What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?

"2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!”

2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”"

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Autopilot Unstucker: Your job will be to travel around to various roads in your city where an AI driven vehicle has gotten stuck and move it.

Robot Janitor: as more and more robots take over menial jobs someone’s gotta clean and maintain them.

Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

Prompt Expert: a person who comes up with better and more creative prompts for AI generated content. Including AI generated images, music, and likely movies and shows, architecture and design in the future.

Personal social credit manager. Every business you interact with will run an automatic background check on you based on all the data you've leaked on the Internet. Without a long history in the tracking databases, you'll be flagged as a bot or a suspicious person. So to live in such system and still have some privacy, you will hire a manager for your fake online persona who will specialize in generating plausible and inoffensive engagement metadata for your identities.

- Pollinator drone swarm pilot;

- Landfill miner;

- Waterfighter (like firefighters, but to quash leaks in barriers built to contain rising seas);

- Antarctic illegal migrant (after temperatures rise and becomes too dangerous to move into the global north due to xenophobia);

AI trainer?

I have a dystopian view of the future world so I think a lot of tech work will focus on monitoring, analyzing and predicting. AI is going to play a big part of it but I don't think General AI is going to be easy. Most likely people will simply train AI accordingly, like the mainframe operators. Low pay but stable work.

Tech archaeologist?

Going forward a hundred years probably someone has to dig some tech and manual out and re-create them. A lot of the material is online now but imagine what happens if archive.org is forced to shutdown and the data is lost forever to the general public.

Tanglement co-ordinator - Someone who can determine whether an object is quantumly entangled with a pair elsewhere.

eMUA - someone who can spruce up your online avatar with the latest looks or graphical techniques/trends. Like going to a IRL stylist.

Privacy Agent - someone you pay when your personal/online details has been hacked into to resolve the situation. Or someone you pay to do a periodic check-up to mitigate them being stolen. Similar to a lawyer who you call when you’re in trouble or a bodyguard to stop you getting into trouble in the first place.

Fluid Worker (multi-professional) - A family or group will share the same virtual persona and take turns to work remotely as a single worker. In low-income regions large communities will share job positions with top salaries. A Fluid Worker Chief will be elected to visit the offices for events and parties. Burned-out individuals will be replaced by younger ones. After World Office War I the Fluid Worker will be legalized, and the roles in companies will be performed by sub-companies which are also allowed to contract their contractor recursively, producing the first Fluid Worker mega-mergers.

Kind of OT, feel free to skip my naive thoughts.

I was sort of hoping that cryptocurrency would cause a societal shift in the “value” of money. That is, it could have been used to solve some tough issues like elder care and mental health. Right now, a lot of PE companies are running these facilities on fumes and trying to get every penny they can off the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors. If “value” was shifted to something else, and not just exchanging for USD, I wonder if it could have been possible to start funding these sorts of activities based on societal good. Sorry if it sounds lame, but knowing some elderly and mentally challenged people in my life, I feel really bad when I think about how much they’ve been pushed aside and under the rug.

Space guide. When you and your billionaire friends and family go up to Bezos space cock orbiting facility you’ll need a full concierge and guides to show you around all the interesting bits you can observe from your temporary phallic residence.

Look for new but already existing jobs which have fewer than a few dozen people worldwide working them. High density hydroponic farmer? Zero-G farmer? Artificial meat engineer?

One safe bet about the future would seem to be that environment degradation will worsen, and jobs connected to that will increase.

We don’t think too carefully today about optimizing water usage, or protecting houses from wildfire. But there’s billions of dollars in assets that rely heavily on those things. So jobs linked to preserving their value will increase.

Flint knapper, fire keeper, and other post-apocalyptic Great Reset tasks.

Urban salmon farmer (manage artificial rivers full of salmon)

Industrial 3D Printer repairman (giant 3D printers that need repair)

Molecular pharmacist (customizes medicine to best suit the patients needs)

Food/parcel delivery robot rescue van guy.

A person with a small electric (Ford Transit, etc) sized van that drives around dense urban area and retrieves sidewalk based/pedestrian area, stuck/failed/inoperable food/parcel delivery robots from public places and returns them to some regional repair depot.

I think no one has mentioned bioengineers. We're going to be programming life in the future and will need engineers to design and create new biological things.

