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30 Careers Not To Choose If You Want To Have A Job In 5-10 Years, According To These People
Few things in life are immune to change. Even in as little as a year or a decade, people’s lives can flip completely upside down or take a turn so sharp, they might not even remember said life before it.
Unsurprisingly, the way people earn their bread and butter can change quite drastically, too. For some people, that might entail computerizing or modernizing certain processes, for others – getting better tools, better working conditions, or better compensation. However, for some employed individuals, the change might not be for the better, especially if their jobs are likely to become obsolete over time.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what they believe such jobs might be. One user asked them what professions they believe are going to get wiped out in the next five-to-ten years, and quite a few netizens shared their two cents on the matter. If your curiosity has been awakened, you can find their answers on the list below.
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#1
I hope it’s influencers.
sbj 10 months ago
I don't class it as a profession, it's just a tiny minority of people getting money for nothing
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I'd rather be called a dude than a chick. Cis female here.
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Influencial people will always exist. Priests, politicians, rich people,...
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#2
My friend is an artist. She made a living off commissions on Twitter. That site going to sh**e and the rise of AI has already caused her to lose 80-90% of the commissions she was getting a few years ago. She’s currently working a minimum wager to keep what she can in her account while she figures out what to do.
draggar:
This is one of the saddest parts of AI. We thought AI would take over mundane tasks so we could pursue things like the arts, yet here we are, doing mundane things while the arts are being taken over by AI.
Even our community alerts pages on FB are now adding AI generated images with every post. It's annoying AF 99.99999% of the time.
Earonn - 10 months ago
In all fairness, losing commissions on Twitter might be rather due to the platform becoming a cesspool than anything else. Hope she will find enough customers soon. One good thing I see is the backlash against companies, agencies, universities etc. that use AI images.
Dragons Exist 10 months ago
True, but most Twitter artists now also have (or have completely switched to) Bluesky
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 10 months ago
My amount hasn't changed, but maybe it's the market I work with? Actual creative types are very very picky about their character designs, and if it isn't just right on the design then they won't accept it. They also pay very well.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
So people with eight fingers and three legs isn't going to cut it? Well, that's AI stuffed then.
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Sven Horlemann 10 months ago
Well, creative jobs will suffer. AI creates pictures, videos, music. And gets better every day. And more accepted. And it is cheaper.
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Maybe it'll be like when photography was put into existence- art won't be eradicated (people will come to artists if they want something to look nicer, or something similar), as well as pushing more creativity from artists, developing new styles and things like that.
TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago (edited)
She should try to get a foot in the Furry fandom then, AI artwork is quite despised and people appearently have too much money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kira Okah 10 months ago
Yep, that furries pay well for commission artwork is very true. Yes I am speaking from experience, even if you don't do rude (I don't), they still pay very well and will re-commission the same artists for multiple pieces.
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In the USA?
- Teachers
- Lawyers
- Scientists
- Engineers
Because education, law, and science are suddenly considered anti-American. Without education, everything eventually crumbles.
Even before this Trump administration, Americans have been losing jobs to foreigners that are better educated than us. We’re losing those jobs because Americans just aren’t qualified, simple as that.
At the rate things are going right now, we won’t have any professions left that require a brain.
iseefractals 10 months ago
Education is failing because schools are no longer teaching children HOW to think, but instead WHAT to think...while parents continue to support the assbackwards notion that everyone deserves a trophy for simply existing in proximity to those who actually succeed. The rest, unfortunately yeah. Both sides of the aisle are eager to deny different area's of science in service of an agenda, both sides are eager to ignore differing laws and rights in service of an agenda. And yes, while foreigners are often better educated....they also have a much better work ethic, and are willing to maintain that work ethic while working much, much cheaper. The kids who got trophies for losing grow to expect top dollar for minimal skill and effort.
Tamra 10 months ago (edited)
I'm curious as to how both sides of the aisle are denying different areas of science in service of an agenda. Though I do agree with your statement about students not being taught to think critically.
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FreeDragon 10 months ago
The Trump regime already is starting to cancel international science projects. Foreign scientist are now leaving the country.
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David 10 months ago (edited)
um, literally none of those fields are dying in the US. Lawyers, scientists (which included engineers, they are scientists) are on the rise. In fact Trump's push against the Humanities in Higher Ed has led Uni's to actually shift more money to the sciences from the humanities. Teacher shortage issues have been around since the 90s, and why we bring in thousands of teachers from the Philippines every year on Visas. But that is not new, thats been around for decades.
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago (edited)
I am a research engineer. I don't know if I'd call myself a scientist. But fair enough. I'll just add that a lot of my colleagues have been laid off in recent years
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Sue 10 months ago
Programming has gone too sht in the last 10 years at least, and I think partly because H1B allows employers to hire programmers more cheaply. Disney laid off their programmers & tried to force them to train their lesser paid replacements in order to get a severance package. As someone who worked with programmers on3 big projects & used a TON of them, I can't find a decent database at all. My daughter's work just replaced their "green screen" data entry program with Excel, & it now takes an hour when it used to take seconds to enter, if everything works. Not to mention, less educated or just plain dumber people can program now since there are programs to make programs, and none of them care about the end user. So my experience has been the more imported programmers, the worse the problem has gotten. Low pay & no support has run off most good teachers, so we are left with mostly bad ones. I have a teaching degree, but only lasted 3 months before going back to to the corporate world.
Rick Murray 10 months ago
As a child of the eighties, my take on it is that the younger generation of programmers have no clue about what is actually going on inside. They simply write code that uses framework upon framework and is so far removed from the underlying hardware that there's no way in hell it can ever be efficient. When I was growing up, that stuff just didn't exist so we would prod the hardware directly using code that we assembled by hand using a chart of the instructions and an understanding of what was actually happening. I can empathise with the loss of the green screen to the horrid UI mess. I've tried hard to avoid Office as it seems to try to do everything, and end up sucking at all of it. So horribly bloated.
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Sven Horlemann 10 months ago
Well, studying aslo means you learn critical thinking. Not wanted in the US.
Skywitness 10 months ago
Idiocracy was supposed to be 500 years in the future. We arrived very early.
Hidalgo 10 months ago
Was a software engineer and a scientist before that. Know a lot of former engineers and scientists. A lot of them quit for careers in real estate, brokerages, finance, etc because salaries weren’t great for engineers/scientists compared to those. Plus lack of respect, work demands, and high chance of layoffs are there. Very few make the big bucks you hear about and the work is often boring
#4
Any sort of translation work.
jak_hungerford:
My wife is a translator and this is something she is really concerned about. Her projects were cut in half this year compared to 2024.
Orysha 10 months ago
As a translator myself, I strongly disagree. AIs still can't make really good translations except maybe of very short texts in very specific fields and yes there is more MTPE work since 2024. We are still very far from C3PO.
Kathy Dragonfly 10 months ago
the problem is that people and corporations are increasingly happy with crappy translations.
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Lost Panda 10 months ago
Not so sure 100%. Document translation maybe, but there will still be a demand for live real-time translation
cerinamroth 10 months ago
You mean interpreting, then? A completely separate discipline.
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cerinamroth 10 months ago
No, you have a friend who interprets what patients say to doctors; it's different.
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Lyone Fein 10 months ago
Nah. Just different languages. Far less European and Latin based languages (to and from English) will be needed. But much more work will be available for things like Chinese - Arabic translators, Russian - Arabic, and still plenty of English - Chinese work.
Kira Okah 10 months ago
Can definitely say so on English - Chinese, I've seen the demand rise pretty well, I'm a bit slow at this one though so I can't take any of them with strict output times. Though Chinese - English is still in heavy demand around ports here, where containers of goods come in. Maybe I should go looking at some of them.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago (edited)
In case of the manga/anime translation industry it's the fault of the translators themselves for altering material, meanings and whole narratives to fit their own ideals - Japanese studios are developing translation AI to get rid of that unreliable dependency
#5
Teaching. We’re leaving en masse due to low pay and terrible conditions, and it’s only getting worse.
Caspur42:
I live in the south and it’s way worse than people know. We have a teacher on fb who regularly posts things that are clearly not true like 20 million dead from famine in the US during the Great Depression.
The good teachers are fleeing in mass and leaving the state.
