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I keep wondering what kind of jobs are going to be there for my kids and what I need to be teaching them. My oldest daughter wants to have a beauty business ins

I keep wondering what kind of jobs are going to be there for my kids and what I need to be teaching them. My oldest daughter wants to have a beauty business instead of go to college. I think she might be better off that way. I mean, the day when women would rather gossip to a machine while getting their hair cut by it is a long way off. I'm not so sure what to do for my other kids though.

extra88 10y ago
Not everyone needs a four-year degree but on top of whatever education and training makes sense for the "beauty business," I think taking some classes on how to run a business would be important.
ryandrake 10y ago
> I mean, the day when women would rather gossip to a machine while getting their hair cut by it is a long way off. It might be a while before it happens, but it will happen. I believe that the answer to "when will my job be done by a robot" is "sooner than you think" for all professions.
- marchenko 10y ago
  It depends on what the point of a haircut is. For many demographics, the actual haircut is not the primary component of the regular salon experience.
- mafro 10y ago
  Even the guys whose job it is to program the robots?
  - varjag 10y ago
    His job would possibly be gone before the hairdresser's is.
  - sdiupIGPWEfh 10y ago
    Robots will be programming the robots. There will hopefully be a select few humans at least overseeing the robot programming robots.
mattchew 10y ago
My kids are teenagers now, I'm looking at this too. I'm pretty sure that going to college with only a fuzzy idea of why you're there and what you're expecting to get out of it isn't a smart move any more. Me and a whole lot of my peers did just this and it mostly worked out OK for us, but it's a different game now. I don't know that my kids will be ready to be intentional about college at 18. They might be better off waiting a few years, working an unskilled job and learning some of that side of adulthood before going to college. Of course, "they" say if you do that you'll probably never go to college at all. I don't want my kids stuck in low wage jobs forever either. One thing I'm hoping for is cheaper ways of getting college credentials. I've seen some stuff around the edges here, but nothing that has rung the awesome bell yet.

extra88 10y ago

Not everyone needs a four-year degree but on top of whatever education and training makes sense for the "beauty business," I think taking some classes on how to run a business would be important.

ryandrake 10y ago

> I mean, the day when women would rather gossip to a machine while getting their hair cut by it is a long way off. It might be a while before it happens, but it will happen. I believe that the answer to "when will my job be done by a robot" is "sooner than you think" for all professions.

marchenko 10y ago
It depends on what the point of a haircut is. For many demographics, the actual haircut is not the primary component of the regular salon experience.
mafro 10y ago
Even the guys whose job it is to program the robots?
- varjag 10y ago
  His job would possibly be gone before the hairdresser's is.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 10y ago
  Robots will be programming the robots. There will hopefully be a select few humans at least overseeing the robot programming robots.

mattchew 10y ago

My kids are teenagers now, I'm looking at this too. I'm pretty sure that going to college with only a fuzzy idea of why you're there and what you're expecting to get out of it isn't a smart move any more. Me and a whole lot of my peers did just this and it mostly worked out OK for us, but it's a different game now. I don't know that my kids will be ready to be intentional about college at 18. They might be better off waiting a few years, working an unskilled job and learning some of that side of adulthood before going to college. Of course, "they" say if you do that you'll probably never go to college at all. I don't want my kids stuck in low wage jobs forever either. One thing I'm hoping for is cheaper ways of getting college credentials. I've seen some stuff around the edges here, but nothing that has rung the awesome bell yet.