those jobs better than humans eventually.

It's a really interesting question. Maybe no job is future proof!

AI could probably devise that too.

Bummer....I wonder how long it would take to happen.

There are nursing jobs outside the NHS.

I do wonder if some people will prefer personal service though?
There are plenty of free yoga tutorials on YouTube, yet many people still choose to pay for courses.

Ai training. People don't understand that AI can only be useful if there are people who know how to use it.

Not so sure about this. My husband left the world of finance recently as he thinks it's a dying profession. Like many jobs, whenever any one leaves, the job dies with him/her, and then the boss gives more responsibility to the remaining workers. The finance sector (public anyway) is being shrunk to near oblivion.

Landscape gardener... charge mad money in London and are like hens teeth.

Yeah, I knew a tree surgeon in his mid-40s who was desperate to get out. He said it was a young person's job and he was finding it too exhausting as he got older.

I’m not in the UK.

Pubs will be a thing of the past with the price of alcohol and people aren’t frequenting them as much

Plenty of personal training videos online which can be done by AI

Not sure about chefs, according to what ChatGPT says their roles will be much reduced as well

No jobs are entirely bullet proof, all will be affected to some extent and some will be completely obliterated by AI

I think the question is not only which jobs will be taken over by AI but whether or not people will have money to spend on other services e.g. hairdressers, landscape gardeners etc.....currently these jobs rely on people having jobs/money to spend on them i.e. most people being broadly middle class and having spare money. However, that might not be the case in the future and even more jobs might go as people have less and less money in their pocket.

Yoga / fitness online has been and gone already - it was massive back in lockdown (for obvious reasons) and until about 2023 was still popular, but gym numbers have grown massively since then and are at their highest rates ever.
i work in the industry and 90% of us have gone back to face to face classes as they’re much more popular again now. People do actually need to be around PEOPLE and not doing everything remotely/ digitally.

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