Sue 10 months ago
Somebody's gotta babysit those kids so their parents can slave away at corporate jobs! I think they're aiming to get rid of public education - they'll let churches & private schools run everything - you want to go to school - you gotta pay.
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Tom Brincefield 10 months ago
In Ohio, the legislature has announced that they will not be fully funding the public school system in the next budget, despite court orders to fix the funding system & a law they passed requiring they fund it. But they did find the money in the budget to give to private schools in the state, which would have been more than enough to cover the shortfall in the public school funding. But the rich folks need the money more.
Lila Allen 10 months ago
Give it a few years and the only schools left with teachers will be elementary schools due to age ( in the US) everything else will be warehouses with online " teachers"
Sue 10 months ago
And those who graduated elementary school will be put directly to work. We are heading for a fourth world country status, whether China or Russia takes over or not.
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Laura Williams 10 months ago
That we pay teachers so little when they educate our children. Expect them to pay for classroom supplies. We also expect them to put up with unruly kids with no help from the parents. It's actually surprising that they aren't paid better.
Royal Stray 10 months ago
In some university courses for teaching 98% of the students quit just due to how bad the course is, or how useless it's making itself out to be. (Some of the courses are essentially teaching that the way the course is being taught is a horrible way to teach...) I hope this isn't as common in the rest of the world as it seems to be where I live
DowntownStevieB 10 months ago
It's the same for nurses. Medical Assistant's (not a PA) and seem to be replacing them largely. MA's you don't pay as much but do rely on to do tasks traditionally assigned to RN's. Both have the same core classes.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
Education needs to be REFORMED. The rote memorization least-common-denominator education system that has been in place for 100 years needs an upgrade. The AIs are smarter than your teacher and with a structured curriculum, your child could learn the JOY of learning new things and new industries could be created to create educational content in all sorts of form factors (books, movies, video games, story telling, story writing, philosophy, etc). The AI age will enable this. Teachers can evolve to become guides helping children find their true interests instead of dictating garbage that doesn't really apply to real life for 99% of people. When's the last time you used geometry? When's the last time you shared your memoized answer of when Columbus sailed over the ocean blue? (Never?) I had to UNLEARN the 5-paragraph essay because you know who never wants to see a 5-paragraph essay? My boss!
M O'Connell 10 months ago (edited)
The problem with AI is that it is not accountable for its actions. Nobody is accountable for the actions of an AI, which is why they are so easy to use for evil profit-based purposes (especially since every AI model in existence is controlled by a mega-corporation that serves only to generate profit). An AI cannot make content relatable to the individual students' experiences. YOU haven't used geometry, I use it every day. Each individual person is different. A school experience that doesn't offer full and complete education is fine for people who will spend their entire career working in retail, but what about everyone else?
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Dar Mal 10 months ago
Well, the topic above is dying industries....the AI responses have just been more populous
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I used to do court transciption (not stenography). Basically I download an audio file and type what's spoken in the courtroom verbatim (within style rules). The industry has been trying to implement speech to text software for years but it's been too c**p up until very recently. I've since upskilled to an "editor" where instead of typing manually I correct the generated transcript.
It still struggles with speaker differentiation and formatting but it's improved so drastically within the last 3 years it's only a matter of time until traditional transcriptionists are no longer necessary.
Donna Peluda 10 months ago
I didn't whole online programming course dictating my notes to my laptop . Then I would tidy them up and format. I passed
Upstaged75 10 months ago
I've worked with people who do captioning for deaf people at live events/meetings. The AI tools that have come out recently will likely put them out of business. It's so much less expensive than a live person.
#7
My hope is that car salespeople go extinct. The dealership model is antiquated and unnecessary. There’s no good reason why one can’t buy a car completely electronically. Choose car. Add options. Add to basket. Select financing. Complete purchase.
ScarletRos 10 months ago
I would still like to test drive a car before I drive it. But that just requires the car to be available, not necessarily with a salesperson trying to push me into buying it if I decide it doesn’t suit me after all.
Hidalgo 10 months ago
In the US the states that are most resistant to getting rid of dealerships are the most conservative ones. Often the dealers are some of the wealthiest in those states and bribe the most
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 10 months ago (edited)
My partner just bristled, being the driver here. Not going to touch a car without being able to physically see and drive it. New or used. With new, not every car is suitable for every person and without experiencing the vehicle or how it drives you're not going to know. With used, used cars can have faults, maybe the seller is hiding something important that has happened to the vehicle that you can only tell by driving it. Car salespeople can be slimy, but full digital car purchases absolutely not.
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I am a small woman and I need to test drive a car before I buy it. Can the seat/steering wheel/mirrors be adjusted to fit me? There have been times when they haven't.
BarfyCat 10 months ago
Same here! If the driver's seat can't be raised up it ain't gonna work! Same thing for really tall people. They need to actually sit in the car to make sure their head won't be smushed against the roof!
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Aileen Grist 10 months ago
I bought my car online and had it delivered to me in November 24. It came with a 14 day money back guarantee. A friend returned his because it leaked. No problem.
Donna Peluda 10 months ago
I did, a second hand one..a knew more or less what I wanted. Car died on Monday, Tuesday I browsed the web, did a transfer and wednesday morning a very friendly delivery man dropped it of at my door.
Tom Hutcherson 10 months ago
What ScarletRos said. It's stupid to buy a car without driving it first.
Charles Whitaker 10 months ago
You can do that now. Just look at the dealers inventory online, find the car you want, go in and pay MSRP. But most buyers want to negotiate the price, and that requires a salesperson.
April Pickett 10 months ago
I know car salespeople are human (?) but this petty bickering back and forth and having to ask the manager about everything is so irritating. If you can't make the sale, get me the person who can.
#8
I don't think wiped out but I do think a lot of digital designers are going to replaced with AI.
chick-with-stick:
My brother was a digital designer for a popular video game. He did this for 20 years. They just let him go as well as a bunch of other designers. S**t sucks. He’s so damn talented.
sbj 10 months ago
I don't believe we can ever replace people who are capable of original thought completely with AI
iseefractals 10 months ago
AI could be having a short term impact, but it's just as likely the result of the games industry being in decade long downward spiral. Look at Dragon Age Veil guard, in development for a decade, development cost of $200-$250 million, plus another 200-300 million in marketing costs. It is an absolutely beautiful game, and well optimized (a rarity these days) but...it's soulless. Bad writing, bad story, bad characters, bad dialog, repetitive combat, lackluster mechanics. It was originally meant to be a multiplayer game, which they scrapped while retaining the quest/story progression mechanics that make everything feel like a chore. Avowed, 5 year dev time, $100 million. It looks bad, it runs worse, the story, writing and dialog are...forgettable. Forespoken, concord, Red Fall, atomic Heart...it's a long list. Beloved, and once popular studios keep shutting their doors, because it doesn't matter how pretty the game is, if every other aspect of it sucks.
FreeDragon 10 months ago (edited)
There is a video comparison of Skyrim and Avowed. The former absolutely destroys the latter. And Skyrim was not even fully modded.
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MC293856 10 months ago
AI is not replacing people!! It is a tool!!!! If you do not learn it, embrace it and make it part of your tool box. Then yes you will probably lose your job to someone who has embraced AI. I work as a designer for an ad agency, fyi!!
#9
Anything AI can do.
It will also come as younger people lose.the ability to write, think analytically, etc.
AI will give quick on demand results and answers.
Humans need to reason through something and develop knowledge or expertise.
Easy answers will make humanity dumb.
michellemartin 10 months ago
Critical thinking is so important, and lack of is one of the reasons the US is where we are right now.
Andrew Keir 10 months ago
Critical thinking is based on true facts as well as logical thought. Without unbiased reporting, there is no point in teaching thought. We're stuffed.
Load More Replies... Tom Hutcherson 10 months ago
Read what Carl Sagan said in his book The Demon Haunted World; Science As A Candle in the dark. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s
Royal Stray 10 months ago
Except that with this AI will also disappear and become more unable to do things. It's like with AI art, if the idea isn't there the AI can't do anything. It needs data and an idea to be able to work. It's not magic, it can't (at least not yet) take something from nothing. It doesn't (currently) have creativity. Also if we focus on the importance of those skills it is less likely for people to loose it. (When I was in school the only thing that mattered to be good at was essentially Math, if you were good at math you could even skip a grade, if you were good at math you were seen as a genius. If you were good at languages or reading or writing then at best nobody really cared and at worst you were essentially told to stop wasting time and try harder at math. If that attitude had not been there I'd like to imagine that more people my age would be better at reading and writing, not to mention the kids that are in school now)
April Pickett 10 months ago
Why would they do that? AI is easier and it's usually right. Who cares if young people can't do all that stuff? They don't seem to mind.
