Top 5 Jobs in 2030?

Do you remember life before iPhone, Uber, Internet, GPS, Waze and the like? Most of our current useful tools didn’t exist 15-25 years ago.

By 2025, we will lose over 5 million jobs to automation. But jobs will be more interesting. Future jobs will involve knowledge creation and innovation. Although no one can accurately predict what jobs will look like in the future, these are seven skills for your future success:

(i)        Mental Elasticity

            Mental flexibility is to think outside the box, see the big picture, re-arrange things and find a solution.

(ii)       Critical Thinking

            Constant analysis of situations, multiple solutions and making decisions.

(iii)      Creativity

            Robots may not be able to do creative, original thinking, so it is less likely for you to lose your job.

(iv)       People skills

            You need to learn to manage and work with people in the future.

(v)        STEM

            As technology progresses, more advanced STEM skills are required, including coding.

(vi)       SMAC

            SMAC is not St Mary’s Anglican Church but stands for social, mobile, analytics and cloud. Learning all of these makes you standout.

(vii)      Interdisciplinary knowledge

            For creativity, knowledge of different fields helps. So do a double major in college!

So what are future jobs? Crimson Education listed ten jobs but I am only listing my favourite five:

(i)        Waste Engineer – humans produces 2.6 billion pounds of garbage and what do we do with it? Fill a landfill. So turning rubbish into power or other items will help the planet.

(ii)       Organ/Body Part Creator – creating parts from stem cells and other materials. Every day twenty one people die because they could not get an organ.

(iii)      Commercial Space Pilot – with flying to other planets becoming possible, commercial space pilot is a probable career route.

(iv)       Memory Surgeon – surgically removing bad memories, mental illness and destructive behaviour. Ethical issues are involved here but there are far less prisons and policemen.

(v)        Personal Productive Person (PPP) – this is not the political party but a job that analyses people’s daily lives and reducing distractions in order to work harder and smarter!

So plan for the future with good skill sets from a reputable institution.

Reference:

To 10 jobs in 2030: skills you need now to land the jobs of the future, Crimson Education