Matteo
With the constant growth of technological advancements, how will this affect jobs in five to ten years?
Will some jobs diminish with more technology that can preform their tasks more effectively? If so what jobs?
Will other jobs be created to help with the technology?
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3 answers
Robert Frankus
Robert’s Answer
Hi Matteo,
Technology has always moved forward and changed many things. Think about how much technology has replaced jobs in our every day life in the last 30 years, e.g. dish washers, telephone, Internet, etc. Much of that is to make it easier for us.
When I look at my career over the last 20 years in tech, I have a completely different skill set now than 20 years ago. The main reason is that you need to focus on continuous learning, for example I think of my current job at Salesforce as a job where I contribute with my expertise that I have build over the last 20 years but I also look at it as an Internship where I still learn something new every day. Curiosity is always your friend, you have to try things and then follow your passion.
To answer your questions, I do think that every job changes over 5-10 years but that means you are learning and need to adopt at change. At work we always say, there is only one thing for certain and that is Change.
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Bruna Dahm Wanderley
Bruna’s Answer
Several other professions have faced the same situation. This output happens where the technological change is accompanied by a process through which the old, usually manual, is replaced with the new technologies, making existing tasks, skills, and occupations obsolete.
It is quite clearly that machines have been taking on more repetitive and laborious tasks, and routine manual jobs suffer most because machinery can readily serve as a substitute for human labor. By contrast, innovation and knowledge-intensive work seem no closer to eliminating the need for a human (brain and hands) in cognitive non-routine tasks where technology is highly complementary and employment growth has been strong. As well, jobs that are not repetitive and low knowledge-based, doesn't seem to be replaced soon.
My advice: choose a career path which have low manual tasks, knowledge-intensive, that you can always keep learning and innovating.
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Brandon Hulick
Brandon’s Answer
It will have a dramatic effect. It's likely you wont see the whole world change in 5-10 years but you will see it happen over 50 years. Different countries and different states will evolve at different rates. The disruption to jobs will happen in phases. One hot topic right now in regard to a field expecting to be disrupted in the next 5-10 years is truck drivers.
The expectation is that truck drivers will be displaced by self driving vehicles. This seems straight forward, in that as soon as we perfect self driving vehicles, wont truck drivers, taxi drivers, Uber drivers and so on be out of a job? The answer is the technology will be available to do this, but it will happen in phases. Some truck driving companies will have the funds available to invest in these self driving vehicles and some will not. Some will believe in the self driving vehicle technology and some will want to wait until they see it has been tried and tested by other companies in their field before making the jump. There are many factors that impact the rate of this evolution but to address the two I mentioned being, financial, and trust in technology, you can see how the whole world wont change the second the technology becomes available. That being said over the next 100 years it is very likely that the majority of truck driving will be automated by self driving vehicles. This is just one example but we can take this concept and expand it across many fields that are susceptible to automation.
I recommend that you choose your career path very wisely with this knowledge. Be aware of the fields that are at risk for automation and avoid those as you are young and will need to work for many years to come. There for when you choose your career path, you want to be aligned with a growing industry / job that is not at risk for automation. That is your best bet to a long and prosperous career path with minimal disruptions that are out of your control due to automation.