#10
By the looks of it, being a federal employee.
momasana:
Them, and us who rely on federal funding for our jobs. I'm a research administrator at a university and let's just say that things aren't looking too hot right now.
geekonthemoon:
I've been saying that people used to cozy up to fed govt jobs but if they're no longer secure, people arent going to take them and they're going to have trouble filling the roles with good candidates.
Then!!! We can just hire Elon to do it all with one of his many perfect private companies, right? 😭
Donna Peluda 10 months ago (edited)
I think this applies to many countries. In Spain state workers are civil servants and it's virtually impossible to lay them off. I've just been to the local town hall office in my area. 1 person in reception, 1 security guard at the door. Another person at the information desk. I went upstairs were 7 people doing nothing. There are 2 more floors in the building. I was the only person not working there. We need to trim the fat, but pouncing round the stage like a gay monkey with a chainsaw is not the solution.
M O'Connell 10 months ago
I've heard it expressed as Musk being a crackhead, tearing all the copper wiring out of the federal government.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 10 months ago
I figured the duo would have to backtrack a bit. They're quietly rehiring scientists from the FDA and CDC.
#11
Journalist.
I covered the NBA for over a decade, but from 2019 until now — the last five years — I’ve been laid off seven times as companies shift to AI-authored stories. I’ve been offered AI editing roles for half my typical pay which is unsustainable. I know other writers from other fields are probably feel the same squeeze as I am.
#12
My masters in data science feels pretty useless right now. Saturated market, and AI is being programmed to do coding, analyze trends, create other models, and prepare reports.
It’s terrifying but I hope I’m wrong :( Shocked I didn’t see this reply as one of the first comments.
Nimitz 10 months ago
I work in the gaming industry. We're already losing coders and seeing team reductions. Anyone who works in a modern day office that specializes in digital work is seeing this. The layoffs are already rolling out, and future projects are being cancelled/postponed so that companies have excuses to layoff even more people, then replace them with automation. We are being replaced by AI in real time.
Orion Red 10 months ago
have some hope. my employer just sent out a new policy about NOT using AI or any sort of modeling without permission. They mentioned things like stick picks, operations, marketing, and due diligence. So at least one business knows not to turn itself over to the agents.
Kit Black 10 months ago
They'll keep that policy until the cost of humans s too high to be competitive.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 10 months ago
Those unemployment office staff will be cut back too. What are the feds going to do? There will be major unemployment, major homelessness, and major food shortages that you can't afford anyway. You are looking at a major problem that has to be addressed or there will be riots and wars. A big thought, there will be no more children. If you can't feed yourself, how are you going to feed them?
#13
Audiobook Narrators. I am related to one and know several others. Apparently, they've combined existing voices to make different types of AI voice. Feed the text of a book into the AI, wait a bit, and you have an audiobook. It has already caused a significant reduction in the amount of available work.
Kira Okah 10 months ago
A bad one. LLMs don't do tone and inflection well, and it stands out sharply.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
That's true today, but it won't be true forever.
Load More Replies... sbj 10 months ago
I hope this doesn't happen, I love audio books especially if it's a lengthy series and a real voice can really get into the role of a much loved character
Admiralu 10 months ago
Don’t use Spotify. They just doubled down on AI content.
Load More Replies... Sarah Belt 10 months ago
I've picked up books I'd never have otherwise heard of just because I've loved the narrator. People like Scott Brick, Kate Reading, and Michael Kramer add so much dimension to stories through their interpretation. It's a shame we're ceding creativity to reductive LLMs. Society's mental entropy.
TTorrest Author 10 months ago
Beat me to it. I was also going to say that some readers are fans of specific audiobook narrators and will buy books just because their names are attached to them. I made a point to choose popular narrators for my titles for this very reason!
Load More Replies... Mimi M 10 months ago
Scrolled all the way down to say that nothing is like a really well-performed audiobook. For some reason it's even more impressive (and for me, more enjoyable) when it's a single person doing all the voices. The combination of changing personas completely while still maintaining total fluidity is a pleasure to experience.
quentariel 10 months ago
This is one that I don't think is gonna happen very soon. Most people are quite particular about what kind of narrators they like in their audiobooks, and even amongst human narrators there are wide variety of them. AI voices can maybe find place in some non-fiction narration, but I don't think they'll surpass humans in reading novels. Hearing all the little quirks and emotions in narration are things that make audio books great.
Mrs.C 10 months ago
It's super unsettling to listen to most AI narrators. They send your brain into the Uncanny Valley pretty quickly. I was a few chapters into a fan fic when I realized the odd cadence and pronouncing of punctuation was AI. It jerked me out of the story far too much to be useable.
Ervin Conn 10 months ago
I will listen to anything that Stephen Briggs narrates. I tried reading some of Terry Pratchetts books and almost gave up. Listened to them and was hooked. Jim Dale and Stephen Fry both have audio versions of Harry Potter that are excellent. I am not saying that AI could not voice these - But I doubt it.
#14
I am a writer and video producer. I already know people in my profession who have lost jobs. I think, in particular, writing and designing will be going away. “Just use ChatGPT” I hear regularly. The benefit people like isn’t that it’s good. It’s that it’s cheap and done. Glad I’m on the tail end of a long career. Hanging on the last few years…if I can.
Kira Okah 10 months ago
Why on earth would I want to read something that no one wanted to write?
sbj 10 months ago
I've got the feeling that in the end it will do a full circle and the human touch will be back
April Pickett 10 months ago (edited)
You can see all that AI work in newspaper articles, magazines, and any written work now. You can see it. Maybe it's just my generation (Boomer) but we can spot it accurately. Newspapers are horrible with it. It's painful to read because you know it's not a human writing it. It's a shame that younger generations won't see the difference.
A_UserHere 10 months ago
The problem is is that it takes a few people to run a soulless AI that does a bad job, as opposed to multiple people who all do a good job. Its tons of people losing their jobs with no way to get another
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Bridal and formal wear stores/stylists. We’re already seeing stores close now at rapid rates. People are buying their wedding dresses and prom/homecoming dresses from SHEIN, Amazon and other cheaper online retailers like Azazie.
Brides still try and book appointments and tell us, oh I have a dress, I just didn’t get the “Say Yes to the Dress” experience, so I want to come in and try stuff on. We can’t compete with a $50 dress, and brides are caring less and less about quality, because “I’m only wearing it for a few hours.” Some bridal shop owners think they can ban together and write their congressional leaders and senators and stop people from buying online, and I said you really can’t. There’s really no way to take back the industry.
We are in the age of fast fashion, and cheap prices. Gone are the days of spending $1500 on a wedding dress and shopping with your mom and waiting 6-9 months for it to come in. It’s not about educating them, and teaching them about quality. It’s a different generation and we either get with the times or we get out.
TCW Sam Vimes 10 months ago
Well, forking out hundreds or thousands of €/$ for a dress you only wear once is insane, good riddance to that useless waste
Donna Peluda 10 months ago
I had to pay 100 euros for a suit for a 3 day trade show. I'm still pissed off
Load More Replies... Earonn - 10 months ago
Bridal dresses were the first "fast fashion": buy an expensive dress, wear it once. Yes, a few kept it "for my daughter" or had it changed to a formal dress, but for the vast majority it was a one-time-use purchase. I see a future for bridal dress shops renting dresses, the same way you can rent kilts here in Scotland for special occasions.
cerinamroth 10 months ago
My husband rented his kilt for our wedding day. He doesn't usually wear one (from a part of Scotland where kilt-wearing isn't traditional, and has Filipino roots!) but he wanted to and looked great in it. I kind of wish he had bought it ;-)
Load More Replies... Sarah Belt 10 months ago
$1500 on a wedding dress doesn't buy you quality, it buys you a $100 fast fashion dress with a wedding markup.
