What are some jobs that you don't see lasting much longer? They could be jobs where the services are no longer popular or the workers may be replaced in some way by technology.

Some older examples would be like a typewriter repair person or very simple factory jobs that got replaced by robots.

Furniture repairs and restorations. I know the company I'm with is the exclusive vendor for 3 major insurance companies for furniture repairs and restorations. We cover the whole State of Florida, mostly because other 'shops' doing this kind of work are just garage refinishiners (sometimes being run out of an open bay storage unit) without licensing and such. Plus being how modern furniture is designed to be thrown away and replaced we're getting less work to do because it's just cheaper to buy it again from Rooms to Go.

This may not be common, but it is well known and fairly important. I honestly think that actors are going to be a thing of history within twenty years. Why? Because this is beautiful, and cheaper than live action-
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ToztqqDcaY

I cannot imagine Disney doing a better job of effects than that video.

Okay I think someone has had a little too much fun juice for one night.

If we're lucky, politicians.

This is why you're my favorite.

Charioteers.

Considering that half of them already are obsolete, my vote is for manufacturing jobs. I worked for a while assembling electric motors and I cannot conceive of a single part of any job on the assembly line that couldn't have been done by modern robotic technologies. I think the only reason that they even had humans doing the work is because the particular plant did small batches of a lot of types of motors, and would require the robotic setups to be changed too often to be efficient.

That's my dream, but I think reality will be retirement. Work 'till you die.

John Henry Eden 2016


I think cashiers myself

BlackBerry Customer Service Advisors

Customer service will eventually get replaced with machines, sadly.

You mean most of them are human? Huh. For some reason, it kind of has been replaced... by goats, dogs, pigs, cats, and every other creature. Some people vote for animals instead. One town is known for voting for animals as mayors. Apparently they say a non-human animal makes a great mayor. The replacement of politicians would mean we couldn't have any joke parties, though. Polish Beer Lovers Party comes to mind.

Pretty much anything which requires a human to do will be replaced. It's just a matter of time.

I wish I could find the "report" I read which shows a shocking loss of employment since the turn of the last century and how America went from "World recognized brand names" to "importers from China". The summation stated it well: "If America is to enter WWIII, we will lose, because we have no manufacturing to build planes, tanks, jeeps, and ships as we did in the previous war." (recalled from memory, not actual quote).

He's right. America's future is screwed, and it's because "capitalism" wasn't supposed to allow the three checks and balances of our government to be purchased.

As they say: everyone has their price. America just sell it off for cheap.

Jobs that are just doing the same stuff repeatedly will get replaced by robots and computers (and largely already have), but jobs that require creative thinking or reacting to unexpected circumstances will always require a human.

For disabled people, many jobs that payed the ones with more disfiguring problems actually have been replaced with TV. I know freak shows are not exactly something anyone would want to see now, but those actually paid the people who joined them quite well and many people in them could get a good amount of money by exploiting their oddities. I do wonder how things would have gone if someone who actually had experience being in one was involved in politics at the time when they eventually became taboo.

I know that job is one most cringe at the existence of, but many who were in them couldn't get any other job and were actually given a good home at them in some cases, too. The people in these freak shows even were so close to one another that they were almost like one big family. These places weren't as bad as their name sounded from what it seems. Certainly wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, but I doubt Ripley's Believe It or Not could be seen as any better.

Printer repair, it's just better to replace the dang thing vs repairing it at the moment.

Ah, humans have only had retirement for like 100 years or less (for the common man). Some people dont realize that life IS work, and we've been working till we die for as long as man has been around. Having days off and vacations and all that is just luxuries anyway. If you were living in the woods or something, you're working all the time just to feed yourself or whatever, so when i put it into perspective, it aint so bad.

Still, nobody should be naive enough to give the government money their whole life and expect them to give it back when you're old. IF i ever retire, it's going to be in money that i save myself (but more likely, physical assets like land and whatnot, as money can become worthless over time).

On topic, i think that 80% or more of the whole liberal arts wont last when it comes push to shove and cutting needless spending. For societies, infrastructure takes precedent over art, or 'feeling good' and whatever else most liberal arts pertain to, and eventually the gravy train is going to stop (look at greece) when countries run out of other countries' money. Then society is going to have to decide what is really important for society. I mean, art will always stay around in some form or another, but it will be one of the first things cut when you look at necessity and government funding.

I think that's badass. The guy basically told the force to piss off. Totally was expecting him to break out of that force hold.

Cashiers probably, a lot of the supermarkets here in the UK are bringing in automated machines to scan and pay by yourself, with usually 1 customer advisor watching over, you know, for the people incapable of working the machines hehe.