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What line of jobs are going to see salaries/demand grow in the future and which jobs do you think are going to decline in terms of salaries and demand.
Decline -
Tech - Software Engineers, Systems Anaylsts (simply no need for these jobs in the US, all can be shipped offshore)
Education - Teachers (budget cuts in the future)
Admin type work - call center staff etc. (whatever is remaining)
Accountants - all this number crunching work is going to low cost countries
Real estate agents - will no longer need them, this role is going to become obsolete
What line of jobs are going to see salaries/demand grow in the future and which jobs do you think are going to decline in terms of salaries and demand.
Decline -
Tech - Software Engineers, Systems Anaylsts (simply no need for these jobs in the US, all can be shipped offshore)
Education - Teachers (budget cuts in the future)
Admin type work - call center staff etc. (whatever is remaining)
Accountants - all this number crunching work is going to low cost countries
Real estate agents - will no longer need them, this role is going to become obsolete
Hydrologists. Water is going to be more valuable than oil.
Ithnik that the health profession will gow in numbers of jobs but have seen their greatest rewards salary wise already.The top ten per cent within sciences and math will domiate from what I hear.Other than that financial will reciver and keep being paid well to invest money as more have to invest to reitre.
Decline:
Healthcare (except doctors) Competition, too many people switching to that field, easy entry
Some government jobs (replaced by faster or more efficient technology)
Decline -
Tech - Software Engineers, Systems Anaylsts (simply no need for these jobs in the US, all can be shipped offshore)
As an internet marketer, I have to say that I disagree. While you can have an offshore company develop any software you want, it takes American imagination and management to make sure everything works out the way a consumer will want it to, especially when it comes to software. Offshore labor is good to get all the annoying, repetitive tasks done that no American would ever want to do. But when it comes to making sure the software is user friendly, American labor is generally necessary.
Just like when it comes to building websites. A lot of American web design firms have their offshore partners build the template, but then American workers complete all the functionality components and anything else that requires imagination and creativity.
As an internet marketer, I have to say that I disagree. While you can have an offshore company develop any software you want, it takes American imagination and management to make sure everything works out the way a consumer will want it to, especially when it comes to software. Offshore labor is good to get all the annoying, repetitive tasks done that no American would ever want to do. But when it comes to making sure the software is user friendly, American labor is generally necessary.
Just like when it comes to building websites. A lot of American web design firms have their offshore partners build the template, but then American workers complete all the functionality components and anything else that requires imagination and creativity.
The same can be said of manufacturing. Many many companies are coming out and saying they were wrong about offshoring some of the manufacturing jobs to low wage countries. Intellectual property issues, skimming, state-based subsidies which heavily favor local businesses 99.9999% of the time, and low-skilled workers are all contributing to the 500,000 new manufacturing jobs that are available now. Manufacturers are also finding that when you export jobs, you export the learning of new technology and processes that go with it, so they're having to re-train hundreds of thousands who want work.
I think Jim McNerny, CEO of Boeing, said it best when he said that "we, lemminglike" exported jobs to places like China whilst attracted by low wages. Rising oil costs, rising wages in those previously-cheap countries, and aforementioned other issues are finally coming to a head. Why pay foreigners to do the work and then a year later turn around and have an exact copy domestically produced compete against you, while also having said competitor benefit from extremely slanted domestic rules?
No thank you! I can see why so many places are hiring now.
Anyway, my predictions for growth:
Skilled manufacturing (CNC machining, crane operators, people who fix the robots who do the assembly work, etc)
Engineering (specifically aerospace, mechanical, nano-tech, etc)
Man/machine interfaces (cybernetics and hardware/wetware interfaces)
software engineering (artificial intelligence and automated decision-making neural networks are the future)
Decline:
Low skilled work (like textiles, toys, basically anything that requires less than a high school diploma)
Business related majors, like MBA's, as they've become ubiquitous and increasingly supplanted by automation
University professorships - the education cost bubble has to pop eventually and low cost city colleges and foreign universities are becoming more attractive
The same can be said of manufacturing. Many many companies are coming out and saying they were wrong about offshoring some of the manufacturing jobs to low wage countries. Intellectual property issues, skimming, state-based subsidies which heavily favor local businesses 99.9999% of the time, and low-skilled workers are all contributing to the 500,000 new manufacturing jobs that are available now. Manufacturers are also finding that when you export jobs, you export the learning of new technology and processes that go with it, so they're having to re-train hundreds of thousands who want work.
I think Jim McNerny, CEO of Boeing, said it best when he said that "we, lemminglike" exported jobs to places like China whilst attracted by low wages. Rising oil costs, rising wages in those previously-cheap countries, and aforementioned other issues are finally coming to a head. Why pay foreigners to do the work and then a year later turn around and have an exact copy domestically produced compete against you, while also having said competitor benefit from extremely slanted domestic rules?
No thank you! I can see why so many places are hiring now.
Anyway, my predictions for growth:
Skilled manufacturing (CNC machining, crane operators, people who fix the robots who do the assembly work, etc)
Engineering (specifically aerospace, mechanical, nano-tech, etc)
Man/machine interfaces (cybernetics and hardware/wetware interfaces)
software engineering (artificial intelligence and automated decision-making neural networks are the future)
Decline:
Low skilled work (like textiles, toys, basically anything that requires less than a high school diploma)
Business related majors, like MBA's, as they've become ubiquitous and increasingly supplanted by automation
University professorships - the education cost bubble has to pop eventually and low cost city colleges and foreign universities are becoming more attractive
Absolutely agree with your post. Hiring in this country is and will continue to grow, in my opinion. Moral of the story is you get what you pay for. India, China, and all those countries with cheap labor have their people trained like robots. They do not promote creativity and individual thinking like American educational institutions do.
People have been wringing their hands about all the software dev jobs going overseas since the late 90s, but the growth in need continues to outpace the rate of outsourcing.
Plus as others have alluded to you get what you pay for. For template things like simple e-commerce websites fine that team in India can stamp it out just fine, but for more complex projects with constantly evolving dynamic business needs many a company has run into minefields trying to achieve success with outsourced developers.
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