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I bought my beautiful dress online in my usual size and had it tailored to fit me like a glove by a wonderful woman down the road. So much cheaper and it was better quality than most of the dresses I tried on. I also hate, hate, hate shopping with a vengeance so a "wedding dress shopping date" thing was totally out of my comfort zone. I did one and we cut the day short and went to a nice café instead. I hated all the fake bowing and scraping and poking and prodding and standing on a damn pedestal. I'm getting married; I didn't win a Nobel prize!
David Morgan 10 months ago
No, they do all that sucking up because they very much want you to stay and spend large sums instead of getting huffy and leaving because your bum isn't being kissed. I agree with you, I'd much rather everyone be honest - polite yes, fawning no. I'm there to spend money because I need a product, not because I need false validation from strangers.
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 10 months ago
So change the business model. Rent out the space for 2 hours for $500 and provide the experience. Appetizers and champagne, a dresser, maybe a photographer. Couches for the bridal party/moms. A few veils/shoes/accessories. Charge for your time. Play music. Make it a fun party .
Michael Largey 10 months ago
My wife wore her mother's beautiful wedding dress from 1944. We have it in storage to pass along to another family member.
#16
Customer service + call centers are gonna see a lot of trouble with Agentic AI on the horizon. Not good because that industry employs millions of people across the world.
Kira Okah 10 months ago
LLM-run therapy and suicide hotlines have led to self harm, hospital admissions, and suicides. Aw well as harvesting vulnerable people's personal data to sell to Meta.
FlamingoPanda 10 months ago
There was an old but rather sad joke ages back when microsoft still had clippy to assist you with some things. Clippy asked a fictional user: I see you are writing a suicide note, would you like some help with that? Guess we did not learn from that.
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StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago (edited)
I haven't found any AI customer services that didn't make me frustrated and angry. They give approx half a dozen (or less) specific 'choices', (either via phone or chat) and if they don't match what you need to discuss, you can't go any further. More and more, the businesses remove the 'Speak to' a human being, option. If it's in the service sector, I often switch to other suppliers who still employ at least a % of real customer service people. Many of their websites (even Energy Companies) are also removing contact numbers/emails, too, and only have available the AI chat. I once had to publicly contact my energy Co & complain, re: the difficulty contacting them normally, via Twitter - they rapidly replied & it was sorted out in Twitter's DMs! #Insane
Earonn - 10 months ago
Or, we will see companies returning to real people in AI because using AI drives customers away.
Miki 10 months ago (edited)
Yea. Drives away, but amount of money they save on buildings full of people may still be more. (don't get me wrong. I am a big hater of current "ai")
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Penguin Panda Pop 10 months ago
I worked in call centres for nearly 20 years. This job needs to die. It's incredibly difficult to do and maintain any kind of mental health. BEEP. Some complaint about something which you try your best to resolve. BEEP. Next complaint. 8 hours a day of negativity, tethered to a phone. I'm convinced it's obliterated my short term memory, because I trained myself to forget the last call and focus on the current one. It's also ruined my short-term memory.
Tammilee Truitt 10 months ago
Might as well. When I do, eventually reach a human I cannot understand them. I feel rude having to ask them to continually repeat themselves. It's awkward and not helpful. Just give me a machine and let the call centers die already.
Mrs.C 10 months ago
I can see how this would prevent a lot of abuse lobbed at customer service reps. Most people aren't in a great place by the time they get ahold of someone so it's already a testy situation. Add in the fact that people don't care about others anymore and it's a recipe for abuse.
#17
Estimators. Im in construction. We have apps now that you can upload several pictures of the exterior of your home and it will calculate with acceptable accuracy the materials needed.It also will measure your roof without touching a ladder, measure trim, soffits and siding.It sends you a report with a full list of materials lengths of materials and % of waste. Also does 3d pics of what the hime will look like.Another app takes that info and calculates what the job will cost based on the region and aprox labor cost. This process would take days in the 90s.Complete game changer.
Andrew Keir 10 months ago
I remember being taught to do third-angle projections. They died, too.
#18
Really hoping to see real estate agents disappear in the near future.
Half_Man1:
I heard an interesting thing that they might!
Commission rates are too high and the market is over saturated with agents. Eventually an online platform is gonna develop to cut them out. Just like how people basically never use travel agents now.
Real estate agents might exist for large or complex sales but their rates aren’t reflecting the competition existing in their sector.
Susan 10 months ago
In reply to the "people basically never use travel agents now" They seriously should, for long distance trips at least. It doesn't cost you anything to use one, they usually find you better prices and can actually talk to you about what experience you want while traveling and help choose the correct accommodations for you based on preferences. Online most people don't use critical thinking enough so they just go "oooh pretty pictures, low price, I'll take it"
Seadog 10 months ago
I agree. I was going to visit Chernobyl, well, Pripyat to be precise. Airfare was only $236. Then the air travel restrictions in 2020 hit and ruined that trip. I talked to a former Ukrainian a few months ago and he told me it was good I didn't go. He said since 2014, Americans aren't well received in Ukraine. A travel agent would know this...or at least they should.
Load More Replies... Sarah Belt 10 months ago
Take the time to find a good one who will listen to your concerns and give you good advice to help you avoid money pits. Our (second agent we tried) helped us with major issues and convinced us to take a second look at a listing that we eventually fell in love with. Everything was a learning opportunity, even when we toured listings that we immediately knew wouldn't work. It helps that she was in the same industry as us (home farm). When we sold years later, we went back to her and she did amazing.
Max Robitzsch 10 months ago (edited)
Unless when selling you want to actually handle walking people through your home - if so, okay, on you mate, all good - then you will still need physical agents for a good while, I think.
Amy S 10 months ago
We used an estate agent but still ended up doing all the viewings ourself because the agent only operated 9-5 Monday to Friday!
Load More Replies... Kristin 10 months ago
Estate and car dealers are vultures!!! I was a car sales person some years ago and I really hated to be that one where the minute a customer touches the lot, right away 8 salesman are flies on s**t. I always sold alot of cars cause customers liked that I didn't suffocate them. I can't stand them so I always go look at vehicles on a Sunday when they are off and then I'll go back the next day and specifically tell them what I'm interested in.
Sue 10 months ago
B-b-b-b-ut GREED IS GOOD! THEY TOLD US THAT IN A MOVIE! That movie really did change a generation, for the worse.
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Royal Stray 10 months ago
Idk about this one. Real estate agents can do a good job in showing you various properties that can fit your needs without you needing to research 500 different places and things about them, and contact the owners yourself. But there are obviously also sh*t ones who try to sell you junk for as much as possible
Nimitz 10 months ago (edited)
As the industry changes there is 0% chance that realtors will be allowed to continue to exist. It is possible for someone to make thousands of dollars for one day's work. That can't exist. Apps will take over, and hourly paid employees will be assigned for an inspection/walkthrough with the buyers while the app does the rest of the valuation/transaction. The facilitating company will still take the same percentage, they just won't allow it to to go to one well paid middle-class employee, it will go to management and investors who perform no labor
Seadog 10 months ago
Just wondering how this would work with certain properties. One we bought, the homes are considered historical and we were warned by the agent that all exterior work must be approved by the ARB. and were also warned that an adjacent home was unofficially condemned and that we should talk to the building inspector before making an offer. I guess it all gets down to someone entering details for AI to convey?
Tom Hutcherson 10 months ago
Huh-uh. If I'm laying out that kind of money, I'm looking the place over in person.
The Goo King 10 months ago
This is already happening in the UK. Online agents are pushing down commissions, with 1% becoming common and online agents charging even smaller fixed fees.
#19
Copywriting.
moal09:
I work in the industry, and a ton of people are being cut for AI even though it sounds like s**t half the time, but it's just good enough that a lot of companies don't care.
Even a lot of the remaining jobs want you to use AI in tandem, so you can pump out more volume faster.
iseefractals 10 months ago
We use AI for generating product descriptions and social media marketing posts. BUT it's only a jumping off point, we proof, edit and add things as needed. It's great for cranking out variations of a theme in short order, but the results aren't good enough to just copy/paste/publish as they come out. And quality and relevance fall off quickly for anything longer than a few hundred words. It's very much a tool, not a replacement.
April Pickett 10 months ago
I have suspicions that is exactly what is happening. The companies do not care. It's the money, only the money they're doing this for. I know that is simplistic, but I think it's true.
