Preparing for the future.

[Rruchi man]

Unfortunately with the current projection of things, the pay from that job that you have spent most years in school preparing for and trying to get may soon not be able to sustain you economically in the near future. Also, that dream job/career that you are working and hoping so hard to get may soon become an obsolete profession due to the change and evolution in technology and ways of doing things.

My opinion on the way forward?
 -Upgrade your mindset and break free from the old mentality of "Finish School, Get a Job, and work yourself for a paycheck to retirement". If you have a great job, and it is what you love, I'm not against it, but for the sake of the future...you must arm yourself with knowledge and learn a high paying skill that has future prospectives if possible.

Some High Paying Skills of the Future;

-Blockchain
-Coding And Software Enhancement
-Networking Development
-Algorithms Designer
-Cloud Computing
-UI Designer
-Software Computing
-Analyst
-Public Relations
-Video Production
-Audio Production
-Sales (Ex. Affiliate, Offline)
-Digital Marketing & SEO
-Copywriting
-Content Creation
-Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking
-Machine Learning
-Financial Management
-Trading
-Foreign Languages
-Management Consulting
-Art, design, photography
-Sports/Fitness Coach/Nutritionist
Source- https://startuptalky.com/future-top-skills/

If it is possible for you to have multiple high paying skills, that is good, the problem is in not having any.

[Upgrade00]

Many of the high paying skills you listed are actually professions which are studied in the university and not just skills you acquire on the Internet. Of course, you could teach yourself or take an online course, but considering the nature of this post, it should be pointed out that they are professions. Also, so many jobs are full time and cannot be joined with another job, except if that job can be done remotely

Unfortunately with the current projection of things, the pay from that job that you have spent most years in school preparing for and trying to get may soon not be able to sustain you economically in the near future.

Is there a rationale to this projection? Or a link one can check out? The only thing I can think of is inflation, which would reduce the value of money earned and increase the value of products in the market; This is a salient issue and should push one to get multiple streams of income rather than relying on just one.
Finding an alternative stream of income does not require learning a new skill.P.S, I'm not against leaning a new skill, it's a very much needed requirement in today's world, I'm just creating a counter argument so most people would know what they're going in for when embarking on it.

[davis196]

Being an entrepreneur or self-employed isn't for everyone.It requires a lot more effort and hard work.
Most of the people simply aren't born to be entrepreneurs.
All the "education is a scam,9/5 jobs are for the losers,it's cool to have no boss and be your own boss" type of propaganda is shared mostly by fake "online gurus",who want you to buy their expensive shitty online courses.I'm sick of all the "working online is cool,having a normal job sucks" BS.
Working online is as hard as working offline.
We all know that the education system is far away from being perfect,but you can't succeed in life without proper education.The things mentioned in your list cannot be learned in a couple of months without proper education.
I know that the future is unpredictable and we have to adapt,but do you think that all the people on the planet can become blockchain experts,programmers,developers,freelancers,web designers,affiliate marketers,copywriters,etc.?
 

[hugeblack]

It's not about the places that pay well, it's about enjoying what you're doing 10 years ago, none of the jobs were at their highest value, but they're now with excellent returns and that may change in the future. What I'm trying to say here is that everything changes so continue with education otherwise these current jobs may not have value in the future

[batang_bitcoin]

We're on the time that you can have various skills and use them for having different jobs at the same time. Having one job is in the past and there are a lot of professionals today that don't settle on having one job. It's like that they're full time to one and be part time to another one for which they're honing their skills and monetizing it at the same time. Most of the skills that everyone can learn now and earn on it are related to digital.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

Someone once said (can't find quote):
"Your kid will most likely work in a job that is not yet invented".

Taking into consideration how fast technology and deep learning evolves i can tell you that most likely you will not pick now a well paid job in 20 years perspective. There might be no jobs like "Foreign Languages", "Trading", "Analyst" but instead the most paid jobs will be "friend for rent" or "pro gamer" or something as crazy as "artificial family" or "social interaction coach" something that sound so dump now but with everything being done by AI in future there will be nothing serious for us humans to do.

With like 10% of work beding done by humans and 90% by machines we will have some sort of salary for non-workers big enough to enable them leaving confortable life. Or even a non-money solution. So most likely you will commite sueside from being bored or no meaning in life rather than die from lack of money to leave. Am I making this out? Well ... not really - "you will own nothing and be happy" is what the elites are planning to achieve and are constantly discussed in the global economic forum. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de5sxxnKOac&ab_channel=GeorgeGammon

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Source- https://startuptalky.com/future-top-skills/

Hmm, a website with the name "startuptalky" recommending mostly tech-based jobs--shocker there.

