What are the new tech jobs of the future?

[Renegade]

With the rapid advancement of AI and it threatening to gobble up lots of traditional jobs or at least augment them, what do you think will be the future of tech?

For anyone in their early 20s and even younger about to decide their career trajectory, what should they focus on? Which skills, disciplines, technologies would still be relevant and in demand 5 years from now, or even 10 years.

How should they navigate the journey so as not to repent their career choices later?

Nearly 40% of current skills are expected to become outdated by 2030, necessitating significant upskilling and reskilling efforts.

 

[6pack]

plumber, carpenter, electrician, mechanics, doctors, civil engineers, govt jobs. jobs that ai or software cannot touch/replace would be the right choice.

 

[k_m_Arya]

Lawyers, accountants, real estate brokers do not underestimate them will surely be there lol. I think sales/influencing is a soft skill which won't be replaced by Ai anytime now.

 

[Emperor]

plumber, carpenter, electrician, mechanics, doctors, civil engineers, govt jobs. jobs that ai or software cannot touch/replace would be the right choice.

Yes, everything where you can't replace human, such trade/service/business will be a Super hit and in a decade ground workers may get more than few white collar jobs

Lawyers, accountants, real estate brokers do not underestimate them will surely be there lol. I think sales/influencing is a soft skill which won't be replaced by Ai anytime now.

in above trade ONLY Trusted/dedicated will survive, quick money makers all time earn quickly and vanished.

 

[w.ilyas]

For one thing, its quite clear that it will be an integral part of the future of tech, as people will now prefer AI to become part of every consumer tech that is now currently in the works. And any tech that does not have AI will be forced to adopt it in some way or the other. Whether that means it will play out nicely and become a hit totally depends, as we remember after screens and internet became cheap, modern fridges and washing machines were slapped with a screen computer. But how much did they really sell and do we want to buy one even today?
As for tech jobs, software engineers may become the next plumber/electrician/carpenter (no more white collar). So you will see them everywhere fixing someone's robo air conditioner, or smartass sofa, or neural television.

plumber, carpenter, electrician, mechanics, doctors, civil engineers, govt jobs. jobs that ai or software cannot touch/replace would be the right choice.

Remove government jobs from irreplaceable, any govt that finds it can save a ton of tax payers money by giving it to AI, it will take the plunge. And add teaching to irreplaceable atleast at elementary level where a robot can't imitate or adopt a human's compassion.

 

[DigitalDude]

Robot Service

 

[6pack]

Remove government jobs from irreplaceable, any govt that finds it can save a ton of tax payers money by giving it to AI, it will take the plunge. And add teaching to irreplaceable atleast at elementary level where a robot can't imitate or adopt a human's compassion.

Front facing (customer facing) jobs won't go away. There's lots of jobs where people need access to some human in govt to sort out some problem in billing etc. AI can't do that work Similarly jobs like judges, lawyers were thought to be good for AI but we can already see that AI can be made to bend in one way or other by feeding it only one kind of data. You get my point. AI is just a tool like a hammer. How we use it is up to us. We can decide to hammer down everything with it (like companies are doing) or not.

 

[blr_p]

AI is just a tool like a hammer. How we use it is up to us.

Exactly

We can decide to hammer down everything with it (like companies are doing) or not.

Companies will throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. (spaghetti metaphor. If spaghetti sticks when you thow it at the wall then it means it's ready to eat)

People are assuming everything will stick. We don't know that as yet