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10 Jobs that won’t exisit in 10 years
Fast Company predicts the death of these jobs by 2016:
Cool-hunting, wall street-researchers I second this. Trend-spotting is a dying science.
Bloggers I’m not sure why FC mentioned this because as of 2006, blogging is not even an official job. We have a handful like Boing Boing , Huffintgon Post and Gawker that rake in enough money to support a livelihood. But out of the 27 million + blogs, not even 10% can claim to be bloggers by profession.
Advertising creatives FC thinks amateurs are far better at making ads and posting them online. I disagree. The job of advertising creatives is not limited to chugging out art-like advertisements. If anything, this job is only going to gain more potential and become super-important as audiences find more effective ways of avoiding any reception of advertisements. (Tivo, anyone?!) FC is grossly wrong here. This is akin to stipulating, journalists will lose their jobs because bloggers do a good job of reporting!
Auto mechanics Hmm. In USA, maybe cars will run on softwares by 2016, but auto-mechanics will only graduate to becoming soft-ware mechanics and when our cars fall apart, as they always do at some point, maybe instead of an oil-change, we’ll be charged for a hard-drive change.
Indian call-centers This was evident, wasn’t it?
US-High-tech jobs They’re already going.
What do you think? Which job profiles are bound to disappear in the near future? Banking? Air-Hostess’s?
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My vote definitely goes to retail personnel. I almost always pay for groceries at those automated scan-for-yourself machines now.
Nick - I also think non-fiction writers and non-fiction books won’t exist. People already go to blogs to seek information– why would anyone want to read toms of boring text to get a point? The only kinds of books that will sell are fiction, coz people will still want to escape for those few hours to unknown worlds…
Please India call centers go away…
Nick…gotta agree those retail people need to go too…
I think Fast Company is a little crazy as well w/ some of it’s thoughts…auto mechanics going? yea right.
–RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
Whatever Fast Company is smoking, it’s making them delusional… or they’re so busy smoking something that they haven’t paid attention to the world around them.
- Trendspotting is not dead… it never will be, because it’s not a science. There’s always going to be something newer and better, and companies are always going to be short-sighted and need help.
- Bloggers? As a profession, the numbers are growing. They may be small, but more and more people are calling it a profession. This isn’t going to suddenly stop.
- Indian Call Centers? Why would they be disappearing? As long as labor is cheap, it’s still a good business model. I can’t see that changing in just 10 years.
- Advertising Creatives? Come on. Sounds like someone doesn’t like advertising. Guess what FC, it pays your salary.
I have one to add: Magazines
John - Well, I think what fast company meant was trend-spotting as a paid profession. Yeah so as a trend-spotter I make a measly buck or two now and then, but I don’t see myself ever resorting to trendspotting as a full-time occupation anytime in the future. But you may be right, maybe an organized form of trend-spotting that will merge the new media extensively will emerge.
Bloggers - Yes it won’t suddenly stop but bloggers are also losing credibiltiy because there is just so much content being spewed out every minute. Unless you are one of the A-listers, (even they have “other” jobs) blogging may not really be able to support the kind of lifestyle these bloggers demand. But like any other profession, if someone’s really good at blogging- they’ll stick it out and stay around.
Indian Call Centers - Yes. Its a good business model but it has ruffled quite a few feathers. Including pissing people off that they have to speak to someone a continent away and often, someone who doesn’t understand their language well. Also, call centers in India are finding it difficult to ensure longetivity and long-term contracts from their workers. Racial abuse, the late-hours and no clear career goals are leading Indians to use call-centers job as a mere transitional phase. The companies are losing money by having to train new employees consistently.
Either a new methodology needs to be set in place or the call centers will move back to where they came from.
Ad Creatives- Yep. my sentiments exactly.
Magazines - I work in the magazine industry. A certain genre of magazines are doomed for sure : health, money, brands and business. People will prefer to have this news online. But fashion and beauty magazines will stay around for a while because in addition with content, they also offer the visual pleasure. Photo-spreads, ads and the glossy paper make the combination a killer.
Nevertheless, every magazine will need an online counterpart. The paper and the net will come to co-exist.