How about the younger generation trying to cure cancer or other health problems that this and previous generations of scientists haven't been able to tackle?  Where are all the helping professions and careers that are good for the soul and not strictly for the wallet?  I swear, every day I see more and more youngsters glued to their smartphones instead of interacting with whatever and whoever is right in their vicinity.  They need less screen time, not more of it (although I wouldn't disagree that all of those careers listed are vitally necessary ones with the exception of a few, like content creation and trading).

Your career path should not be driven solely by economic factors, and I think going to college is beneficial as long as one studies something practical--or if one's family has enough money to blow on a 4-year university education, in which case a major in history or psychology might be an option.  But the world is always going to need doctors, nurses, engineers, people in the allied health professions, accountants, and people working in fields only loosely related to technology.  And guess what?  You need a lot of schooling to be in any of those fields.  That investment in your education is an investment in yourself, and it will pay off in time

TL;DR: This is an article heavily biased toward tech and trendy jobs for the zoomer generation and misses a lot of key points regarding career selection.

something that sound so dump now but with everything being done by AI in future there will be nothing serious for us humans to do.

Man, that was being said back in the 1950s about life in the 1980s.  Didn't happen.  There will always be a need for human input and work.  Always.

[Tytanowy Janusz]

something that sound so dump now but with everything being done by AI in future there will be nothing serious for us humans to do.

Man, that was being said back in the 1950s about life in the 1980s.  Didn't happen.  There will always be a need for human input and work.  Always.

You are right but the need for human input and work is going down and down witch each year. Just putting here an agriculture as an example:

https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture

In 1950 around 15-20% of people were employed in agriculture now its like 5-10%. In 2050 it will be 1-5%. Those poeple need to find other place to work and this is thanks to the invention of agricultural machinery and GPS. Same will happend most professions because of AI in next 30 years. Those people will stop working or work as a person who licks microfone for $5-7 million per year (amouranth  on thich).

[kryptqnick]

I agree with the op that the old scheme doesn't work anymore. For me, it's important to diversify and do many different things. I don't think that any of the things I currently do will become obsolete, but the demand can become lower, and also it's just more interesting for me to do various things I care about rather than focus on one task. After all, life isn't long, and I don't want to spend all of it, dedicated to one job. Keeping in mind useful skills and updating knowledge is also very important, of course, because the world is changing very fast, and requirements keep changing.

[palle11]

-Public Relations

Do we think this is a growing future skill or it is already existing because from beginning of creation there has been relation and public relation, Aaron spoke for Moses etc. My point here then is public relation has been a field that has been existing as far back and is included in the tertiary curriculum or subjects against those others listed that are connected to cryptography and digital learning.

Generally the challenge for the listed fields is education, those not educated are already disadvantaged. Is that to mean there are no artisan field with no formal education or lesser education with prospect for the future

Or is this topic restating the importance of a level of formal learning.

[fiulpro]

Which country you live in is also a major factor in your decision to pursue such skills and use them to your advantage.
Technology will always be a much needed skill, plus right now countries are striving to achieve great deal of success when it comes to digitalized currencies, some of them are also making their own which would require a whole lot of people employed in the new developing market.
It's not just about diversity, it's also about quality and how well you master the intended skill you are putting out for your future.
I always feel like medicine is a very important skill now a days, chemists, pharmacists, doctors, nurses everyone is needed especially during the time of the pandemic therefore, if that's something that is possible for you then you should definitely go for it as well.

[cheezcarls]

Yeah the quote itself reminds me of the Rich Dad Poor Dad book that I’ve read years ago. It’s exactly what my parents taught me as they’re having a traditional mindset. In my early years of post-graduation, I was struggling to find my footing in the online world of being a virtual assistant. I don’t have a stable client (only a few lucky ones but only lasted several months), in which I am criticized by my parents for years comparing me to my younger sisters whose office jobs are stable. They keep urge me to land a stable job like a real office job or in the government. However, I don’t find freedom in office jobs as I prefer something that no one controls the time but me.

I also got into network marketing and had a little success in selling nutritional health products. But once again, my family isn’t supportive. In the end due that my expenses are more than my income, I don’t have much savings and already broke. My mindset was result-oriented rather than career-oriented. No matter how hard I tried, I was unsuccessful and there’s a point where my parents “sermon” me in the worst way possible.

You know what saved me? Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology!

It turned my life around. It all started by just joining airdrops and bounty programs. I was broke that time, but I kept my faith and eventually the results made me finally pay back my debts, giving back to my family, traveling around the corner, etc. Plus, I’ve landed a few crypto jobs as well, but what I have been passionate about is more on doing videos and as a public speaker. Despite that I lost my job again months before the pandemic lockdown, I never gave up finding another crypto opportunity and I did and the rest is history.

