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Automation could wipe out 375-800 million jobs globally in the next 13 years, including 16-54 million in the U.S. But don't worry, there's a new job waiting for you:
The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.
[...] "The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report, told CNN Tech. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."
[...] "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday November 30 2017, @05:10PM (5 children)
You don't know what an introvert is. An introvert isn't someone who's antisocial. It's someone who can't deal with social relationships more than a set number of hours per day, and needs time to disconnect and be on their own the rest of the time.
I know full well what an introvert is, and you're absolutely correct in your definition. I don't see how that contradicts my prior assertion: introverts don't want jobs where they have to be social all day long. Some introverts can handle more hours of socializing than others; if you can happily handle 10-12 hours, that's really quite a lot. Others don't feel comfortable spending even 8 hours chatting with people, so a full-time job full of constant socializing is not going to make them very happy. I certainly never meant to imply that introverts want to be hermits with zero social interaction ever. Personally, I'd be miserable. I like some social interaction here and there like any normal person, but a full and constant 8 hours of it, day in and day out? No thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:00PM (4 children)
And, most jobs don't require "socializing" (ie. interacting with others) anywhere near 8 hours a day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:31PM (2 children)
2 hours and I'm out :/
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:18PM (1 child)
The 5 second rule is my limit.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 01 2017, @01:15AM
Looks like you just exhausted your daily dose of socialisation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:30PM
Managerial jobs usually do, and those were specifically mentioned.
Most customer-service jobs do too, depending on how busy the establishment is.
Honestly, all the jobs that are most likely to be automated away that I can think of are the ones that are best-suited to introverts, or don't require that much human interaction: factory workers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, etc. Programming jobs are all turning social now with the rise of the Brogrammers and the open-plan office and Agile/Scrum.