In the beginning of his talk he described how difficult it is to educate for the jobs of the future when it is difficult to even imagine what the future will looks like. Technology is transforming that landscape faster every day.
For our first blog post of Q2, talk about what field or subject you are interested in studying in college and why. Then search this website for your area of interest to see the likely hood that it will exist in the future and discuss your findings.
One of the major fields that I'm interested in studying during school is Software Development. The reason I am interested in technology is because I've loved every bit of technology that I've come across. The tech field is always changing and as someone who loves a fast paced and ever changing lifestyle I love the fact that I don't have to stick to one thing in my career. When I checked the likelihood of my career become automated, there was a 12.8% chance of it doing so.
ReplyDeleteI find that despite their being high paying jobs to do certain things, they are much more likely to be automated in the future. Whereas creative and harder jobs are careers that are least likely to change in the future. It's very interesting that jobs that are for entertaining people are much harder to be successful in but are the careers that will never be automated. Yet, many creative people feel that going into regular jobs 9-5 that they are probably more successful than if they were to go through with their more creative careers.
Yesterday, I was sitting in the car with my grandfather after he picked me up after tennis. I asked him, "Is it hard to get a job today?". My grandfather looked at me for a moment and turned his eyes back on the road. "Yes, it is", he replied with a sigh, "It's looking like jobs that are relevant to the arts or entertainment are easier to get into than business or legal work. The most prolific job that you can get is nursing and most people don't have the mindset for that."
ReplyDeleteI sat and pondered for a few moments. I'm not exactly sure what I want to get into but I know that I want it to include my skills in writing, talking to people, multitasking, performing, technology, and speaking. With these kind of skills, I could end up working as a teacher, a writer, an actor or anything that has to do with the Arts, Entertainment, Design, Education, Social Services or something along those lines.
There are certain aspects that anamotronics or automated robots can do but there are others things they also can't do which includes some of the skills I have. You also can't always depend on a computer to be perfect like people. It's probably more expensive to keep a machine running than it is to pay a hardworking person that you can have a certain relationship with unlike a machine.
In college, I would like to become a chef. What type of chef?, I don't know, all I do know is that I want to cook. The way I am describing this might be unorthodox but have you ever just felt a thrill doing something? Well that is what I feel when I cook. I love seeing the reactions people make when they take a bite of my meals, and the complements I receive. As it stands right now my post for the for "will my job be done with technology" I chose to be a head chef and the result was 10.1%.
ReplyDeleteThere are two main colleges I'm looking at right now: the Naval Academy and the Coast Guard Academy. If I go to USNA I plan to major in Arabic. If I go to USCGA I plan to get a degree in Government. My long-term goal is to acquire a position in the FBI, either as a linguist or a special agent. For a long time I’ve been interested in law enforcement as well as the complex workings of international governments and interactions. To be apart of those organizations that impact the entire world would be absolutely amazing.
ReplyDeleteThe options most similar to the two careers mentioned above are “Detectives and Criminal Investigators”. There is a 33.6% chance that these jobs will be automated in the future. I think that is a bit ridiculous. Can a machine detect when a person being interrogated is lying, or hiding an important fact? Can a machine pursue a fleeing criminal, or administer first aid to an injured officer/victim? I think not!
Only a cyborg/robot-like machine could carry out law enforcement work, and we’ve seen how well that turned out in I-Robot and Terminator.
What about lie detectors? Are they accurate? I wonder what the rate of success is.
DeleteJust this week, the Bank of England issued a caveat regarding the job market. It said in 10-20 years, 80 million U.S jobs and 15 million U.K jobs have the potential of being supplanted by machines. Roughly, that would render 50% of the population in each country unemployed. With statistics that say movie producers are only at, approximately, a 2 percent chance of being automated, I should feel confident that my dream career won’t be apart of that 50 percent. However, the movie industry has suffered some casualties due to machines/computers, forcing me to raise questions about my own future.
ReplyDeleteWith the evolution of digital moviemaking, the projectionist is all but gone, and the cinematographer’s role lessened. Physical film is on its way out. CGI can create almost anything. Extras, carpenters, costume makers, the jobs of these craftspeople and a lot more have been minimized by the use of CGI. If these elements have been reduced, what’s to say even a role as integral as a producer can’t be reduced or totally replaced?
Nonetheless, I am remaining optimistic and am even excited for the challenge automation will offer me in the years to come.
Since I was younger I've wanted to be a teacher. I'm not exactly sure if I want to be a special education teacher or an elementary school teacher. I love taking care of kids, showing them new things, and listening to their stories. There is a 0.7% chance that my job will be taken over by machines.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw a computer, I was automatically drawn to it. I wanted to know everything about it. How it was built, the applications it has, and most importantly how these applications work. I'm a person whose creative not in her drawing skills, but in her ideas. And with this I always contribute ideas and sort of sit behind the curtain directing how my ideas are carried out. I like to work behind the scenes or in my case in front of a screen. And I also like to keep to myself and not be placed in the spotlight. This is why sitting behind a screen and pulling the strings, or typing the commands, sounds so appealing to me. This is why I want to major in Computer Science. I want to learn how everything works, learn to make some of my own applications and programs, and then marvel at my work and feel proud of my accomplishments.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what job I would like to have yet, but picking one from the website, Software Development looks like it's more up my alley. And thankfully it looks like it won't be replaceable any time soon. Why is that? Because you need creative minds to develop all of the background processes and apps that people are using on a day to day basis. And I don't know of any machines that have minds that are nearly as creative as humans because, they simply are machines programmed by humans to carry out specific actions. Nothing more, nothing less. They can't think for themselves and therefore cannot come up with even a third of all of the creative ideas floating around today.
According to the website on NPR, there is very likely to be software developer jobs well into the future. <5% chance a computer will be designing software.
DeleteI believe as a Senior, we should be able to take classes in school that would actually help us in college and for our career. We should be preparing ourselves for the majors we’re going to be taking in college instead of taking classes( for example : Calculus and Chemistry when we’re not going to be needing that in our future.The field that I’m interested in studying in college is fashion and business. All the subjects that I’m taking during senior year has nothing to do with the major and the career that I’m going to be apart of in the future.
ReplyDeleteI searched my website for my area of business, which is fashion business, and my results were 92.3% for Retail Sales Person. My goal is to be the CEO of my own fashion company and to have my own clothing line.
I am interested in studying language and possibly becoming a translator. At least that's what I want to do so far. I want to go into this profession because I find foreign languages beautiful and want to learn as many as I can. Also, in becoming a translator also allows me to travel and experience culture. Being someone who has never left the country, not even the caribbean, I would love a job that allows me to travel. My profession has a 38.4% chance of being automated, so I should quickly get to my career before the percentage rises.
ReplyDeleteI want to study business in college. I don't know if I want to do that in life but I have time to figure that all out. The job that I want has a 23.3% chance of becoming automated. I want to go into business because it seems interesting. I just want to be successful and make a lot of money when I grow up.
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