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Professions that require advanced thinking - science/math/engineering/arts if you're lucky or professions that require smarts and dexterity in labor - electrician, plumber, HVAC, etc.
If you want to be part of the work force that designs the automation systems, the fields of physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, are safe bets. Personally if I could go back to college I would do computer engineering with a minor in mechanical. That way you get the necessary electrical engineering and computer skills to build a robot. And the basic mechanical engineering topics like thermodynamics, heat transfer, kinematics, and what not to make sure it survives in the physical world.
If you want to be part of the work force that designs the automation systems, the fields of physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, are safe bets. Personally if I could go back to college I would do computer engineering with a minor in mechanical. That way you get the necessary electrical engineering and computer skills to build a robot. And the basic mechanical engineering topics like thermodynamics, heat transfer, kinematics, and what not to make sure it survives in the physical world.
Its much easier said than done
All of those degrees have intense classes.
They are very math heavy and science classes involved
If you have a passion and patience for handling the class/workload then go for it.
Its much easier said than done
All of those degrees have intense classes.
They are very math heavy and science classes involved
If you have a passion and patience for handling the class/workload then go for it.
I got a degree in mechanical engineering. The hardest classes for me at least were vector calculus, differential equations, and partial differential equations. Those classes are no joke. But the major course work rarely used advanced math, maybe to explain a theory or a derivation. The grunt work of engineering for the most part consist of algebra, trigonometry, and very simple integration and derivation. Nothing insane like in the math classes.
For example to design the control system for say, the drive train of a robot, one simply defines the differential equation of motion of the system. No need to actually solve the thing. Even then there are mathematical tools that simplify that job. The rest is programming your control algorithm on a microcontroller, which is a programming problem. Design of the algorithm uses control theory stuff but that's also just algebra with very basic calculus.
Repair in all of its facets... electrical, plumbing, power.. (diesel engines, generators).
Interestingly their working on automating this. It will take a few decades thou. I imagine we will have drones snaking wires thru walls and pulling cable by 2030, There will still be electricians just less of them.
was about to say healthcare. i'm a therapist myself, but i've seen nurses be qualified for a wider variety of jobs (desk/clerical to direct bedside to, of course, management) at relatively similar payrates compared to us in therapy.
Health care costs to much there is a huge incentive to automate. I imagine those jobs won't be safe in the near future. My guess would be Pharmacists and X ray techs will be the first to go. I would say those in direct contact with patients will be safe for a while but every where else watch out.
Health care costs to much there is a huge incentive to automate. I imagine those jobs won't be safe in the near future. My guess would be Pharmacists and X ray techs will be the first to go. I would say those in direct contact with patients will be safe for a while but every where else watch out.
lab is the most automated so far in hospitals, can process 100-1000s of sample per hour with a handful of people. but it doesn't matter because even then, there's a shortage of that handful of people
waiting for the automated phlebotomy machine to be wide spread, think the main hiccup is people aren't willing to stick their arm into it without a person guiding the needle
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