dahmers love zombie: Great. So the choice is to get massively overworked, shiat on by doctors and patients, and blamed if anything goes wrong,
or
have administrators, teachers, parents, students, and Republicans shiat all over you, and have politicians cut your salary and benefits and use you as examples of "what's wrong with government in America",
or
earn a buck over minimum wage, bust your ass, get no benefits, get fired if you grab a couple of fries, and if Fark is any guide, get smacked around on a regular basis by drunk fat women until you have to beat their asses with a pipe.

You want a REAL career in 2020? Geriatric tattoo removal technician.

None of that will have you farting through silk. Sex worker is the only sure thing.

A: What are three jobs where people shiat on you regularly? I'll take Potent Potables for $300, Alex.

cretinbob: There are too many nurses

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Mugato: Who didn't know that? All the baby boomers are starting to die off.

not everyone is born with the knowledge of life already in their brain. you must be unique.

/baby boomers just began retirement what, one year ago? you really are bright.

I'd rather not have a job that involves human shiat or other peoples' body fluids.

/What the fark happened to this country?
//What. The. Fark.

Teachers- Not hiring. Plus a general decline in number of children.

Nurses- They hire heavily from overseas now. Plus they are cranking out nurses now in our vast higher education industry. Wages and benefits will only go down for nurses as union continue to kick neutered in this country.

Fast food- The next brave frontier for automation in this country. You best believe they are making a robot that can flip burgers, put in fries, and serve coke.

//I'm becoming a pimp. Can't automate and outsource a pimp.

Thank goodness I work for the federal government (not as a mail carrier). My job probably won't be going anywhere. I refuse to stick needles into anyone, listen to the constant whining of children or parents, or cook on a regular basis for anyone I'm not related to by blood or marriage.

I'm going for my social work degree, steer my way into being a parole officer. There will always be crime and dumbasses. But there's a lot of work to do.

2003: We'll always need teachers!
2007: We can't afford to hire/pay teachers, massive layoffs

2008: We'll always need nurses!
2011: We can't afford to hire nurses!

2020: ??

Just don't do whatever they HS guidance teacher is telling EVERYBODY they should do.

Scamming old people out of money strangely absent

TheOther: None of that will have you farting through silk. Sex worker is the only sure thing.

Ah, but's that's really more of a labor of love.

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Wayne 985: Franco: //I'm becoming a pimp. Can't automate and outsource a pimp.

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What now, smart guy?

Fight in the gutter for scraps of food from Mitt Romney's garbage can. You know, the safety net.

My girlfriend is going into geriatrics. Particularly to design exercise programs to keep old people fit and mobile as they age. I think shes going to be doing alright in the coming years.

Franco: //I'm becoming a pimp. Can't automate and outsource a pimp.

craig's list?

Want a job in 2020? Clean up after your betters and/or inferiors.

Be a proctologist. Smart phones combined with fat people that already spend too much time on the schitter will take its toll on a whole lotta * s.

Hey! My food science degree will pay off! Whew

I'm surprised that retail sales made the list when everything is going towards online shopping. Am I missing something?

And they said a liberal arts degree was worthless.

None of these jobs are going to pay much more than minimum wage, so we have an impoverished hand-to-mouth society on the way. Except for the 1% who started off with all the money. Lovely.

And I can't imaging teaching becoming a growth industry. I'm taking some online classes now, and there's almost no interaction with a teacher. The books and tests are all software. All the teacher does is plug the test results into the gradebook.

HotIgneous Intruder: I'd rather not have a job that involves human shiat or other peoples' body fluids.

/What the fark happened to this country?
//What. The. Fark.

Same thing that happened to mine. If it moved, we outsourced it. We declared ourselves a service economy but nobody thought about WHAT we were servicing or how we could service it long term. Then all manner of crap happens and we get this nice long, double dip (thank you Goldman & Sach's for fudging Greece's books) recession and depression. It'd be easy to hunker down, work our way out of it...

EXCEPT WE DON'T FARKING MAKE ANYTHING ANY MORE. And if we did, we now have two generations of people with their heads so far up their own asses that a grunt job like 'Bus driver' (that pays £17k - £20k minimum) can't get anyone to apply for it, except those from Poland. No no. Can't do something like that.

I've a 25 year old 'friend'. Left school with 3 GCSE's, no career, no work history. Wants to play in IT at my level. I'm a farking AIX admin. I'll leave some other Brit to explain exactly how farked they are with 3 GCSE's... I'm too pissed.

"Hold me off, Gerry, this the hot junk they say killed a brother on the east side."

Wayne 985: The death of our manufacturing industry and a rapidly expanding group of old people.

"Death" may be a wee bit of an exaggeration. The U.S. still has the largest manufacturing output of any nation in the world. And it hasn't declined any in 110 years, though the rate of growth has lessened in the past decade, it is still positive growth, not negative. The U.S. still outputs 20% of the manufacturing capacity of the entire world. China has recently come close to catching up, or may surpass the U.S. in output soon, but that doesn't mean the U.S. growth has declined, it means China's growth has been nothing short of explosive.

Though it is true that with ever increasing automation manufacturing jobs don't increase as much as manufacturing output does. Perhaps that is what you are lamenting.

I disagree on the cashier and fast food prep. There are a number of automated checkout systems currently under development. You may have one person overseeing 15 or 20 stations in the near future.

The same thing with food prep. It is already happening in drink dispensing. Automation will cut the number of people behind the counter.

Damnaged: Registered Nurses
Retail Salespersons
Home Health Aides
Personal Care Aides
Office Clerks, General (maybe)
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Customer Service Representatives
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Postsecondary Teachers
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
Childcare Workers
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (most of these jobs exist to conform to some kind of government compliance)
Cashiers
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

Great, those six are the only ones that actually take part in the production and distribution of some actual good. And we wonder why there's a huge export deficit and why our economy is collapsing.

And retail is farking worthless these days, unless you happen to find a small business where the owner isn't an idiot. So many retail jobs opening in small towns now are large chains where you the pay-to-bullshiat ratio is off the charts.

The sad thing is, talk to your grandparents about people who worked retail in the 30s-60s. Back then, a store paid a decent wage you could live off of - you just had to know your product. But I guess wage repression and wanting that extra 0.3% of profit margin has driven places like Wal-Mart, Gamestop, and Best Buy to squeeze blood from a stone.