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Help Wanted: These Are The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade
Statista ^ | 09/26/2025 | Felix Richter

Posted on 09/26/2025 9:19:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In light of the rapid advancements that AI tools have made since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, people have been pondering the potential of artificial intelligence to replace certain occupations, trying to figure out if and how the nascent technology will change the way people work.

And while the focus of discussions like this is often on the risk of certain jobs being replaced by emerging technologies, these shifts, as well as societal changes, usually offer new employment opportunities as well.

Think of the rise of e-commerce for example: while it has led to a decline in retail jobs and is projected to continue to do so, it has supported strong job growth in transportation and warehousing and still does. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment Projections, transportation and material moving will be among the faster-growing occupational groups for the coming decade as well, projected to add 580,000 jobs by 2034, with warehouse workers and truck drivers particularly in demand.

But as Statista's Felix Richter shows in the chart below, by far the biggest increase in employment is expected in the healthcare and social assistance sector, which is driven less by technological changes and more by demographic shifts.

Infographic: Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs of the Next Decade | Statista

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Due to the ageing population and the growing prevalence of chronic conditions, the wider healthcare sector is projected to account for 1.7 million new jobs by 2034, making up one third of all new jobs expected by the end of the projection period.

Looking at individual occupations, this trend is also evident, with home health and personal care aids projected to be by far the fastest-growing occupation over the next decade, adding 740,000 jobs by 2034. With registered nurses, medical and health service managers as well as nurse practitioners also in the top 10, it’s clear that the health sector as a whole is going to be a major driver of employment growth in the near future.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: biowartestsubject; employment; facestompering; jobs; labor; prostitution; robotrepair; skills
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To: know.your.why

“Yeop! My TOC is CNC systems for manufacturing. Learn CNC Machining and you’ll never be without a good paying job in any industrialized country in the world.”

3D Printing should be a job which would require many people. Think pre-fabs for affordable housing and the support that would be required for assembly.


21 posted on 09/27/2025 3:35:57 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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To: ansel12

I have no idea. No plumbers I know make 6 figures.


22 posted on 09/27/2025 3:36:57 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ponygirl

>> because AI makes logos like these:

ROFL! Pure comedy gold!


23 posted on 09/27/2025 3:40:45 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: central_va

>> The average wage for plumbers is mid 60s. Google it.

I know a bunch of plumbers & electricians around here who by their lifestyle obviously earn 6 figures. They’re entrepreneurs, and they don’t share their incomes with Google.

The key for tradesmen upward mobility is to start your own enterprise.

Not everyone is up to it; the rest earn $60K. And send 30% back to Mejico. :-)


24 posted on 09/27/2025 3:44:38 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: central_va

Where one plumbs makes a world of difference, most plumbers all over the nation are just blue collar guys who turn wrenches, but in some rich areas where highly skilled, personable, and intelligent service is required from professional type quality workmen, commission is often part of the job.

What got me to try plumbing was a commission of 50% of the labor, and 10% of the materials, that pay and working glamorous wealthy areas on the beaches with a lot of attractive females and very interesting customers, both of which were easily incorporated into my personal social life, made for a really nice job.


25 posted on 09/27/2025 3:48:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Ok whatever. That is one weird off the normal one off situation.


26 posted on 09/27/2025 3:51:18 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Nervous Tick

“””””I know a bunch of plumbers & electricians around here who by their lifestyle obviously earn 6 figures. They’re entrepreneurs, and they don’t share their incomes with Google.”””””

No kidding, they tend to play down their earnings and play modest, an odd thing about even successful plumbing companies is how many of the wealthy owners introduce themselves as a plumber rather than describe themselves like other businessmen and entrepreneurs do.


27 posted on 09/27/2025 3:53:38 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: central_va

Service plumbers working on commission isn’t weird nor one off, and it makes for better service.


28 posted on 09/27/2025 3:54:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: yesthatjallen

2D-3D CAD modelers and draftsman (Siemens NX, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, Creo, etc.)?


29 posted on 09/27/2025 4:03:37 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Nervous Tick
The key for everyone's upward mobility is to start your own enterprise.

You are right, I just expanded it a bit. Not everyone has the smarts and diligence to succeed at running a business. Those are the people who work for the business.

30 posted on 09/27/2025 4:24:36 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: dznutz

I was friends with the former president of the local community college.
Their number one graduate demand is auto body.
So much so that the local car dealerships are paying for students if they sign a contract to work for them when they graduate and during their education. They work at the dealership while they are going to school right down the street.

They also have a auto mechanic curriculum that graduates are in high demand. With the same work and school at the same time.

Plus this fall they started a program for air traffic controllers.
The FAA center for the NE is here in Nashua.
So, the CC program is hooked up with them on internships.


31 posted on 09/27/2025 4:31:20 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: MNDude

Hey, by serving all that fast food, those people in health care will have a steady flow of patients. That’s the beauty of it. Everybody gets work.


32 posted on 09/27/2025 4:32:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Doctor Congo

Should have been named “D Style”


33 posted on 09/27/2025 4:37:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ansel12

It is weird and I have NEVER heard of it.


34 posted on 09/27/2025 4:39:01 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Auto body will go away because self-driving cars will never get in collisions.

Honestly, I don’t know whether to add a “/s” tag or not.


35 posted on 09/27/2025 4:43:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Great...nobody makes anything but we all provide health care to each other. Sounds like a real robust economy.

It will be just like the villages in which the Care Bears or Tele Tubbies live. The kind of economy that could win Friedman a Nobel Prize.

36 posted on 09/27/2025 4:44:07 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We will import Filipino nurses.


37 posted on 09/27/2025 4:46:46 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

beware or ‘experts’ funneling people into specific careers. i remember the big guidance counselor scam of the 70s. high schoolers were told be just about every ‘expert’ that there would be a shortage in guidance counselors (gc), and steered students into seeking gc degrees. result was a double whammy - in 4 years there was a glut in gc degree earners seeking careers, and the economy tanked, leaving localities forced to cut costs, and school costs. guess which jobs got hit the hardest. so all these kids who got gc degrees ended up competing for fewer and fewer positions against people with experience. again - listen to the ‘experts; at your own risk


38 posted on 09/27/2025 4:51:19 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: central_va

Commission is common in the repair plumbing world and so is keeping track of sales on a board back at the office.

If a plumber is going out on service calls and not making them profitable, then he gets fired, it is too expensive to win a new customer and then have some slug go out there and walk out with a simple service call and nothing really done, plumbers have to communicate with the customer, win the customer, take repairs to their full level of quality, and make sales.

Much work is found by simply asking the customer about other plumbing issues in their home after the initial work is done, perhaps the customer is curious about new products he’s heard about or has noticed something about his old water heater or whatever that he would like you to look at since you are already here, perhaps the plumber noticed that dripping hose bibb by the drive way, or that the water pressure seemed high when he flushed the toilet or turned on the tub.


39 posted on 09/27/2025 4:53:04 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Wow. turd chasers do such interesting work! So complicated.


40 posted on 09/27/2025 4:55:03 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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