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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The amount of replies on here talking about entering consulting or other lucrative career tracks with an art history Ivy degree are giving me hives.

First of all, almost none of us on this thread will be able to get our kids into an Ivy right now, unless seriously hooked (I say this an a parent at a private feeder that gets mentioned here) or rural low income. Wait another 5 years, spots will open up.

Secondly, the people who are already in consulting now who would be hiring your humanities grads are themselves deeply concerned about being replaced by AI. They won’t have time to hire more human overhead onto their team. The managers who migrate more of their budget and output to AI vs human employees will get to stay. That’s what pretty much all of the conferences and half of the strategic meetings I attend know talk about these days. Those entry level consulting jobs will be extinct by the time your DCs graduate if they are entering college now.

If you are filthy rich and your kids won’t have to work for a living, let them do whatever they want; spend it on at Ivy even. If they need to work for a living, best you can do is put them in robotics or chemical engineering (energy jobs), preferably at a state school so you can save at least $50k a year on tuition. Use that savings for a downpayment to buy them a commercial property near a city where AI data center buildout are getting approved so they can collect rent when they graduate. AI will replace a lot of jobs but can’t replace real estate and food, at least not for a while.

All of you who still care about the Ivy names are seriously delusional about what’s ahead. No one will care about the Yale name in 15 years; they care about the names of your AI agents. There will be drastically different markers for wealth, status and influence; the Ivies with all their 80-year-old tenure professors and old buildings made of stones that won’t have enough compute to run the most rudimentary AI data centers won’t be one of them. [/quote]

If the AIpocalypse is really coming (and it might be) no one can predict what jobs will be safe. Your guesses of robotics and chem engineering are no better than anyone else's. I know a robotics engineering grad who's currently unemployed. In the doomer scenario, why not yolo your way into a degree in medieval studies? Now is the time of monsters. You can always go into real estate later.[/quote]

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