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It's quite simple for those starting their careers...
Take part in designing and developing the automation process and technologies - whether it be robotics or the software or both. Then you will have lots of work to do for the next few decades as more and more things are automated.
Auditing jobs will still be around since auditing is necessary even for things that are automated. Obviously the audit process will be more automated, but humans will need to be involved quite a bit.
The automated robots and machines do need to be maintain
Somebody has to watch them and troubleshoot them in case something goes wrong.
So in a similar way it will create new jobs.
YOU'T CAN AUTOMATE EVERY SINGLE THING
Automation creates about one new job for every 100 it eliminates.
I don't know if that's true. A handful of people working on computers now do the work that hundreds of engineers and draftsmen used to do. When was the last time you did a hand stress analysis of a truss? You don't have to. You just load the autocad drawing and push a button. It will spec your materials and give you a cost analysis in about one second. When was the last time you went to someone's office to install an OS update? There are no more people working in IT today than there were 25 years ago, and that is in a hugely expanded field. Gene mapping is done by microprocessors. Camera optics are designed by computer and the prototype is pooped out without the touch of skilled hands.
Most STEM jobs have always been scut work. Only a tiny handful actually require any creativity.
I don't know if that's true. A handful of people working on computers now do the work that hundreds of engineers and draftsmen used to do. When was the last time you did a hand stress analysis of a truss? You don't have to. You just load the autocad drawing and push a button. It will spec your materials and give you a cost analysis in about one second. When was the last time you went to someone's office to install an OS update? There are no more people working in IT today than there were 25 years ago, and that is in a hugely expanded field. Gene mapping is done by microprocessors. Camera optics are designed by computer and the prototype is pooped out without the touch of skilled hands.
Most STEM jobs have always been scut work. Only a tiny handful actually require any creativity.
If you can create intellectual property, you will always have a lot of value. Some engineers are strong enough to do that. Most aren't. The smartest guy in the room will always be in demand.
Times have changed over the past few centuries, and the jobs people work at have changed greatly. And they are still changing, with some jobs becoming a thing of the past, being replaced by new jobs.
The issue is rather that medium skilled jobs are getting destroyed, because they are easy to replace.
I feel we might end up in a situation where some people earn a lot of money doing high skilled jobs, while the majority have to do low skilled jobs like bartender, chef, fast food worker, and support. The problem with these jobs is that they are often boring, has unstable hours, pay little, and not very suited for people who go to university.
That person was laid off from a IT support position, that's not really a STEM job, because you don't need a degree to do it. In addition it leads to nowhere, because employers are not paying their skilled workers more.
And that is an issue with STEM, it is a hard field to get into. University does a lousy job preparing you for the job market.
A good portion of the American populace is already on some kind of state aid program. Jobs like Walmart seem to be today's version of a workfare system. You see countries like Switzerland dabble with the idea of a basic income system. The most socially advanced countries recognize the situation society will be in eventually.
Sure, some argue that jobs eliminated by technology will be replaced by other jobs. But the new jobs created will require people of high intelligence and advanced education, and will be few in number with employers being extremely selective. It's not like we're going from the farms to the factory industrial revolution era. The factories used to employ millions of people. Tech companies only need a handful of extremely bright people, from elite educational institutions to run it's operations.
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