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The article comes out of the Australian press, but unless there's something truly unique about the Australian job market, it's almost certainly true elsewhere as well: a recent study shows more than half of young Australians are receiving college education to persue careers that will soon no longer exist. Thank robotics, industry consolidation, and the nature of the markets for the shrinking number of ways you will some day be able to earn a living.
There's a flip side to the debate, of course: there are certainly new things coming that haven't even been invented yet, that will provide job opportunities. But the trick is positioning yourself appropriately to take advantage of the new chances.
The not-for-profit group, which works with young Australians to create social change, says the national curriculum is stuck in the past and digital literacy, in particular, needs to be boosted. Foundation chief executive Jan Owen says young people are not prepared for a working life that could include five career changes and an average of 17 different jobs.
She says today's students will be affected by three key economic drivers: automation, globalisation and collaboration. "Many jobs and careers are disappearing because of automation," Ms Owen said. "The second driver is globalisation — a lot of different jobs that we're importing and exporting. And then thirdly collaboration which is all about this new sharing economy."
How does one future-proof his/her life and career?
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @11:32AM
In a market where horse labor is going to go away. Either position yourself into one of the jobs that will still exist, or prepare to be taken to the glue factory. Your owners don't care a shit about you otherwise.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @11:49AM
> Either position yourself into one of the jobs that will still exist, or prepare to be taken to the glue factory. Your owners don't care a shit about you otherwise.
Oh there are a couple more options, like: burn down the barn, burn down the factory, burn up the owners. If you are headed to the glue factory, there is nothing stopping you from sharing the pain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @08:51PM
Same person as the parent.
You can try, but i think that will get you a bullet to the head by the police. At least here in the states.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 28 2015, @09:45PM
Hmm, here in the states police are far from the only ones with powerful weapons. They ought to mind their behavior, lest they find themselves outgunned [wikipedia.org]. That's in a straight-up fight. They might also consider that if they choose to play that way, then the location of their wives and children are also entirely discoverable. They do not exist in a vacuum, no matter how much they might imagine or arrogate themselves to be. They too can be gotten to by irate citizens.
However remote, gun ownership and a revolutionary past are still not forgotten by important swathes of the American people. If the government and its corporate masters press the issue too far, they may become newly acquainted with that heritage.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:46AM
> that will get you a bullet to the head by the police.
What part of glue factory do you fail to understand?
Do you see all those mass shootings on the news here in the states? Those are nearly all suicides. Those people have decided they want to share their pain with others on the way out. Police bullets to the head don't stop them, they encourage them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @03:08PM
They'll never obsolete drug dealers. Even when prohibition finally ends, its the dealers who will best be set up to capitalize and recalibrate their businesses legitimately.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday August 28 2015, @03:24PM
Here in Blighty, those compassionate Christian Conservatives are creating [theguardian.com] a quick, laissez-faire highway to the glue factory.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].