Digital Therapist: a person who helps you with your internet addiction

Interpreter for AI: helps people understand what AI is trying to say

Data Detective: someone who makes sure data is accurate and not tampered with

Remote 6g operator. To deliver on the promise of self driving you remotely control delivery drones/trucks/cars for other people.

Curation has always been a job, but I think that someone who takes the flood of data, uses tools to search and index it, and make it usable, like librarians, and researchers, will always be in demand.

I don't think that we'll be doing much in space, I don't think AI is going to take over the world. We'll still be farming, and mining, and making things.

Farming will become a more localized activity, as the idea of regenerative agriculture spreads, the need for local management to manage things in detail, instead of massive monocultures, will require on site people.

There will also be a strong need for repair and maintenance. TV and Radio repair was a thing, then it almost died out... something like that will definitely be making a comeback in the years and decades ahead.

We'll not be able to simply discard all the embedded energy in a perfectly good item that only needs a small repair, or maintenance. A strong emphasis on quality and durability is coming.

Martian colonist? (Though the reality is likely to be grueling, risky work, no matter how sepia-toned the sky. With a tiny number of actual positions.)

Lunar colonist? (Similar, though "colonist" might be a bit less hyper-optimistic a title.)

Fusion power plant operator.

Nanoengineer.

"Impossible food" flavor/texture/etc. artist. (Kinda like a chef, with not-quite-Star-Trek food-making technology.)

Any job likely to be replaced by AI will have 1 person overseeing the machines or programs that replaced 10 old employees

ex. Person who remote controls a fleet of a dozen trucks to get them unstuck or person who approves AI drawings to verify they’re not offensive

DNA engineer

DNA analyst

DNA analytics based match/wedding maker

DNA analytics based life/personal/job coach

DNA analytics based future planner

Sanitation Engineer.

(In the context of finding innovative ways to recycle garbage for rare resources.)

- Mom as a Service: in a remote future, where the concept of family will vanish, the government will hire women as moms who will nurture the babies. New human children will not be born from anybody. You have to obtain a license to procreate and after that that the baby won't grow in your home but in specialized Growth Centers away from the biological parents.

- Human Engineer: People who will investigate, analyze and give other people the license to procreate. The goal is to produce children who are fit (mentally, physcially...) to progress the society and all that.

Robot Trainer - They will train bots to do new works.

Robot Safety specialist - As bots take over manufacturing, they will work more and more with human. You will have a person who train Robot to safely work with humans.

Drone Pilots/Drivers - These people will be responsible for driving drone in unplanned and unprepared scenarios

Metaverse adoption consultant , metaverse avatars designers, digital therapist for specific medical diseases, DAO regulators, digital bank cashiers, gaming ambassadors ……., any job you can imagine today it’s a real possibility in the future if you and your daughter create the need today !

robotsitter: in the future humans will take care of robots, one person will take care of many simple ones and many people will team to take care of one very complex. It already happens in some factories by in a few decades it will be everywhere.

Hopefully Account Recovery Agent at companies like Google & Facebook. I’ll never rely on a service that is willing to delete my entire online life without recourse because some bot incorrectly thinks I’m a business risk.

Ecogineer - ecology engineer.

Some kind of priesthood based around tinned food and geiger counters.

Space Cowboys?

Zero gravity personal trainers. They get you physically ready for the flight. Help you to stay in shape in space. Then retrain you for 1G of force back on earth.

I bet as long as humans exist, safety-critical industries will not let go of human managers. That's a job that will not perish.

What age is appropriate for the reader? Ask your daughter’s class adding some silly and serious prompts. Perfect for a children’s book.

> chef

How about "ghost kitchen solution architect"?

Any job that involves feelings or artistic sensibility will survive to AI apocalypse: Actor, psychologist, arts critic, etc...

Restroom cleaners will earn much more than they do today.

While many jobs will get automated, it turns out that building a robot that can clean arbitrary restrooms is as hard as building a self-driving car or harder, while the market incentives are missing.

Restroom cleaners first need to be paid well enough (or the smell intensifies), before Elon Musk can become interested in toilet cleaning.

Water guards. Private security guarding fresh water sources.

UBI recipient

Assisted Suicide Practitioner.

having the fun and life when everything is automated

Electric car charger repair business. Get the right contract and voom.

LSD trip guide

Copywriter.

AI prompter