For our younger posters, future proof careers

[WorldofWarcraft]

What are jobs that are safe for the foreseeable future? Everything is getting automated. Computers and robots are taking over jobs that people used to do. You can deposit a check now just by taking a picture of it with your phone. You can check yourself out by scanning items yourself at Walmart or pretty much any grocery store.

Cars that drive themselves are the way of the future. Drones that can deliver packages has been talked about by Amazon. This is going to open the floodgates to automization of everything.

Librarians, newspaper/magazine industry/delivery, video store rentals, music stores, travel agents, postal workers, just to name a few, are jobs that are soon on their way out the door.

I don't see the medical industry boom settling any time soon. Until they build walking, talking robots with human features, the Trades are safe, especially with government oversight on inspections/certifications. And when they finally do make these robots, they can replace any and every job that exists.

 

[sub_thug]

Information securities seems like a solid field to get into

 

[thebluerider]

the world will always need fluffers

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Fullonrapist

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Coding. Learn Java, make money.

 

[Plutoburn]

Investing

But it requires some kind of fund to begin with. Dabbling a little into this now.

 

[Osculater]

Chemistry
Pharmacist
Sales

 

[dije1]

Plumbing

 

[Stargazer Rex]

Guns for hire

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Garbage man

The world will always need someone to throw away shit

Who is going to throw away all the broken robots ?

 

[RetiredSlave]

Anything having to do with creative arts. The downside is starvation in most cases as it has always been.
Health field is good for stable work and will be for a long time to come, however having been a support worker for the past eight years the politics, policy and procedure are fucking atrocious.
The supply demand of employment needs are very cyclical in nature. The trades are flourishing now because of oversaturation of arts degrees. Arts degrees will become more vogue as trades become oversaturated and so on. Health, business and techmology seem to always be in fashion and there will always be demand. It seems to me to always be a generational balancing act between the arts and trades, with demand for trades currently winning, and the reason english PHDs are currently stuck doing the same shit as a peon like me.

 

[theskza]

Any stats behind libraries becoming extinct?

 

[hbdope]

Investing

But it requires some kind of fund to begin with. Dabbling a little into this now.

Investing is volatile. I know one Mortgage Broker from Texas and one Forex trader who both did well, drove Benzes but lost a lot of money and turned to medicine for the steady stream of income. The forex trader took huge risks though and he held his parent's life savings in a separate account but I saw him make thousands of dollars using government loan money. Ended up blowing it all on hookers then dipped into his parents' savings account for 30k to buy his new hooker girlfriend a house in South America.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Garbage man

The world will always need someone to throw away shit

Who is going to throw away all the broken robots ?

not sure if you are joking or not but the garbage guys around here make some good money and have good benefits .. plus the hours they work are good, work early off by 2 pm

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

Any Science/Technology/Engineering//Math (STEM) fields, but especially mechanical engineering and programming (for future tech like robotics, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, etc).

Math itself is a very difficult field to achieve big success in (mostly teaching and research jobs), but if the tech industry explodes, having advanced mathematical skills will be a major asset in the future.

Medical seems futureproof, but even that might be impacted on how technology will correlate with the human body. If somehow biological signals can get translated and manipulated into digital signals, all bets are off.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

not sure if you are joking or not but the garbage guys around here make some good money and have good benefits .. plus the hours they work are good, work early off by 2 pm

Nah im dead serious

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Nah im dead serious

yeah then I agree...and u dont need to be spending tons of money on college to do it.

 

[hbdope]

Medical seems futureproof, but even that might be impacted on how technology will correlate with the human body. If somehow biological signals can get translated and manipulated into digital signals, all bets are off.

That's such a generic statement. An EKG is a biological signal translated into a digital signal, a thermometer, a pulse ox, an EEG, an Ultrasound, a CT, MRI. Those all use biological signals translated into digital signals.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

communications... its a good field to be in. Anyone who wants to work in TV should get into it. Studio personal are getting replaced by robotic cameras and by systems that allow the director to be the Audio guy, TD and a few other jobs, but coms will always be needed. Someone will always be needed to hook up a person on TV's mic, make sure they can hear the director and make sure they can hear the people on the other side of the world they are trying to talk to..

 

[ironwolf]

not sure if you are joking or not but the garbage guys around here make some good money and have good benefits .. plus the hours they work are good, work early off by 2 pm

Yup, my friend is a garbage man. He loves it, he's been doing it for like 14 years and makes a pretty solid income, I think 50-60k as its a city job. Full benefits, retirement. He says the best part of it is that you work outdoors and it dosent really get boring.