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.

They’ve mass employed international nurses and have no funds left

Yes, and better

I also disagree that healthcare jobs are future proof. Some, sure but I think it'll be luck as to what roles they are. Diagnosis will be done by machines -at least in part - sooner than I think anyone realises. And probably surgery as well. It's only a matter of time.

Qualified humans may well still be needed but in much smaller numbers.

I heard a podcast a while back where some expert whose name I have inconveniently forgotten was saying that in the best case scenario with AI, humans won’t need to work on anything like the same scale. That AI can perform roles and generate income that can be then be shared out!

Yes, no role or department can be guaranteed "forever" job. They can also "down grade" roles at the drop of a hat unfortunately. Then you find yourself doing the same job for less money. It shouldn't be possible, but it happens (my whole team) . It's fairly safe to say you can always get a job somewhere though - though you may have to settle for a lower pay band.

All subject to AI and technology now with redundancies as algorithms do the foundational work. Those still working will have to be comfortable with using AI etc.

A lot of tax is being replaced by AI

We already are at the stage where people don't need to work on the scale we do, the problem is that the money, rather than getting shared out, is being increasingly held by an obscenely wealthy minority.

Trickle down AI economics - doubt the tech bro’s will share. We will need a Universal Basic Income scheme sooner than you think.

I agree with you about social work. I do think that there are certain careers where the individuals that you're working with are vulnerable they need human involvement and human contact.

We actually had some training on AI a couple of weeks ago and it basically was like "here's how AI can enhance jobs like yours, except you can't use it in your job because you deal with confidential information." Theoretically we could use it to write hearing decisions, but because the hearing decisions contain people's confidential information like medical diagnoses and things like that were not supposed to.

Perhaps the AI and robots will decide that they would rather chat with or receive services from humans rather than other AI. That would be cool.

There is absolutely no way this will happen, we have seen time and time again how wealth concentrates in the hands of those who own the technology and the population is fucked over repeatedly.

TBH I’d say pretty much none. The trick is to follow a continuous path of learning and additional skills so that you can side-step into other roles, functions and industries.

At a careers talk at my Kids’ school a few years ago, the speaker talked about the fact that we used to have a career for life, maybe a second one in later life. Now people change careers/industries on average 7 times in their lifetime. A flexible, growth mindset is essential so that you are always considering the forward applications of skills, education and training. No job is for life now, especially with the technology we have.

Undertaker(guaranteed work)

People will always need basic services but it's not a growth industry, even wealthy people are abandoning the idea of a funeral. I know several people who were cremated without ceremony = cheapest coffin, no service - the families wanted to have a memorial in the back garden and didn't see the need to pay for any of the stuff in between!

I mean which idiots are encouraging the use of AI?

1. it often comes up with incorrect answers
2. it will decimate the need to work and leave humanity in a downward spiral of nihilism
3. it’s taking away from the creative industries
4. it overcomplicates everything and makes working life hell
5. it is incapable of being human - humans have evolved to interact with other humans- interacting with machines is likely to severely affect mental health

AI is a fucking disaster for humanity.

Phisiotherapist, vet, optician, psychotherapist, stylist, maker of wedding dresses,farrier. Plenty of choice there!

Labour market experts predict that 60% of businesses will be transformed due to technological advances.
However, they reckon only around 3% of jobs worldwide can be fully automated. New jobs will be created and existing jobs will change.

Looking for a 'future proof' career is coming at it the wrong way. You should be focusing on developing skills that will be useful in a fast changing labour market.

AI is a fucking disaster for humanity.

But it's here and not going anywhere. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Chronic pain specialist.

I don’t think pp are encouraging the use of AI so much as recognising that it is here and it is going to precipitate enormous change which very few people are prepared for.

Not really. Think of the production line - many different and highly complex tasks are integrated to manufacture a car.

For your hairdresser example, robots to wash, cut, dye, dry/style. Four 'staff members'. Each is an expert at everything within its/their speciality, so every stylist in the world is now in your local robo-salon. TV/movies have trained us to think in terms of cute anthropomorphic robots. In reality, it's just like the production line. One centralised robo-salon brain, then successive functions, whether in separate bodies or not, semi-autonomous or not, to wash, cut, dye, dry, style, to precise specifications.

If it becomes profitable to integrate and automate more mundane and domestic tasks, it can and will happen relatively quickly.

Yes I think this, which is why looking at what the wealthy do with the money now and being part of that is my best bet for getting more than ubi. That's why I went with farrier. Noone needs a horse, yet the rich still have them. But classic car maintenance, rolex designer/maker. I mean 43k on a watch when everyone uses thier phone?

Then being something essential that people with ubi and no job, would still pay someone else to do might make small money. Even in shanty towns beauty salons and food stalls crop up, makeshift schools.

Absolutely not they will be first ones to go- unis and schools in some countries are already with ai teachers, my kids are home er and are taught by ai which looks like an asian person as if they were talking to a teacher. Musk has also said there wont be need for teachers in the future, ai is faster and can work with children 1on1 unlike a teacher who is one person spread between 30 and telling everyone to be quiet and not ask any questions. Medical- robots are doing already surgeries and many countries have ai diagnosing conditions by pictures and sending referrals on to consultants without seeing the gp.

Translator here. Currently looking for a new role in life. I pondered for years about retaining as a midwife but apparently we don’t need as many anymore as people aren’t having as many children.
Honestly everything I thought of feels like it will be less useful sooner rather than later.
Bill Gates recently said he thinks coders, energy experts and biologists are the only jobs that are safe from the AI revolution.