richardhutnik on 28 July 2011
| nightsurge said: Well, the automotive and transportation industries will never be fully automated. At least not for a very very long time, and transportation needs will continue to rise as populations do. Also, programming, technical jobs, etc. are all on the rise and will continue to do so. Eventually the companies that outsource their programming/tech support departments will revoke back to their own in house departments because the countries with which we outsource to are becoming more technical and self dependent and making higher wages. What we will see as we go on is a shift of employment to new areas. Areas with which you did not cover, such as the more technology based, transportation, etc. Services will also not be going anywhere for a very very long time. |
What areas? There was talk of "green jobs" but how are they any different than what we have now? What are the new areas to come along? Programming is also on an endangered list, particularly in the west, due to outsourcing to India and elsewhere. And for tech support, there is consolidation, and use of expert systems to address customer needs. Also, there is a push for even simplier designs so that there are less issues. You return troubled equipment. Even now, there is Geeksquad doing reinstalls of systems. As there is a push for cloud storage and virtualization, everything is centralized.
So, where does the big demand in labor to come from?
