[News] Dying Professions you should avoid

[Simster]

https://www.workandmoney.com/s/dyin..._source=twi&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=141190

Any you disagree with in there?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Undertakers!

 

[pasty]

I work in transactional print (financial statements, utility bills, payslips etc) and the volume of hard copy print we produce is definitely on the decline due to the so called paperless society. Fortunately for me though, I work on the programming side and our clients still need their documents producing if only in soft copy so their customers can view them online.

 

[father_and_son]

Lawyers..? in an increasingly litigous society..? they may all be ambulance chasers but they will still exist for a while yet!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Yeah, and nobody will ever want vinyl records again.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Bank counter staff.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I was going to say Architects!

Who the hell wants to do 6 or 7 years studying for essentially a role that has devolved into a trade. You have to be passionate about it now, consider the debt you'd come out of training with, and the fact that you'll be behind the earnings of most building trades let along other professionals for many years thereafter until you perhaps reach more senior roles, which not everyone does. And you have to take all the shit and liability that comes with it.

Architects doing it for the love and passion and desire to win the best jobs has cost the profession dearly in terms of revenue over the years. You only have to compare average salaries across Engineers, Surveyors and Architects to see the disparity.

 

[studio150]

Other jobs to go, bus drivers, train drivers, cabbies, delivery drivers......

 

[El Presidente]

Lawyers..? in an increasingly litigous society..? they may all be ambulance chasers but they will still exist for a while yet!

There's been some research recently that AI lawyers can read and understand standard legal documents, as well as spot errors, more accurately than humans (I appreciate it's questionable whether most lawyers are humans) and therefore low level work could certainly be replaced.

 

[WhingForPresident]

You'd think web developers had already died out judging by the design of that website.

 

[Frankie]

Taken me absolute ages to find a VCR repair engineer , the craftsmanship required for Auxin off and on , seems to have been lost in the mists of time .

 

[FindonFan]

Bookies.

 

[pork pie]

Other jobs to go, bus drivers, train drivers, cabbies, delivery drivers......

You forgot train guards

 

[Stato]

Yeah, and nobody will ever want vinyl records again.

Oh how I remember the glorious days when this was the paradigm. I had an afternoon off work one Friday in the early nineties and walked into a record shop to find that they were selling seven inch singles at bulk prices that equated to less about 6p each. I spent the whole afternoon knelt on the floor, rummaging through box after box and left with everything I could carry.

 

[beorhthelm]

i got as far as Broadcasters and think trend is emerging - no they are not dying, we do need all these people as technology has in no way replaced them, just made it possible for amateurs to do some of the work themselves.

literally laughed at "IT Support"... who will fix everyones Omsung in the technological future? we need more, better qualified IT support than ever.

there's a few near the end that are valid, photo processors, textile machine workers (due to overseas, not technology - welcome to the 20th Century America!)

 

[DFL JCL]

There's been some research recently that AI lawyers can read and understand standard legal documents, as well as spot errors, more accurately than humans (I appreciate it's questionable whether most lawyers are humans) and therefore low level work could certainly be replaced.

It is already happening, with the addition of other professional service firms entering into the market to do this work also.

 

[happypig]

When I changed roles in 1991 I was told that the technology I was working on would be gone by the middle of the 1990s. I am still working on it and teaching new people all about it.

Sometimes customers dont want to change. It is technically possible for an airliner to fly itself from Heathrow to Washington with no human intervention but would anyone go on it ?

 

[Gwylan]

literally laughed at "IT Support"... who will fix everyones Omsung in the technological future? we need more, better qualified IT support than ever.

They won't be fixed, people will just buy new ones. I had a problem with my daughter's Chromebook, it cost so much to fix that I ended up buying another. That will permeate into the office culture too.

The ongoing move to cloud will remove another layer of support. Yes, there's still a need for someone to support the cloud servers but far fewer of them. And the growing rise in automation will mean even less human intervention.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

MEP’s

 

[BBassic]

They won't be fixed, people will just buy new ones. I had a problem with my daughter's Chromebook, it cost so much to fix that I ended up buying another. That will permeate into the office culture too.

The ongoing move to cloud will remove another layer of support. Yes, there's still a need for someone to support the cloud servers but far fewer of them. And the growing rise in automation will mean even less human intervention.

There's also the fact that young people today grow up far more conversant in technology. It's no longer the case that, as it was when I was growing up, only few people have access to technology and enough exposure to it to become proficient at troubleshooting and the like.