White collar jobs are all about to become obsolete. What are you doing to prepare?

[Anonymous]

I work in big tech and I am seeing and living this every day. Google what anthropic ceo and lead developer said this week. I am pulling my kids out of private school and moving to locl area and publics asap, investing everything. Still figuring out what to recommend my kids learn to give them a shot of viable career but mainly hunkering down and saving.

I am also not a doomsday prepper type at all - I work in project management. But it’s clear as day in all our work.

[Anonymous]

My boys are apprenticing in the trades. Plumbing and HVAC.

They’ll be just fine.

[Anonymous]

I’ve already sold my house and moved to a rural area, pulled my kids out of school (pointless, only AI needs school now) and instead am teaching them to live off the land. Bow hunting, mushroom foraging, making shelters out of leaves, whittling sticks, that sort of thing.

[Anonymous]

This thread is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

I want to agree with you but having just lost both jobs (husband and myself/ one of us in tech), mid-career, facing a tight market, having to buy health insurance, mortgage and two kids…. It’s scary as hell! We’ve lived below our means and saved over the years. Doesn’t matter. We’re scrambling to find any work that will pay benefits. We’re also in a field that is one of the first to get cut in lean times. Is heading toward being replaced by Ai and will probably be non-existent. What’s worse is mid-life it’s harder to find work, your health starts to become an issue and you’re sandwiched between your own kids and your aging parents. I’m not trying to be doom and gloom and we’re just one of a sh!t ton of people in our situation. You see it on our level. What happens when it hits low wage workers with no other options, no savings. From top down, of course, some will be better positioned than others to weather a storm. I’m not a doomsday prepper… but, I’ve always been observant of my surroundings and people and felt when tides shift (metaphorically) and something is and has been shifting. On a positive note, we try to eat well, exercise, get sleep and prioritize being grateful for what we do have. I have two boys in middle and high school so we are really looking at how we encourage them given the changing landscape and using their interests and aptitudes and what are careers that will be needed- love the post above about trades!

[Anonymous]

How many threads do we need on this topic.

There is literally nothing we can do about this (I guess aside from learning a trade, but if this does happen, wouldn’t the market be way over saturated?)

OP sounds crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve already sold my house and moved to a rural area, pulled my kids out of school (pointless, only AI needs school now) and instead am teaching them to live off the land. Bow hunting, mushroom foraging, making shelters out of leaves, whittling sticks, that sort of thing.

Good on you. I am going to encourage my children, both male and female, to pursue prostitution and/or stripping. There will always be a need for that.

[Anonymous]

I’m saving to pay off my house so my kids always have a home even if there are no well paying jobs anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many threads do we need on this topic.

There is literally nothing we can do about this (I guess aside from learning a trade, but if this does happen, wouldn’t the market be way over saturated?)

OP sounds crazy.

You sound crazy trying to control the amount of discussion going and not seeming to understand that these discussion are about what CAN be done when you ask what can be done.

It’s brainstorming, PP, don’t read it if you’re not interested, but don’t come on here calling names and trying to shut it down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m saving to pay off my house so my kids always have a home even if there are no well paying jobs anymore.

Because there will never be an issue with paying property taxes….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many threads do we need on this topic.

There is literally nothing we can do about this (I guess aside from learning a trade, but if this does happen, wouldn’t the market be way over saturated?)

OP sounds crazy.

You sound crazy trying to control the amount of discussion going and not seeming to understand that these discussion are about what CAN be done when you ask what can be done.

It’s brainstorming, PP, don’t read it if you’re not interested, but don’t come on here calling names and trying to shut it down

I am convinced there are some people on this site who love misery and relish in the idea of us all being destitute on the streets. There are several threads on jobs that WON’T be replaced by AI and (I’m convinced) the same annoying, smarmy poster responds to decent suggestions with ‘BUT ACKSHUALLY…a robot will clean bed pans in the future…’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m saving to pay off my house so my kids always have a home even if there are no well paying jobs anymore.

Because there will never be an issue with paying property taxes….

Case in point why these threads are so annoying.

PP has suggested a reasonable solution and someone immediately has to shoot it down or find a loophole.

If there is truly nothing that can be done about this we all might as well just off ourselves. And definitely do not have kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve already sold my house and moved to a rural area, pulled my kids out of school (pointless, only AI needs school now) and instead am teaching them to live off the land. Bow hunting, mushroom foraging, making shelters out of leaves, whittling sticks, that sort of thing.

Thank you for this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many threads do we need on this topic.

There is literally nothing we can do about this (I guess aside from learning a trade, but if this does happen, wouldn’t the market be way over saturated?)

OP sounds crazy.

This. We can’t all do trades. The demand is relatively fixed — if anything it will decline as fewer white collar professionals build new homes with 3 zone HVAC etc, and people have less money so put off repairs.

I guess we can plumb the cooling systems at data centers…

But trades don’t scale like other careers. I have no idea why Musk is worried about depopulation, if we have far fewer jobs, no UBI, then fewer people should help on balance.

[Anonymous]

Never had a white collar job. Learned to invest and there's no way to return from that. I don't even care if my kids go to college. They know money comes from money and then maybe work.
Trade would be more suitable for the older one. Younger one has an investment account which should be millions by the time he is 30.
I'm moving abroad where property taxes are very low and healthcare is affordable. Will be come back to DC/FL few months a year.
My own money should continue to grow faster than I can spend. I don't need the SS payments, but will take them at 62. I can do better job investing the money than government's return for waiting.