The days of the higher education scam are numbered.
A recent survey by Microsoft identified 40 knowledge-based jobs at risk of replacement by Artificial Intelligence. So much for borrowing many thousands to go to “uni.”
Instead young people should consider skilled manual work and personal services. This will be the age of the toolbelt-wearing “husky” and the massage therapist.
Just imagine being able to earn money straight out of school, debt-free, and to start a family in your twenties!
All that remains is to make housing affordable somehow.
Here are some jobs that are thought likely to survive, some better paid than others:
Bridge and lock tenders
Car glass installers/repairers
Cement masons and concrete finishers
Dishwashers
Dredge operators
Embalmers
Eye health technician
Firefighter supervisors
Floor sanders and finishers
Foundry mold and coremakers
Gas compressor/pumping station operator
Hazardous materials removal workers
Highway maintenance workers
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Logging equipment operators
Machine feeders and offbearers
Maids/cleaners
Massage therapists
Medical equipment preparers
Motorboat operators
Nursing assistants
Oil and Gas labourer
Oral and facial surgeons
Orderlies
Packaging and filling machine operators
Painter/Plasterer assistants
Paving/surfacing/tamping
Phlebotomists
Pile driver operators
Plant and system operators
Production worker assistants
Prosthodontists
Railway laying and maintenance
Roofer assistants
Roofers
Ship engineers
Surgical assistants
Tire builders
Tire repairers/changers
Water treatment plant operator
