Anxiety: What Is Our Children’s Future? With or without college degree
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+1 The ability to think and learn is highly underrated |
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| My Dd is double majoring in philosophy and public policy and I think she’ll do great. My ds will likely go for engineering and maybe construction management. I think they both have a lot to offer and a bright future if they are willing to work hard early on. |
Anonymous
Also the medical field. Two years of community college can get a degree in Nuclear Medicine Technologist with an average salary of $100k, Radiation Therapist, same salary, Surgical Technologist with salary about $60k. There are quite a few two year degrees in the medical field. If you end up really liking it there are options to go further. Old people who haven’t left the office job in 25 years don’t understand how the job market has changed. It’s no longer a college degree and then into an office with a desk and computer and a conference room. There are trades that make a good salary, there are new social media careers that can make a lot of money. It’s finding the right one that’s tough. |
Anonymous
As a student in college, I'll update this: don't major in trash majors like most of the liberal arts subjects. If you're a math major, make damned sure it doesn't take excess time to do your work (aka be talented). Otherwise, get the Econ or business degree and work on projects outside of class, join clubs that do real work, and get an internship as early as possible. As a physics major, everyone tells you that the major is useful BUT That is just not true if you're 99% of physics majors and need to spend a ton of time focusing on your major and don't have time to develop the type of skills companies are actually looking for (hint: physics is not useful). If you're highly intelligent and have no passion, do an engineering major. Your job/coursework will feed passion, rather than you actually needing one (and if it doesn't, who cares? You have a job). If you're still interested in computer science, either go to a top school or take the hard classes no one wants to take for your job. and lastly...if you're actually just interested in the humanities, that's good! You're a normal person who is interested in understanding the human condition. If you go to a top school, spend all your excess time after "skimming" your texts joining consulting groups so you can get a job. If you don't go to a top school, connect with alum and see if someone can get you a gig (or just do what a lot of humanities students do and kinda flail till you land on your feet). |
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AI won’t get rid of big corporations—in fact it will only make them bigger. Big corporations have interests to protect, and will have disputes with other businesses, the government and even consumers and consumer groups. So they are still going to need lawyers to advocate for their interests, in court and elsewhere. AI can help with some legal work like legal research, but it won’t replace people entirely. The world will still need lawyers, whether it wants them or not.
Weapons systems are only going to grow more sophisticated. Someone needs to know how to create them. Someone needs to know how to operate them. Someone needs to know how to fix them when they break down. AI can’t do all that, though it can be a tool to help with all that. Still going to need human beings in the defense industry. Hospitality. Our billionaire overlords will need someone to complain to when their drink hasn’t been mixed right, their luxury penthouse suite has a cracked window, and their private jet has been delayed by weather. They will want to be able to have a real person fired when they are upset about something, not just an AI bot. You can tell the same story about medicine. The world is still going to need doctors and nurses, though AI might become an important tool in their work. |
Anonymous
| It will be fine. We have had professions for decades that have no right to exist: realtors, apartment brokers, Walmart Greeters, dog bakers, diversity specialists, college counselors… |
Anonymous
| More Plumbers and HVAC techs. |
Anonymous
Advanced robots will do those work within 10 years. Look at all the robotic advancements out of Japan and China that US media doesn't report. |
Anonymous
Lord & Taylor went out of business years ago. |
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Without a college degree, don’t forget there’s good paying, safe, honest work through Only Fans (if attractive); others can still make a decent living as cam girls. |
Anonymous
This is a rude and ignorant thing to say - good lord the ageism on here. I've been in the work force for 40 years - started working at age 14 and have had several career changes. We "old people" have seen multiple changes over the years and we've learned to adapt and pivot whenever we needed to, as our parents and grandparents did before us. I have faith in our young people, they will too. Like a pp mentioned earlier, we think we're living in a special time - we're not. The world evolves, innovates, changes and people have to change with it. And I'm a strong believer in the humanities too - at least take some history classes; I'm often astonished at the lack of knowledge of world and even US history in this country! |
Anonymous
Already, there are advanced female robots for males available in Japan and they will replace many female roles. |
Anonymous
| One of my kids wants to be a doctor. I think he'll be OK. The other one -- I honestly have no idea. Thankfully he will most likely have an inheritance. |
Anonymous
Some radiologists, anesthesiologists and surgeons are being replaced now and more will be replaced in the near futere. Obviously not all but significant physicians' roles would be replaced by AI and robots. |
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| The wealthiest person in my family owns a small business in the home building trades. |