Posted on 10/26/2017 1:48:01 PM PDT by vikk
Manufacturing will fall. Retail will wobble. Automation will inch along but stay off the roads, for now. The rich will keep getting richer. And more and more of the country will be paid to take care of old people. That is the future of the labor market, according to the latest 10-year forecast from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These 10-year-forecast reports—the products of two years’ work from about 25 economists at the BLS —document the government’s best assessment of the fastest and slowest growing jobs of the future. On the decline are automatable work, like typists, and occupations threatened by changing consumer behavior, like clothing store cashiers, as more people shop online.
Isn’t the Atlantic another Leftist “intellectual-elite” magazine rife with half-truths and false assumptions?
It’s due to a lack of toxic masculinity. Real men have about died off and I’m not feeling too good myself.
That’s a pretty condescending title. Crummy little word smith has none of the skills needed for either job set
Sorry guys. This is no longer Obama’s economy. You wasted your time because you based your work on an outdated model.
Tech is power and the aging of America means job security and expanded opportunities.
The trades are rife with opportunities as well.
“And more and more of the country will be paid to take care of old people.”
I’ve shelled out over $42,000 in the past 5 years for 3 hours a week to ‘help’ my elderly Dad.
It’s a total racket. I’ve finally gotten him into Care Wisconsin which is run by Medicare/Medicaid and now *I* am being paid to help care for him, along with his best care worker that I stole away from another company. ;)
I can see this being a VERY cut-throat and successful industry as the rest of us get older and grayer.
One of the smartest business models I’ve seen popping up around here is that someone builds a rather large home, complete with a communal kitchen and lots of bedrooms with their own bathrooms, and all on one floor. Then, you hire a RN or two to be on staff and you and your family live there, too, overseeing things, in somewhat separate quarters. (A friend recovering from a heart transplant lived in a situation like this before he could go home again; he loved it.)
I’m sure it takes some capital to get it up and running, but it would be a real money maker after that; people around here are BEGGING for safe places to stow their elderly and infirm. ;)
I’m actually pretty bullish about that - automobile deaths were a serious scandal when the auto first became popularized. But the genie of mobility was out of the bottle, and wasn’t going back in easily. Even tho we have, what - 30,000 highway fatalities a year? And how many serious injuries annually on top of that???Automobile autopilots have a liability problem - but when the competition is manual driving with its scores of thousands of annual casualties . . .
That’s a serious opportunity there. "Automation will stay off the roads" - until suddenly it doesn’t.
I worked for a man for years that had a huge house like you described. The house had several bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and a maid’s quarters. The master suite even had a small kitchen. That house was built in the 1950s and his son called it the mausoleum; made fun of his father for building such a house. It has been very well kept and regularly updated and was in fantastic shape. The family did not want it, they thought it was just too much and old fashioned. They sold it and it is now being used as private nursing home. It brought a fortune, far beyond what anyone in the family expected to get for the “white elephant” as they called it.
The world/USA will always need:
-Food
-Housing
-plumbing
-electricians
-linemen
I’m sure I left out a few. There is plenty of trade work out there that will pay well. No, you can’t sit on your butt and type on a computer, but it’s good work with good pay.
Oh great. All we need is those bossy nurses running things
... in their cartoon print scrubs that make them look like Teletubbies ready for beddie-bye. What is it with the overwhelming majority of fat nurses too, by the way? Whatever happened to leading by example?
Id like to be able to die a happy man. She has the right assets to do the job.
Exactly! Wish I were more ambitious in my retirement. Those homes are going to be solid money-makers as we all age. No doubt!
It's propaganda by any other name.
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