#20
I would have to say traditional local in person bank tellers and walk in banks. I'm already seeing these new type of banks showing up. They look like gas stations without the stores and the gas pumps are video ATMs. To do your banking, you drive up to the ATM, request what service you want and if that service requires a teller, you'll be connected to a call center teller (quite possibly an overseas one or AI). If you need to cash a check or deposit money , you just enter them into the ATM. The downside to these is the massive loss of local teller job. You'll no longer have someone from your community to help you with your banking needs.
Nina 10 months ago
In the Netherlands you hardly have need for a person to help you with anything for banking. Depositing, withdrawing and getting coins for change can all be done with machines. It's been like that for quite a few years now. If you go to an office it's for opening an account or financial advise.
quentariel 10 months ago
Same in Finland. You can do almost everything with bank apps from paying or transferring to receiving money all the way to investing and most insurances. You can deposit or withdraw in ATM:s and also in many supermarkets. So I think those walk in bank tellers will slowly dissappear, but not the booked appointments for more complex matters. I've been physically in bank only once during last ten years and that was for my apartment's rent security deposit (yes, we do those through banks).
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Princess Possum 10 months ago
This is why I'm with a credit union and not a big bank. Still has the in-person contact.
iseefractals 10 months ago
The first ATMs launched in 1967, popularity grew throughout the 70's, but they didn't become a standard until the 1980....and every step of the way, people voiced the same predictions that are being repeated now. But....how often does the average person actually need to interact with a bank teller? You can cash checks using the camera on your phone, and most everything else is done online already AND more and more countries are pushing to go cashless. There's little chance that ALL banks are going to be replaced by kiosks and AI, but there's also not much benefit in keeping low traffic branches open just because.
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I can't cash checks using the camera on my phone. I have a landline. I prefer interacting with a real person some times.
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Little Bit 10 months ago
It's like that in most of the UK now. It is a nightmare when you have a problem and need to discuss it with a real person. The last time it happened to me I got put through to a call centre. The line was so bad that I could barely hear what the handler was saying and she couldn't make out what I was saying. I got passed around to three different people and it took nearly an hour to sort it out.
Roland Nijveld 10 months ago
You'll be alright. America is decades behind on banking and it having mostly by ATM's isn't a bad thing in general. But I suspect in America that will come with a fee like some European countries already have.
#21
Newspaper print employees.
entitledfanman:
I simply do not understand how so many local papers are still in print. I don't know a single person that still subscribes to a newspaper delivery.
sbj 10 months ago
I love to read a 'real' newspaper and the same goes with books, nothing can beat turning an actual page for me
Rick Murray 10 months ago
I'd love to do likewise, but the price went up far too much (it was nearly double what it was when I first started around 2010) so I stopped my subscription. Plus, the money I've saved, I can get a couple of books (real ink splots on dead tree books) every month and still come out ahead.
Load More Replies... quentariel 10 months ago
Weird, here in Finland most people subscribe for morning newspaper. With younger gens it's getting a bit rarer, but I don't know anyone over forty who doesn't get a newspaper.
Brian Droste 10 months ago
I think a lot small town papers are being bought up by bigger newspapers. The local newspaper owners I believed wanted to retire. Put up the newspaper for sale and bigger conglomerate bought it. This happened a few years ago.
Tammilee Truitt 10 months ago
So sad for me having read the morning paper daily since I was a youngster. Oh, and that Sunday edition. To sit at Dan's Lakewood Cafe swilling coffee reading the Sunday.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Our city's newpaper is printed in another state and mailed to us.
Princess Possum 10 months ago
The decline of local newspapers has a detrimental effect on historical research. So much was documented in them that is now lost.
JB 10 months ago (edited)
If it stops them throwing rolled up papers full of coupons at my front door, that would make me happy. I should be able to opt out but never see the person who is making a mess at my front door. Don’t even shop at the places they have coupons for and the places I do shop have digital coupons I put on my phone. I tried putting a notice on the garage door “NO PAPERS, THANKS!” They ignored it. It’s a horrible waste of paper (trees!) but when I complained to the post office about the unwanted deliveries they said “Sorry, not us. And, no, we don’t know what company is delivering the papers”. I struggle to imagine that enough people make use of enough coupons to justify the cost of printing. Seems such an old fashioned thing to cling onto.
ManuelQue 10 months ago
I delivered for a local paper here. I often had about 100 papers. We prepped them by rolling them around the flyers and using a strong elastic. We knew that a number of people didn't want flyers but they could always recycle them. Plus, the newspaper was free so ads were our only revenue. This is why Google and Meta were asked to give a percentage of their news service to help the non-digital news sources survive. Google concluded such a deal a short time ago. Meta won't let Canadians post any news link and is giving none of its considerable profit away.
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I strongly believe radiology will be HEAVILY downsized in the next 5-10 years with the improvements in AI. So in my opinion, any premeds should keep this in mind when thinking about specialties.
TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago
I think there still will be a demand of medical personal for that with AI being an assisting tool rather than a full replacement
Royal Stray 10 months ago
Agreed. We've seen AI do huge improvements in medicine and it should obviously be there if it's making people's lives better. But at the same time it's not 100% trustworthy on it's own and a human specialist should still oversee it and double check everything. Then again the same could be said with people, there (in a perfect world) would always be someone doublechecking the work
Load More Replies... Orion Red 10 months ago
there will be a push, then a pull back. that big success with AI predicting cancer from X-rays?turns out it was using the type of equipment the image was taken on as the biggest predictor. The cheap older/cheaper machines are used in poorer neighborhoods, and that is where people actually die of cancer.
Victoria 10 months ago
Legal issues will make sure a real person trained in that field will be verifying information before signing off. AI will assist, for sure. But nobody is trusting only a algo, as even a single false positive or false negative case can come back to bite you.
Vylnce NA 10 months ago
Bingo. It's a liability issue. Until a company starts insuring their ai with malpractice insurance (which no tech company is doing) AI with only ever be assisting. No matter how good it gets.
Load More Replies... David 10 months ago
They have shown the newest AI on average is better at catching things, but what they do today is have a human review it after. So rather than needing say 5 in the lab, you can get by with 2 using AI. And it has been shown to be much better and cheaper, and this is a positive. If we can get better results, then its good
Royal Stray 10 months ago
This, also hospitals in most countries are currently understaffed, so if that can help ease it and see more patients then there's no issues
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 10 months ago
Radiology is already being outsourced to less expensive countries via tele-med technology. Most likely someone in India is reviewing films that you had taken in the US.
Jnausicaa 10 months ago
And is that someone a trained radiologist or just a customer service rep in his second job?
Load More Replies... Mary Kelly 10 months ago
this is a welcome change...AI already is better at accurate and more precise at detecting certain cancers than humans, both in radiology and pathology...computers don't get tired, bring biases in, vary attentiveness from day-to-day...
ManuelQue 10 months ago
Read Orion Red's post above to see a part of the reason AI is so good at predicting cancer.
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I feel like accounting software is getting so good that accounting clerks might be done in. Especially with efforts to make a lot of lower income processes more streamlined and automated there won't be a lot of point for this job anymore.
TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago
I'm honestly surprised that accounting is still done mostly by employees to be honest as it's very easy to automate after most transactions became digital. Hell, all I did was typing in numbers into fields while the software did all the rest when I worked in accounting
Nimitz 10 months ago
Not just the software, entire countries are automating tax submission. In Canada we're on the verge of the government just filing your taxes for you. They already have all your tax slips, you just have to fill out a form or two if you have extra deductions etc. It will end up eliminating 2/3rds of accounting jobs.
#24
Congress.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Already bypassed. When did the Sentate confirm Elon Musk as anything?
Tom Hutcherson 10 months ago
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain
#25
In the USA, Locomotive Engineers on major freight railroads. Trains basically drive themselves now, all the Engineer really does is hit a dead-man switch, blow the horn, and ring the bell. A computer runs the train and even tells the Engineer when to apply the air brakes, the big carriers are pushing for One-Man Crews, and General Electric and the railroad electronics companies are pushing for programs that can run the train from a dead start to a dead stop. Locomotive Engineers aren’t even technically called “Engineers” anymore, they’re “Locomotive Operators.” Especially with the recent political regime and new head of the FRA, this reality is coming ever faster.
David 10 months ago
They arent called engineers anymore, for decades. Back in the 1800s you needed an actual engineer, but that hasn't been true for half a century. They are operators, the Engineers dont actually ride the train, they work at the depots and shops.
