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I think education goal for people shifted. I teach my kids to be flexible and embrace the change. Invest in abilities that transfer well to various things you c

I think education goal for people shifted. I teach my kids to be flexible and embrace the change. Invest in abilities that transfer well to various things you could be doing during your life. Be a problem solver. In the future -- forget about cosy job you can be doing for the rest of your life. You no longer have any guarantees even if you own the business and even if you are farmer. What you absolutely don't want is spend X years at uni learning something, and then 5-10 years into your "career" finding out it was obsoleted overnight and you now don't have plan B.

rr888 4y ago
Liberal arts education will one day be back in fashion.
- twawaaay 4y ago
  Oh I do believe it. There will always be a market for snobs who will want to pay extra for handmade things vs AI-generated. The issue here is that it is all driven by fads and unstable. If you want to make money you will have to be flexible.
SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
> What you absolutely don't want is spend X years at uni learning something, and then 5-10 years into your "career" finding out it was obsoleted overnight and you now don't have plan B. That seems to be running directly opposite of the current trend of admin assistant jobs requiring 2 years specialized admin assistant diplomas. Tech (and I would guess the world of the business MBA) is a unique space where people are learning and changing so quickly, but for a lot of those outside the bubble things seem to be calcifying and requiring more and more training at the expensive of the worker.
yoyohello13 4y ago
Really the only safe career in the moderate future is going to be manual labor. There is always need to send a bunch of humans into the middle of nowhere to dig ditches.
- throwayyy479087 4y ago
  https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-everything-climate-infrastructure-labor/ https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-ever... Extremely relevant story

rr888 4y ago

Liberal arts education will one day be back in fashion.

twawaaay 4y ago
Oh I do believe it. There will always be a market for snobs who will want to pay extra for handmade things vs AI-generated. The issue here is that it is all driven by fads and unstable. If you want to make money you will have to be flexible.

SketchySeaBeast 4y ago

> What you absolutely don't want is spend X years at uni learning something, and then 5-10 years into your "career" finding out it was obsoleted overnight and you now don't have plan B. That seems to be running directly opposite of the current trend of admin assistant jobs requiring 2 years specialized admin assistant diplomas. Tech (and I would guess the world of the business MBA) is a unique space where people are learning and changing so quickly, but for a lot of those outside the bubble things seem to be calcifying and requiring more and more training at the expensive of the worker.

yoyohello13 4y ago

Really the only safe career in the moderate future is going to be manual labor. There is always need to send a bunch of humans into the middle of nowhere to dig ditches.

throwayyy479087 4y ago
https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-everything-climate-infrastructure-labor/ https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-ever... Extremely relevant story