If your job duties resemble an algorithm, you will be unemployed in 10 years

Taxi and truck drivers need to watch out for automated cars. That will be a wave of unemployment.

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

???

lawyers? you have no clue. i love it when kids like this try to play grown-ups.

Retiring just under the wire!

I'll be retired in 10 years.

crete wrote:

lawyers?

Tis a consummation. Devoutly to be wished.

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

None of those jobs revolve around automation. Get out of your basement sometime.

Lol at the accountant part. I have been doing accounting my entire career and while automation has improved, I don't see the human element going away anytime soon.

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

You do stupid really, really well.

Dolomite wrote:

Lol at the accountant part. I have been doing accounting my entire career and while automation has improved, I don't see the human element going away anytime soon.

When Ron Paul wins in 2016 and abolishes the IRS, you're as good as useless. That's if TurboTax hasn't already rendered you so.

stryker drilling wrote:

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

None of those jobs revolve around automation. Get out of your basement sometime.

What does "revolve around automation" mean? Does any job do that?

running is an algorithm. should mo, meb, galen, et al. be worried?

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

I'm writing a PHP script right now that will make sh*tposting on LetsRun.com automated as well. Look's like you'll be out of a job too, jamin.

crete wrote:

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

???

lawyers? you have no clue. i love it when kids like this try to play grown-ups.

Yep. What computer algorithm is going to manage the closing for a real estate development transaction? With which computer program can I discuss potential issues associated with placing seller financing on a related party 4% LIHTC/tax-exempt bond project? Do you know what a lawyer is, Jamin?

Anyway, why would anyone want a job that "resembles an algorithm" in the first place? That sounds like a terrible way to spend one's life.

jamin wrote:

Dolomite wrote:

Lol at the accountant part. I have been doing accounting my entire career and while automation has improved, I don't see the human element going away anytime soon.

When Ron Paul wins in 2016 and abolishes the IRS, you're as good as useless. That's if TurboTax hasn't already rendered you so.

Accountants do more than taxes, troll.

Most people will have multiple careers, more so millennials,

Nothing to see here, move along.

guy who uses lawyers wrote:

crete wrote:

???

lawyers? you have no clue. i love it when kids like this try to play grown-ups.

Yep. What computer algorithm is going to manage the closing for a real estate development transaction? With which computer program can I discuss potential issues associated with placing seller financing on a related party 4% LIHTC/tax-exempt bond project? Do you know what a lawyer is, Jamin?

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Thomas Friedman said Infosys is creating an application that will replace lawyers. It's happening.

jamin wrote:

That goes for accountants, lawyers and running journalists, for example. Automation will make your skills obsolete.

What will be developed in the next 10 years that will automate what accountants do?

Or Lawyers?

Or journalists?

You know, you really make it harder on yourself than it needs to be. What good comes to you, by doing something like this?

10 years is too short. Probably more like 30-50.

I've had vicious gas all day and I just ate jalapeño pita chips. Anyway, my job as a professional fart wrangler is not in jeopardy.