[20kevin20]

I don't think we can really prepare much for the future unless we try to prepare ourselves in multiple domains. For example, I see Universal Basic Income as part of the future - which probably means our jobs will be replaced by robots as we're already witnessing this right now.

I agree with you, Pharmacist - we will still need humans to do some of the work. But as tech advances, we will gradually be replaced by robots up to a point where we will probably only be useful at improving robots & tech and fixing those that go faulty. I've seen what "digitalized cities" look like and it's quite eerie. When you have to interact with nobody anymore but just buttons and robots, you realize how useless we'll all really become.

On the other hand, I do think that replacing human labor with robots will at one point have a significant negative impact on the society, up to a point where we'll go back to human labor again. So preparing for the future is more of a subjective matter of discussion, one that depends on how you actually think the future would look like.

[Wexnident]

Well tbf, most of the jobs that you've listed are jobs that require you to actually spend a fuckton on it, not just simply studying it up in a year or two. Like they say, it takes years for your craft to actually blossom and for it to be considered as something as "high paying". Not to mention the competition since if you yourself know that those are jobs that are being taken up now adays, others would also know of it no? Though afaik at the current state there's actually still a lot of demand for it.

[pealr12]

The future remains uncertain to us, what matters is now and what we are doing to blend in the moment, as the world advanced new technology come in that shape the way we do some certain things, some people already adapting to this new ways while others are still finding their way,   for example, because of the pandemic lots of things have changed, many people even with this high skills don't have a job (something nobody anticipated for) the Internet becomes a saving grace for most people with skills, well not everyone is lucky enough to nail that high flying job despite their qualifications,  I think preparing for the future is not just having a specific skills or profession, it requires more and since the future is uncertain you will never know until you get to that period.

[Newlifebtc]

Skill is good to have and it dont have to be as numerous as numbers, to be focused is person who have a perfect and be consistent to the such kind of skill, having different or thousands of skills will definitely divide the attention of the person's career and the person in particular won't be focused, and remember that some of the working skill listed is not every that can sustain live with that. Because it might work out some people but not all.

[proTECH77]

Future belong to those investors that prepared well. Now that many countries are try to recover from what covid-19 virus has collapsed during the pandemic. Many investors are well prepared for the future in case there is any economy shaking they can use bitcoin or other crypto to balance the shaking in the country.
Buy now that the price of bitcoin are gradually decreasing in the market, to enable you to make a reasonable profit in the future. Use this strategies to view the market price before you buy because their are many coins that look good to buy which are not good for future profit making.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Man, that was being said back in the 1950s about life in the 1980s.  Didn't happen.  There will always be a need for human input and work.  Always.

I would like to agree with this for sure. Human brain is a very complex processor which can probably reach 1 exaFLOP calculations per second but the fastest supercomputer Fugaku has just reached 400-500 petaFLOP calculations which when maximized can reach 1.42 exaFLOP per second. Although we are faster in terms of hardware and had successfully reached 1/2 of the human brain processing power, software hasn't reached the stage to make a completely self-dependent AI which can think on it's own. For the beta stage of a fully human equivalent AI to come out to the public, it might take another century or two but they might still not be able to challenge the human intelligence IMO.

Obviously the repetitive jobs will and should be replaced by AI and automated workforce like robots so that humans can work on the ways to improve these machines for performing even more complex tasks. If the current gen youngsters are still working on a manual job, they need to learn something new and move on to other jobs which won't be replaced by automations or AI anytime soon. For instance Manual QA job is a dying field and there would be absolutely no scope or future in working as one since automations are killing the respective field and might be replaced completely anytime soon within a few years.

Similarly gambling shitcoins for the next 100x alone won't sustain for long term and obviously it would reach a miserable death in a few more months. Rather than that, building something on top of cryptocurrencies like a new exchange or a new alt chain or a NFT or contributing towards Bitcoin and getting hired by Square will be beneficial for long term. Manual jobs will and should be replaced by automations and AI whereas humans should start focusing on ways to improve this world for the betterment of the future generations.

[Snappycoco]

I agree with some of your point being presented but I don't think that not going to school makes a difference also. I love in a 3rd world country where applying for a job needs a degree or a diploma even for those at the sales department. Well for me, it is wise for us to adopt in these changing times. 1 work will never suffice for the preparation of our future. It needs a decent paying job and a side hustle added by investments. In my country, working for the government is great rather than those private firms. It pays a decent salary but still small compare to sales. And btw, Social Media creators/influencers earns more money than most profession.

[jrrsparkles]

Particularly automobile industry is getting automatic which means the driver job will be obsolete in the future and jobs like being a labour in the industry wl be replaced by bots but certain industry will never take a bkw which is food and medical if I am nkt wrong so focus on those sectors to get better success rate and avoid being a technology guy because not everyone is going to become a developer since there will be no more consumer then.