Upstaged75 10 months ago
As a kid my mom told me my grandfather was an Engineer. I was very disappointed to find out he didn't drive a train. :) He worked in a box factory....
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Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
The mining industry in Western Australia already has driverless trains on private company rail. And they have driverless trucks in the pits. All controlled from Perth, over a 1000km away.
#26
Paralegals. It’s scary but the legal world is embracing AI. Everyone heard about those lawyers who used ChatGPT and it cited case law that didn’t exist, but no one’s talking about how LexisNexis developed their own AI that won’t do that.
If an AI can summarize case law, write a brief, generate court documents- what does the paralegal do?
The only saving grace is that there are plenty of old lawyers out there who don’t even know how to e-file documents, so that may delay it a bit.
Eric G 10 months ago (edited)
Former attorney here. Sorry, but paralegals actually don't do that work. Associates (young attorneys) do. It's literally what law school trains you for. Paralegals help manage cases, discovery, calendars and filing for partners and associates. They might prepare discovery motions (like motions to compel) because all you're changing is the caption, names and dates, but not substantive motions. I can tell you with 100% confidence attorneys will never get rid of their paralegals. At least, at a defense firm. They are the backbone of law firms. Now, could I see those personal injury firms that have obnoxious ads doing that? Yeah. They are about greed.
Brianna Leahy Johnson 10 months ago
I'm a paralegal and I appreciate this comment and outlook!
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iseefractals 10 months ago
Yeah, bad for paralegals, but great for the masses who can't afford a lawyer. I would imagine it's also a godsend for the perpetually overloaded public defenders.
Kit Black 10 months ago
If you think that lawyers will charge less because they're using AI, think again.
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Taking orders at fast food places. Not much of a profession but won't be a job long.
Carl Roberts 10 months ago
It already isn't, where I live. Every fast food place (Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, ect) now has a single cash register, with a sign that says "All orders must be placed using self-service kiosk. Cash paying customers must bring their receipt to the counter to pay.......and then stand there for 20 minutes waiting for someone to acknowledge your existence". Ok, I made up that last part about standing there for 20 minutes, but that's exactly what happens.
Seadog 10 months ago
The thing is, FF workers that demanded $15/hr are now shocked that they're being replaced with automation. It's just simple economics. At $15/hr, it's cheaper to automate. I havn't experienced one of these places yet but I'm betting they have fewer incorrect orders as well. Many restaurants also found during the pandemic that they actually make just as much or more money without the dining room due to fewer employees needed and lower overhead because of all the associated machinery and cleaning not needed. Personally, I like to go in and sit to eat.
Load More Replies... Sadie Enward 10 months ago
In Maryland, we have a franchise called Royal Farms that opted to have only self-checkout counters. They're slowly going out of business from the shoplifting alone
#28
What about drive thrus? Some places like Taco Bell are already doing it with the order taking. Not sure if they could do the actual food though.
xkulp8:
Fast food seems to be speedrunning getting rid of cashiers and trying to move everyone to apps or kiosks. Secondarily they seem to be getting rid of dine-in service in favor of drive-thru or pickup. McD's is phasing out self-serve beverages for example. Starbucks is opening new stores without seating areas. Much lower costs that way.
David 10 months ago
dont worry, the big companies are working with automation for making food too. They already have a machine that makes fries, salts them, and does it perfect and better than human workers. KFC is testing a Chicken machine for the frying as well. Burger King has 3 locations testing a machine that not only cooks the burgers, but assembles it, etc. Give a few years and all you will have is 2 people working a whole large fast food place, and they would be just loading the machines and pressing buttons. And cleaning up as well
iseefractals 10 months ago
During the pandemic fast food places started toying with "Ghost Kitchens" to go along with the rise in door dash/uber eats and the like. Instead of having 3/4/5/10 brick and mortar fast food places, they just operated all of them out of a single kitchen, with 1/10 the staff. And no one knew the difference. Food quality is exactly the same, service times exactly the same. Just a lot less wasted real estate, more efficient use of energy and less emission output. There's also been a couple instances of fully automated kitchens, robots reheat the par-cooked food, package it and leave it for pick up. Either way, the days of sit-down fast food places are numbered.
Anony Mouse 10 months ago
Oh those ghost kitchens were awful. They almost fooled me once or twice. Ooh - a new wing place in town! Oh no, it’s just Applebees garbage at twice the price. Pasquale’s Pizza? It was Chuck-E Cheese.
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TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago
With enough creativity the food preparation could probably be automated too - I think I saw a concept restaurant that runs fully automatic aside from receipe creation in the news a few months ago
Kit Black 10 months ago
Mcdonald's has been working on this behind the scenes for almost a decade - it's almost here.
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Pa Pa Panda 10 months ago
Automating due to increased wage costs. Back when I worked in fast food in the 70s it was mostly HS age kids working minimum wage.
#29
I do digital marketing for small local businesses.
We do their social media, websites, google ads, newsletters, blogs, etc. with the way AI is advancing, I really worry that people won’t need someone to market for them anymore.
Like that’s still way down the line, but I’m in my 20s. What is this industry going to look like when I’m 50?
It’s already really hard to find a job.
#30
Music composition for film, movie trailers, commercials etc. It can all be automated now already. AI is being trained to replicate and sequence popular music just enough to avoid any copyright issues.
#31
With the advent of A.I., probably data entry.
#32
US election workers.
No need for them if the results are predetermined.
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 10 months ago
The (current) title on BP is “'That Industry Employs Millions Of People': 56 Professions That Might Be Useless Soon", but they do change them a lot. Has nothing to do with AI, except for the fact that a ton of jobs are being replaced by AI.
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Literally all of the WFH roles, that exist entirely within Microsoft Teams. If there is no physical element to your job, they are actively developing AI to replace you.
Whatever human element you think you bring to the table…..they’re willing to sacrifice it, to save the money.
Penguin Panda Pop 10 months ago
Or quietly retire to bed and hunker down for the apocolypse.
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#34
Radio DJs
Going to be replaced by one person managing multiple radio stations via AI DJs.
#35
Technical Author jobs are currently disappearing thanks to AI.
A big pharma company near me has laid off most of the TA dept. The ones that re left just proof read what AI writes for them. AI is very good at reading though large documents to summarize them. It still can't write the original spec documents though like a URS, Functional Spec or Design Spec. That has to be done by an analyst, engineer or scientist.
#36
Recording engineers. Specifically mixing and mastering engineers. In 10 years there will be AI tools to do this stuff automatically. There's already plugins for specific elements to be done by AI.
I used to work as an engineer and have been talking to grammy winning mix engineers. They're already being hit up by companies to develop models designed to emulate their mixing style.
Tracking engineers might be a little more safe because recording an actual band needs to be done physically, but I'd say 95% of engineers that do tracking also pay rent by doing mixing.
But there's almost certainly going to be tools developed to make tracking done in a living room sound like it was done in a famous studio acoustically, so even tracking engineers who own their own studios and think they have an advantage because they have a good sounding recording space are not for sure safe.
Ruth 10 months ago
It’s already sad to see what has happened with singers and musicians. Years ago, the talent required to succeed was far greater than today. Singers actually had to sing on pitch. In more recent years, sound can be manipulated in so many ways that a talented recording engineer could even make me sound good! /s
#37
I work as a Master Control Operator, basically one of the people that monitors and edits the playlists that send tv programming to air. We monitor for graphics, closed captioning, audio, video, and also serve as emergency recovery if the video or audio goes haywire. We also roll the commercial breaks for any live programming like the news or sporting events.
We recently started using a new on air system that has some strange kinks in it when it comes to live programming and doesn’t seem to be designed for rapid in the moment adjustments. When we asked the engineers about it, they said they designed the program with “stations that do not have a live operator” in mind. The program also has auto recovery options to save air if it senses an upcoming item has no CC, audio, or too much black video. If a spot fails for any reason the system sees how long the upcoming outage would be and autofills it with preapproved promos and graphics.
It’s already pretty standard in the industry that many tv stations are basically shadow stations that follow a main broadcast station and when the main rolls a commercial break, the secondary takes that trigger and rolls its own break along with it.
