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What professions, types of jobs, or position titles are going to decline substantially in the next 10 years?
This can be due to globalization offshoring, automation, or just general technological changes.
Don't forget saturation or crowding in professions or jobs that don't necessarily decline in the next 10 years. You have to figure if certain jobs and professions decline due to offshoring, automation, technology, globalization etc... than people will naturally try to train for or get degrees in the fewer jobs and professions that don't decline. Probably causing stagnating or downward pressure on salaries for those jobs.
Something I think we're already experiencing in many professions but will probably become more pronounced as months and years pass.
Customers complain about not getting help, but they aren't willing to pay higher prices for that help. Thus, Wal Mart exists. In this country, voting happens with Dollars.
, and Amazon will grab much of the more expensive SKU stuff Wal Mart doesn't fare as well at.
That more expensive SKU stuff snatched by Amazon will, I'd bet, put several other chains out of business as brick and mortar, luring them online.
PS: Pharamacy retail will also shrink to a very miniscule size, as they go to mail order for the vast majority of prescriptions, with the cost differential on the patient widened tremendously (versus the small gap now) making it prohibitively expensive for them to insist on picking up monthly refills in person.
, and Amazon will grab much of the more expensive SKU stuff Wal Mart doesn't fare as well at.
That more expensive SKU stuff snatched by Amazon will, I'd bet, put several other chains out of business as brick and mortar, luring them online.
PS: Pharamacy retail will also shrink to a very miniscule size, as they go to mail order for the vast majority of prescriptions, with the cost differential on the patient widened tremendously (versus the small gap now) making it prohibitively expensive for them to insist on picking up monthly refills in person.
except for probably narcotics which will be tightly controlled or else the druggies will start applying for logistics jobs
Not sure if these have already been mentioned, but:
-Consumer electronics - the smartphone has rendered dozens of gadgets obsolete, and ppl haven't had a major incentive to upgrade TVs in awhile (3D TV flopped, 4K TV off to a slow start)
-Automotive - cars last longer and longer, younger ppl driving less/increasingly moving to cities (exception will be if a major gotta-have-it technology makes inroads and encourages fleet turnover, say autonomous or electric cars)
-Insurance agents, travel agents, other "agents" whose work can easily be done by consumers online (I'd make an exception for real estate agents, as there's a major difference between buying a home and buying a vacation or insurance policy)
Since manufacturing began it's decline many years ago, the economy has switched over to a service one. If we are talking about eliminating Service positions too, what will there be to do?
I suppose we should all get ready for the next American Idol tryouts.
The push to implement an effective two-class society is the most dangerous threat to our national security at the moment, in my opinion.
Quote:
"In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a lesser or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class, a ruling class, instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole."
Regarding shopping online, it doesn't work well with items that are too big to ship cheaply or with perishable items. I predict we will have furniture stores and supermarkets for years to come!
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, and Amazon will grab much of the more expensive SKU stuff Wal Mart doesn't fare as well at.
