So remember that depressing as fuuuuuuhk report that said 70% of us are studying for jobs that won’t exist in a decade? And that all our jobs were going to be taken over by these geniuses?
WELL, here’s the good news: a study has identified which jobs are going to experience massive growth over the next decade, so you can get cracking with your career / study / life goals.
The Care Givers – social workers, fitness instructors, nannies, beauty therapists. Pro tip: if listening to people unload their person crap makes you go like this, these jobs aren’t for you:
The Technocrats – electrical engineers, medical researches, business entrepreneurs, etc. This lot are highly skilled knowledge-workers who have shit-loads of training, and, more importantly, earn shitloads of cash.
The Specialist Professions – accountants, dentists, urban planners, teachers, etc. P’s get degrees, degrees get you job stability in one of the above.
The Doers – plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. The world will always need people who are all over their particular set of skills. You can 3D print a house, but you can’t predict the weatherboard.
The Creatives – stylists, social media engineers, photographers, yoga instructors, and hopefully internet pop culture writers (*tugs collar*).
The study, by leading trend commentator Bernard Salt and commissioned by the nbn, reckons we’ll see another three million jobs created by 2030, and has some pretty insightful things to say about how we’ll be working in the future.
On the flipside, it also predicts broadband will change the way we work because of shit like video conferencing and ordering materials. Groundbreaking. Get those nbn plugs in, DING DING DING.
If any of the above is duhhhpressing because you’re either in the wrong job, or you are and you fucking hate it, then here’s the next best thing:
Otherwise, we’re out, soz mates.
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