So all that combined, I have a strong feeling the purpose of this new system is to bug test and design an on air program that can basically run and recover itself while following a mother station. You could then have a dozen or more stations all following the lead of one main station which could eliminate like 90% of operators, the only ones remaining being those who monitor those dozen stations at once and do quick fixes for any stations that miss a trigger or have a random glitch. I don’t think live tv could realistically be fully automated in a decade but the amount of hands needed to do it will get smaller by the day.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
Live TV could totally be realistically fully automated and it will be faster than 10 years.
#38
Computer programmers - AI being trained now by clueless programmers who extol the virtues of AI
Manual factory laborers - AI combined with advanced robotics will automate 90+%
Most call center workers - AI will replace them as it is already being trained by consuming mass recordings of customer interactions.
I worked in IT for close to 50 years at executive positions and can tell you this is happening and is the goal.
Devastation of film making industry at all job levels due to AI (and all those supporting jobs as AI will replace actors, directors, FX, stunt, animators, set and wardrobe professionals, and on and on).
Susan 10 months ago
How will AI replace actors? Or stunts men/women or wardrobe for that matter?
Ruth 10 months ago
With deep fakes getting so realistic, it’s only a matter of time.
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“Manufacturing Workers”, nowadays, the development of automatic machinery is increasing, and as time goes by, workers are reduced due to inventions to speed up production.
iseefractals 10 months ago
This isn't an area that's being replaced so much as workers are being shifted. Instead of manufacturing the thing, they're manufacturing, programming and maintaining the machine that makes the thing. I have a buddy that does just that. He started off as a machine operator a few years ago, making high precision parts...and then shifted into programming the CNC's, plasma cutters, water jet cutters, laser welders....and once he had a handle on that, he shifted to actually building out those machines for clients, and than following them all over the world to install (and maintain) and teach clients how to operate them. People have been sounding this alarm with literally, every technological advance.
#40
Foreign language dubbing voice actors 😭.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
I can't wait until this happens. I would love to hear the original actors voices in an English accent tell their story instead of some weird VoiceOver.
Nimitz 10 months ago
You have no idea. I work in the video game industry. The last AAA game I worked on came fully voiced in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish (South American and European), and Brazilian Portuguese. Literally hundreds of actors in various countries were needed. If they can replace them with AI, they will in a single solitary second.
#41
Feel like stock brokers. With all the apps nowadays everybody is a stockbroker. Albeit prolly not the best.
Penguin Panda Pop 10 months ago
I read something once that said most stockbrokers were no better than a random coin flip at picking stock. Maybe the study has since been debunked, I don't care enough about the stock market to research thoroughly.
Woundwort42 10 months ago
90% of manged funds fail to out perform the stock market as a whole, and those that do very rarely do so consistently. That's why low cost index trackers are so popular these days
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Video game QA. Honestly it seems like it doesn’t even matter what goes out anymore.
TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago (edited)
What do you mean, the customers are clearly the QA department now - Prebuy the game for 80 bucks for the exclusive right to become a bug tester for the company and make the 100GB release day patch possible...
Kira Okah 10 months ago
So that is what those play the game early preorder bonuses are for - paying the company to bug test!
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Jenn Smith 10 months ago
It's so disappointing to spend good money on a new game for my son. And none of it goes as advertised. My gaming days are over, but I'm still buying games. And most feel like a rip-off.
Kira Okah 10 months ago
What QA? The most recently released games that I have seen are just giant buggy piles of mess. Get to a point and some of them are unplayable from all of the glitches. That Star Wars game that came out recently, played it, that was so broken I couldn't do half the stuff that I was meant to be able to do. Spent more time than even in SWTOR falling out of bounds, and SWTOR is known for that.
Nimitz 10 months ago
This is literally my job. Was my job. I got laid off at the end of January, and every studio in town has laid off about 1/3 of their staffs in the last year. It's actually a very tedious job that in some cases requires a ton of knowledge and skill. But companies are VERY eager to replace us with AI and automation. My specific company had quarterly meetings where management and HR laid out our release schedule and very specifically told us that we had job security and that all of our over-seas testers would be laid off before anyone local. They lied.
#43
Lenders and the administrative employees who support them. I underwrite complex commercial loans. AI has already figured out simple auto-decisioning for small loans like credit cards and HELOCs. The bigger loans involving multiple borrowers and entities still require human braining and nuance and interaction. That will disappear eventually. I'm maxing out every retirement account I can because I'll probably get booted sooner than I'd planned.
#44
Not sure if wiped out but Data Analytics is drastically changing. Lots of back end connections and GUI are being automated so analytics can be had without talking to a team. Often times the siri generated graph is not correct and uses false logic but gets the exec’s an answer ASAP without any follow ups.
#45
Office Administration or receptionist, and maybe travel agents.
#46
Switchboard operators are f****d.
#47
Community (aka retail) pharmacies.
They essentially still exist because of the current state and local laws. In a few years only massive pharmacy chains will exist and they will continue to do whatever they can to cut costs. The biggest of which is personnel. There are other factors at play, but there is currently low value added by the typical pharmacist (pharmacy) at a individual patient level and a large financial pressure to shift to an Amazon-type business model.
Lyone Fein 10 months ago
I totally disagree. My insurance provider pays the same for a prescription whether I get it locally or from a mail order service. So I get mine locally. Because of the HIGH value elements of: immediate access to my medication, human interaction, being able to ask questions about my medications, being able to make other purchases at the same time.
Lila Allen 10 months ago
This fails to take into account anyone with a prescription that is for a controlled substance like Ritalin. Federal law prevents these from being mailed and prevents these from being on subscription services.
David 10 months ago
I live in NYC, and while the big chain pharmacies are shutting down locations, small indy ones are popping up all over the place. Most of them do home delivery for medications as well. But they also provide notary services, and other things, and they are on the rise where I am
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I get maintenance meds mail-order, but still need that local pharmacy for stuff like short-term antibiotics.
Anony Mouse 10 months ago
My local Walgreens is so short staffed now they have to close for lunch, and often close mid-afternoon with notice. If you make appointments they are canceled with no notice (like you show up and they are closed). They are often out of stock of common medications, or don’t have enough staff to unpack shipments and stock the shelves. It’s like they are actively trying to go out of business.
Nimitz 10 months ago
A lot of pharmacies already have automation. They're going to reduce the number of staff required. The prescription will be fed into the machine, it will dispense and label the meds, and the cashier hands it to the customer. If you have questions, you can call the telehelp line. Pharmacists are already being phased out to the legally required minimum
#49
Grocery store clerk.
Maria Maria 10 months ago
Correct. Stores are losing a fortune from theft in self checkout.
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Broadcast production in local news, if not entirely most local news teams with how the industry is moving towards utilizing AI and centralization. Most of these jobs have already been eliminated in the past 10-15 years and the rest are probably less than 5 years away from being gone.
#51
Medical Coding. The people who listen to your doctor's notes and submit the insurance work will very soon be replaced by AI.
#52
I feel like people with Library Sciences degrees. They’re actually in high-demand currently as they’re helping train LLMs but they’re essentially working towards making themselves significantly less valuable to borderline obsolete.
Lyone Fein 10 months ago
Doubtful. These degrees have been called Information Science for several decades now. The more technology advances, the more public libraries will be a resource for accessing educational materials, web based information, news, and entertainment.
Lady Eowyn 10 months ago
I got my MLS when it was still library science. Not too long after that it was library and information science, now they've dropped the library part of it.
Load More Replies... BarfyCat 10 months ago
I disagree with this one. They are needed more than ever to help people navigate the maze of databases full of academic articles, etc. Back in the days of the card catalogue you could do your research yourself. Now the complexity of finding sources for a paper has gone way up.
#53
5 years? not that much for the average person.
10 years - robots are going to become more ubiquitous. They are already beginning to replace security guards and delivery people, there will be more tele-medicine, online education, hospitality and sales via AI and robots. Robochefs are becoming cheaper by the year so the fast food industry is going to undergo a significant change. If you watch the Presidential inauguration ceremony you will see all the billionaires in the industries that require government cooperation to bring in AI, robotics and automation.
People who work in the audio/visual arts or design should be worried, the pace of AI improvements in those fields means many will gradually see their work dry up. Background actors or 'extras' have been replaced by CGI for quite a long time now and fairly soon even leading roles will go the same way. Voice-over artists, continuity announcers and audiobook narrators have less than 5 years, news readers may last a bit longer.
