Working 9 to 5 as Dolly Parton once crooned is changing fast. Jobs come and they go. Chimney sweep once employed large numbers of young people. Not so now.
Many of today’s school children will work in jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. That "eventually" day will arrive faster than you think.
Many of today’s school children will work in jobs that haven't even been invented yet. That "eventually" day will arrive faster than you think.
Kiwi-born, Australian based futurologist Craig Rispin says opportunities for jobs in growth industries abound if young people are willing to think outside the square to grasp them.
He cites the example of a young man who used his existing skills in IT and reinvented himself as a "bioinformatics" specialist. Bioinformatics is a rapidly growing field in need of new workers that uses computer science, statistics, mathematics and engineering to process biological data.
The two wider industries with most potential for a boom are life sciences and the services, says Rispin. The jobs will be vastly more varied than anyone can imagine. For example, in the service industry there will be jobs such as drone and robot managers.
Other jobs with bright futures include:
What matters, says Rispin, isn’t the exact job you’ll do. It’s preparing you for a vastly different world of work. It's all about executing the grand plan. Study a double degree, he says. Look at how many graduates in a course are actually getting jobs, and study and up skill yourself online at organisations such as the Singularity University where you can learn about disciplines of the future.