[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What jobs will be big in the future that don...
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Ask HN: What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?
I'm writing a kids' book for my daughter about future jobs. All the
books that she currently has talk only about current jobs (chef,
firefighter, librarian, etc etc). I'm putting together a list of
future jobs that she can think about (space mining engineer, neural
lace technologist, prompt engineer, etc). I'll probably throw some
jobs in the list that exist but are still rapidly growing, like
data scientist. Fun ideas appreciated!
Author : mojoe
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-09-16 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
| Qem wrote:
| Pollinator drone swarm pilot.
| codevark wrote:
| spot5010 wrote:
| Ecogineer - ecology engineer.
| walrus01 wrote:
| 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.
| dustinmoris wrote:
| ffhhj wrote:
| Fluid worker - A family or group of friends will share the same
| profile and take turns to work remotely as a single worker.
| bell-cot wrote:
| 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.)
| Grimburger wrote:
| > colonist
|
| These jobs are not going to be given to anyone but the
| overqualified and irreplaceable anytime soon, a massive failure
| of space programs. Personally think the boring inconsequential
| types who society won't fulminate for years over their loss
| should undertake such risks and them alone. There's more at
| stake than some idiotic bad press here.
|
| > Nanoengineer
|
| Degrees in nanotechnology have been available for 2 decades
| now, it's basically a combination of materials science heavy
| physics and chemistry combined. We also had a bit of biotech
| thrown in, which I think is probably the most exciting future
| of nanotech as it stands today.
| mbaytas wrote:
| Copywriter.
| meiraleal wrote:
| 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.
| tmtvl wrote:
| Flint knapper, fire keeper, and other post-apocalyptic Great
| Reset tasks.
| moron123 wrote:
| AI prompter
| type0 wrote:
| LSD trip guide
| justsayinginnt wrote:
| 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.
| jstarfish wrote:
| Sanitation Engineer.
|
| (In the context of finding innovative ways to recycle garbage for
| rare resources.)
| revolvingocelot wrote:
| Funny way to talk about the noble-yet-maligned trashminer.
| Political correctness gone mad!!
| donutdan4114 wrote:
| 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.
| jmrm wrote:
| > Autopilot Unstucker
|
| I think this could be a job for the same people who work when a
| tree fall in the middle of the road and they remove it.
| passion__desire wrote:
| Experience designer. (for the last one with multimedia
| experiences)
| Buttons840 wrote:
| > 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.
|
| How about "Virtual Non-Romantic Matchmaker". Pair up lonely
| people with similar interests who just want to be friends and
| play games, etc.
|
| Wonder how much of this could be solved by removing the
| automation around matchmaking in online games. I used to find a
| server with a good ping and mods / rules that I liked and then
| I'd usually see the same people day after day, eventually
| people would start saying "hi" to me or laughing at my gameplay
| even though I made minimal effort to connect with them.
| hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
| 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.
| brudgers wrote:
| AI trainer already exists.
|
| They are called "Amazon Mechanical Turks."
|
| The dystopian future is already here. It just isn't evenly
| distributed.
| wwilim wrote:
| 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?
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