Where a profession primarily involves data analysis they will be replaced sooner, or their work will change to a more supervisory role. Where their work involves manual dexterity and coordination, especially in human contact in highly regulated scenarios they will be harder to replace.
For example a 10 year medically trained Radiologist who spends most of the time analysing X-Rays, CT and MRI Scans will be replaced sooner than the radiographer who helps the patients into/onto the machine and takes the image. The biochemist who analyses blood test results will be replaced sooner than the phlebotomist who takes the blood sample. ECG machines are already (and have been for some time) better at analysing and diagnosing heart pathology than the majority of human doctors, but they haven't yet made an ECG machine that can actually take the ECG so the ECG technician is relatively safe. The designer of new technology products will be replaced sooner than the person who repairs and maintains those products, if you want to guarantee yourself a job for the next 50 years learn how to use a soldering iron.
Certain duties and roles of the police and military will be replaced, but as a scene of crime officer your job is more secure than that of the forensic examiner. Bedside nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and prostitutes will be some of the hardest professions for robotics and AI to replace, despite what the mainstream media and online media would have you believe.
The worldwide shipping industry knows that the majority of human crew time is spent doing virtually nothing on long sea voyages or waiting outside ports. If they can take most of the crew off the ship outside of ports going out, an onto ships waiting to come into port and remote pilot a ship on the high seas between ports they will save a tonne of money, but that industry is highly regulated for safety.
Where work involves routine tasks in a controlled environment, such as Amazon pickers and packers, they will be replaced probably within 10 years. Farm labourers, fruit pickers etc are already being replaced but primarily in greenhouse type farms. There is significant innovation going on in the farming / food production industry and the main thing slowing the pace of change is the very high upfront investment cost. In the UK for example the government can afford to p**s off the farmers (unlike previously) because they know the small to medium farming concerns are going to be bought up by the industrial farming corporates who can afford the new technology within 20 years. The Trump mandated deportation of illegal farm workers is probably for the very same reasons.
Elon Musk invested in the insanely expensive industry of astronautics because it was needed for Starlink and the bandwidth requirement for networking is going to skyrocket in the next 10 years. Under sea network cable cutting benefits him, because ships can't damage satellite communications. Elon Musk is not a tech innovation genius, he is a very very good analyst, he started in banking.
The issues with things like personal flying vehicles and driverless cars is not the technology, it's the regulation of that technology, governments move slow and tend to be over-cautious. If a field or profession involves a lot of regulation they will be the hardest to replace.
Brian Droste 10 months ago
TL. Only read part of this and the part of this I did, some of things OP mention, other people already mentioned.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
You have not been paying attention if you believe that you won't see massive change in the next 3-5 years. Anthropic CEO Daria Amodei believes AGI to be 2-3 years out. 80% of the infoslave jobs will disappear (customer service, accounts payable, marketing, programming, etc). The only jobs left will be overseers/editors of the bots. When does Waymo take over transportation? When does Tesla's robots take over law enforcement and military? We have 3 entire generations trained to operate a robot in wartime conditions through video games. Human video game experts can become remote supersoldiers and drone operators.
#54
According to the BLS, it's a bunch of unsexy occupations like typists, data entry, telephone operators, meter readers etc that probably shouldn't exist anyway.
However, that's boring so I'm going to say digital design creatives. This is a perfect job for AI. AI can easily be trained to come up with a base journey and visual design. AI will then allow quick iteration of designs for A-B testing and improvement. There's a strong push to automate here as digital design is often slow and expensive today. These jobs are going away.
Susan 10 months ago (edited)
Except AI won't really come up with anything particularly new and eye catching so if you really want to make a brand stand out a good designer is crucial. The AI stuff will just be white noise. There's actually a good bit of psychology and marketing involved with graphic design, it's just just picking colors and patterns that you like.
#55
People who aren't good at stuff are going to be replaced by people who are using AI to do their jobs more efficiently.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
And those efficient users of AI will be replaced by AI itself shortly thereafter.
#56
Postal workers.
What do you think ?
WindySwede 10 months ago
What will happen to everyone that was replaced by AI? How to make a living wage?
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 10 months ago
Hopefully if EVERYTHING is replaced by AI, then none of us will actually NEED to work for a living. But unfortunately, we're currently caught halfway- too much AI for us to get jobs and make a living, and not enough AI to make a society where nobody has to work.
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StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
Bill Gates (mega Capitalist) has mentioned overpopulation (re: the poor, which is unsaid, but inferred) for years. This kind of talk, and AI gradually taking over a high % of human jobs, makes you wonder what kind of future we're heading for? The mass obsolescence of non-rich people? I don't underestimate any of those sociopaths.
Adam Benson 10 months ago
Language teachers may soon become obsolete. I'm an ESL teacher and the demand for our services is decreasing each year, as more people now use AI translation instead of taking the time and effort to learn a language.
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I'm a translator, and it worries me greatly that people will stop learning foreign languages (unless they come from multilingual homes). What a loss to our intercultural understanding! And just imagine if, one day, there's a widespread internet outage. It will be like the Tower of Babel again.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 months ago
In this article: basically every job that isn't construction.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
Tesla created robots. Once they are trained to perform construction tasks, those jobs will be going away as well.
Load More Replies... Seadog 10 months ago
One simple rule to all jobs. Ask yourself, can my job be done remotely? if it can, find a new job that can't. It's really just a matter of time before the employers figure this out and outsource your job overseas. People that WFH because of the pandemic failed to realize they were actually showing their company how little they actually need them. The only safe jobs are ones that require a physical presence and can't be automated.
Richard Smith 10 months ago
"Look at all the cool advantages of letting computers do everything!" Quote the opening lines of every epic science fiction disaster. Think only foolish people are afraid of AI? Think again, Stephen Hawking was terrified of it.
Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
A job that is on the way out is tractor driver. Most of the big broad acre machines have auto steer that is able to pretty much do it all and most of the time there isn't much to do. With sensors and cameras, you probably wouldn't need the tractor monkey.
PenguinEmp 10 months ago
In order for ai to take my job, it would require a client to know how to explain what they need. I'm safe
WindySwede 10 months ago
What will happen to everyone that was replaced by AI? How to make a living wage?
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 10 months ago
Hopefully if EVERYTHING is replaced by AI, then none of us will actually NEED to work for a living. But unfortunately, we're currently caught halfway- too much AI for us to get jobs and make a living, and not enough AI to make a society where nobody has to work.
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago
Bill Gates (mega Capitalist) has mentioned overpopulation (re: the poor, which is unsaid, but inferred) for years. This kind of talk, and AI gradually taking over a high % of human jobs, makes you wonder what kind of future we're heading for? The mass obsolescence of non-rich people? I don't underestimate any of those sociopaths.
Adam Benson 10 months ago
Language teachers may soon become obsolete. I'm an ESL teacher and the demand for our services is decreasing each year, as more people now use AI translation instead of taking the time and effort to learn a language.
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I'm a translator, and it worries me greatly that people will stop learning foreign languages (unless they come from multilingual homes). What a loss to our intercultural understanding! And just imagine if, one day, there's a widespread internet outage. It will be like the Tower of Babel again.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 months ago
In this article: basically every job that isn't construction.
Crystal Taggart 10 months ago
Tesla created robots. Once they are trained to perform construction tasks, those jobs will be going away as well.
Load More Replies... Seadog 10 months ago
One simple rule to all jobs. Ask yourself, can my job be done remotely? if it can, find a new job that can't. It's really just a matter of time before the employers figure this out and outsource your job overseas. People that WFH because of the pandemic failed to realize they were actually showing their company how little they actually need them. The only safe jobs are ones that require a physical presence and can't be automated.
Richard Smith 10 months ago
"Look at all the cool advantages of letting computers do everything!" Quote the opening lines of every epic science fiction disaster. Think only foolish people are afraid of AI? Think again, Stephen Hawking was terrified of it.
Helen Rohrlach 10 months ago
A job that is on the way out is tractor driver. Most of the big broad acre machines have auto steer that is able to pretty much do it all and most of the time there isn't much to do. With sensors and cameras, you probably wouldn't need the tractor monkey.
PenguinEmp 10 months ago
In order for ai to take my job, it would require a client to know how to explain what they need. I'm safe
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