This is a list of jobs which will be obsolete in 10-15 years time

What careers will not be obsolete?

Runner - in the future robots will roll wheels of cheese down hills for our amusement

Some lunatic wrote:

Runner - in the future robots will roll wheels of cheese down hills for our amusement

Haha! Those videos are priceless.

Also, OP, 10-15 years? No. Maybe 30-40.

wang dang doodle wrote:

What careers will not be obsolete?

1) Psychologist / Psychiatrist

Computers will never develop the level of empathy required to understand the human psyche, plus lots of people will go insane through the solitude of our lives in the future.

2) Artist / Musician / Dancer

Beauty created by other humans will never cease to be celebrated

3) Prostitute

Oldest industry in the world and will always be in demand

Careers Advisor wrote:

8) Surgeon

Surgery will be handled by robots

Surgery has already started to incorporate a lot of robotic applications, but it will be a looooooong time before robots are performing surgery autonomously without a human surgeon involved in the procedure. In the foreseeable future, robotic surgery will involve a robot assisting (rather than replacing) a human surgeon.

False on #3, sex robots are in the very near future and they will blow your mind while being legal and easy on your wallet.

The world will always demand alcohol, probably made by humans for the foreseeable future, and definitely served by humans. So bartenders and bar owners are set for awhile.

Careers Advisor wrote:

1) Computer programmer / coder

All coding jobs will be outsourced to cheap labor countries (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan etc). There will be no work for you unless you live in one of these poor countries.

I know this is a troll thread, but as someone who has lived in China and had an extended stay in Taiwan, I need to say that Taiwan and China are not the same place. Taiwan is one of the last places you go if you actually want cheap labor.

As a somewhat bare comparison, Taiwan has a GDP per capita of $30000+, while China has a GDP per capita of roughly $6000-$7000.

Fast food worker. Once the minimum wage is increased, these low skill jobs will be mostly automated. They've already put the pop dispenser on the customer side of the counter (extra pop that customers may take is cheaper than paying someone to fill the cups for them). They're now implementing ordering your meals from your smart phones or in store touch screens (Burger King/Applebees, etc.). There will still be some workers for a long time, but store will get by with 2-3 employees at a time instead of 5-6. It'll be cheaper to automate.

Probably just about ALL "good" jobs will be obsolete in the future EXCEPT "business consultant". If you can figure out how to compete in the business world with everything being outsourced, mechanized and otherwise done away with than you will make millions. Of course the reason you will make so much money is that is a very difficult thing to do. Try it!

Taiwan is "poor"? China is "poor"?

Sri Lanka is a middle income country. Cheap labor is not the same thing as "poor" and I doubt Taiwan is cheap labor anyway.

I wouldn't count on nanotech walls in 10 years.

"You will have a newsfeed which will be auto-generated and scripted to your taste by a computer"

You have that now and it hasn't eliminated those who gather the content.

"5) Pilot

Development of drones will eventually lead to all aircrafts will being controlled by robots"

again, that technology is possible now. "Soon an airplane will have one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls." Heard that from my airline pilot uncle 25 years ago.

If you think teachers are going away, ask the teachers' union about homeschooling. The technology is already mature for home learning, but it's not taking a big bite out of the number of school students or teachers.

Business consultant. they've always been obsolete. hasn't hurt their pay.

who tells the robot surgeon where to cut?

Super Jay Five wrote:

Probably just about ALL "good" jobs will be obsolete in the future EXCEPT "business consultant". If you can figure out how to compete in the business world with everything being outsourced, mechanized and otherwise done away with than you will make millions. Of course the reason you will make so much money is that is a very difficult thing to do. Try it!

Business consultants have never been able to figure out business. This is why they are business consultants and not business owners.

keeper wrote:

who tells the robot surgeon where to cut?

Some sort of 3d x-ray / MRI scan will be processed by the robot and provide information on where to cut

OPs post assumes the widespread proliferation of automated processes, which requires programmers who probably won't live in Bangladesh.

ceylaveee wrote:

the time for a minimum wage for ALL adults working or not is here.

millions of Americans are giving up even looking for a job. Lets not make it a bad thing, the time of Star Trek is here, work for those that want it. Robots, computers, etc. for other tasks.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/10/news/economy/jobless-job-market-dropouts/

The idea that people WHO NEED TO WORK just throw up their hands and "give up" (and what, live under a bridge?) is ludicrous...and stupid really; anyone who really believes that is flat out stupid.

People are dropping out of the workforce for many reasons:

1) RETIREMENT. 10,000 Americans every single day now turn 67 years old, or what is considered "full retirement" for them (an odd term since they payouts in SS will continue to grow until they are 70.

2) The article you linked said only a third of teenagers are working or looking for work. True. That is the result of two things: affluence, and tougher academic standards in both high school and college. In my teenage daughter's case, she has never had a regular job...she has volunteered and she has dog sat, but that's it. The reason? Affluence (my wife and I make enough money to give her a decent allowance so that she can buy the things a teenager needs and wants), and tougher academic standards (and athletic standards). In order to leave room for more difficult classes during the school year, she took a summer class each of the last three summers. Couple that with cross country practice that starts the day after school ends (not officially, but the girls all get together to run 5 days a week and then lift 2 mornings a week too, and if you want to do well in the fall, you need to put in the work over the summer), and all the studying she does, and she just has no time for a job. I recognize the downside. Having to work for someone else is an important lesson, but it's one she will have to wait for.

3) NOT NEEDING TO WORK. In 2008, the job market was in a very bad way. People were losing jobs left and right, so when some jobs started to come back, BOTH adults in a household took jobs when they could find them, then eventually one of them found a better job, one that could support them and their kids, so the other one stepped out of the workforce to be home with the kids or take care of an elderly parent, etc. That's the result of an ever-improving economy.

No one ever answers me when I ask them this, but what the hell do you think these people are doing for money who have thrown up their hands and stopped looking for work? Where are they? Are landlords letting them live rent free? NO...they are out of the workforce because they don't need to be in it.

This is silly.

-Nanotech walls, wtf? I think it would be a little bit more practical to just paint your walls.

-Computers will never replace teachers completely. They're a great tool but aren't as effective, to my knowledge.

-Programming requires lots of skill, experience, and education. This isn't something you can outsource like factory jobs. If a country has such a skilled workforce, it isn't a poor country.

Analog watches have been obsolete for decades, but they still account for the vast majority of the watch market compared to digital.

Careers Advisor wrote:

Super Jay Five wrote:

Probably just about ALL "good" jobs will be obsolete in the future EXCEPT "business consultant". If you can figure out how to compete in the business world with everything being outsourced, mechanized and otherwise done away with than you will make millions. Of course the reason you will make so much money is that is a very difficult thing to do. Try it!

Business consultants have never been able to figure out business. This is why they are business consultants and not business owners.

On the contrary VERY FEW people go into business that really know what they are doing! Most business people only succeed AFTER they have failed at least once. The big mistake people make is they think that a business plan will solve their problems. The second mistake is they don't realise that to succeed on a large scale you will HAVE TO HAVE A PARTNER! In other words you will have to have a "consultant" to do what you can't do. People think that they can do it all and almost no one can.

Teachers are just psychologists in a classroom. Teachers are never going away.