Jobs of the future

[Stu]

Seth Godin has an interesting article on Jobs of the Future and I wrote a bit on it as well but it really got me thinking about the idea of a knowledge economy and what the hot jobs would be in an economy like that.

Seth suggested online community manager in his article and I think he's absolutely right, and blogger has got to be right up there in jobs of the future, but what else?

What are the hot jobs of the future going to be?

[JimC]

I don't know about a pure knowledge economy. There will always be a massive amount of dirty jobs that require strong physical labor what even robots couldn't do.

I do see how a lot more technical jobs in the future could arise. I think blogging will remain about the same. It will become so common that people will only be able to make very limited money from it and you would need to produce something amazing for it to even get noticed.

I predict a huge burst of advertising jobs and unethical ways to make/scam money. The amount of money that is made through scamming now days is growing immensely. It will become a popular and common thing... people will be constantly trying to scam money from each other. It will be the new system of employment. Go to school, get a house, scam money, pay taxes etc...

[justfiverules]

Stu,

There's probably always going to be a requirement for sh^t hot project managers - even more so with the cross-cultural, transnational nature of the work changes inspired by always-on broadband internet access going on worldwide (outsourcing, homesourcing, insourcing, offshoring, onshoring

I spent a few hours in the library reading most of Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" and that is an eyeopener on all these little streams of change converging into a river of possibilities - hey, it's metaphor Friday ;-)

[Stu]

Ya definitaly, someones always going to have to do the shitty jobs that no one else wants (I'm a dishwasher at the moment in between school years, but moving up to the salad station soon, thankfully ) but I personally see a lot more oppourtunities opening up for information based jobs in the future.

I see the internet, or at least networking technology, integrating into peoples lives a lot more in the future, and I think that a lot of new job opportunities will be created to support that.