What does the future hold for employment, and how people work? Looking at the grand scheme of things, it may seem that economic recessions have crushed the employment rate across the world. What if we told you something different is under construction. Job options aren't disappearing, they're just moving to a different platform! This should not come as a shock to the younger generations today, but unfortunately for those who were used to the old days, where manufacturing and hard labor industries spelled job security, may be pretty frustrated with the economy today. You're still skeptical, huh? Well, take these industries into consideration:
Top Ten Print Media Magazines have lost ad page revenue as much as over 16% in the past three years
CD music album sales drop an additional 12.8% in 2012 alone, interestingly vinyl was up over 17%, but digital sales are gaining momentum, with 37% of all album sales
Manufacturing jobs have been thinning out due to the rise of technological advances in machinery
Rise and fall of video rental stores
Retail sales moving online, with the most popular reasons being: #3. Easier to Compare Prices #2. More Variety #1. Saves Time
Just a little extra fact about retail, the self-checkout stations are becoming popular in stores, and this trend has already brought a huge decline in traditional cashier jobs. Fret not though, because this does not spell doom and gloom for those who are willing to adapt with the times, and continue to learn.
If You Want To Work You Can't Go Wrong With a Trade
For those who are not into this whole informational age mumbo jumbo, they will adapt slowly but surely and without even realizing it. When it comes to working though, there will always be individuals that would rather get their hands dirty than sit behind a desk, and as long as there are human beings on earth there will always be a need for physical delivery of food shelter, water, and well-being. Online retail is a platform for people to shop from anywhere in the world, but who will deliver those tangible items that are purchased? Post office jobs, courier jobs, transportation will continue to exist. Unless there is a way to create a digital toilet for people to upload your know what to a digital pollution facility there will always be a need for plumbers and those alike. Is that virtual home you built in Second Life, going to keep your family warm? Probably not, and that's why home development jobs like carpenters and handyman contractors may evolve, but are not going anywhere. Learning how to repair today's "tech toys", and latest gadgets and machines will always have a market. Probably the number one industry on the rise is healthcare. There is an increasing need for individuals in the medical field due to many baby boomers hitting a retirement age, and social security moving towards bankruptcy.
What Work Looks Like For Most In the Near Future
You wake up, and walk into your kitchen area to find the coffee is hot and already brewed to perfection. You check your phone to see your accounts have been paid for the previous day's work/projects. You hop onto your internet device (various platforms exist), and see what's going on with orders, clients, gigs, or assignments. You "punch in", and begin moving digital data from point A to point B, creating digital property to be set inside a digital machine that delivers data to customers, and businesses, and/or sharing data with clients/customers/co-workers via voice/video. After working you log off (punch out). Not too complicated for those who are willing to learn, and the bright side is that this lifestyle will enable people to spend more time at home with family and the opportunity to create more time for hobbies. Many companies are already offering work from home opportunities.
The Race Among Population, Technology & Education
The race is on between the ever growing population's job demands, the advancement in technology to sustain the population with new innovations that bring new opportunities, and the educational system that keeps people up to speed. Survival of the fittest in today's informational age means that one who is intellectually fit is just as important for survival, as one who was physically fit over 30 years ago during the industrial age. There will always be a need for individuals, skilled in trades, to get their hands dirty in a physically and technologically evolving world. Those who want to fit in with the changes will have an open mind to receive information from nontraditional sources, as new and experimental ways of receiving education will begin to emerge. Understand that the jobs aren't disappearing but rather, like our way of life, they are just evolving.
CD music album sales drop an additional 12.8% in 2012 alone, interestingly vinyl was up over 17%, but digital sales are gaining momentum, with 37% of all album sales
Manufacturing jobs have been thinning out due to the rise of technological advances in machinery
Rise and fall of video rental stores
Retail sales moving online, with the most popular reasons being: #3. Easier to Compare Prices #2. More Variety #1. Saves Time
Just a little extra fact about retail, the self-checkout stations are becoming popular in stores, and this trend has already brought a huge decline in traditional cashier jobs. Fret not though, because this does not spell doom and gloom for those who are willing to adapt with the times, and continue to learn.
If You Want To Work You Can't Go Wrong With a Trade
For those who are not into this whole informational age mumbo jumbo, they will adapt slowly but surely and without even realizing it. When it comes to working though, there will always be individuals that would rather get their hands dirty than sit behind a desk, and as long as there are human beings on earth there will always be a need for physical delivery of food shelter, water, and well-being. Online retail is a platform for people to shop from anywhere in the world, but who will deliver those tangible items that are purchased? Post office jobs, courier jobs, transportation will continue to exist. Unless there is a way to create a digital toilet for people to upload your know what to a digital pollution facility there will always be a need for plumbers and those alike. Is that virtual home you built in Second Life, going to keep your family warm? Probably not, and that's why home development jobs like carpenters and handyman contractors may evolve, but are not going anywhere. Learning how to repair today's "tech toys", and latest gadgets and machines will always have a market. Probably the number one industry on the rise is healthcare. There is an increasing need for individuals in the medical field due to many baby boomers hitting a retirement age, and social security moving towards bankruptcy.
What Work Looks Like For Most In the Near Future
You wake up, and walk into your kitchen area to find the coffee is hot and already brewed to perfection. You check your phone to see your accounts have been paid for the previous day's work/projects. You hop onto your internet device (various platforms exist), and see what's going on with orders, clients, gigs, or assignments. You "punch in", and begin moving digital data from point A to point B, creating digital property to be set inside a digital machine that delivers data to customers, and businesses, and/or sharing data with clients/customers/co-workers via voice/video. After working you log off (punch out). Not too complicated for those who are willing to learn, and the bright side is that this lifestyle will enable people to spend more time at home with family and the opportunity to create more time for hobbies. Many companies are already offering work from home opportunities.
The Race Among Population, Technology & Education
The race is on between the ever growing population's job demands, the advancement in technology to sustain the population with new innovations that bring new opportunities, and the educational system that keeps people up to speed. Survival of the fittest in today's informational age means that one who is intellectually fit is just as important for survival, as one who was physically fit over 30 years ago during the industrial age. There will always be a need for individuals, skilled in trades, to get their hands dirty in a physically and technologically evolving world. Those who want to fit in with the changes will have an open mind to receive information from nontraditional sources, as new and experimental ways of receiving education will begin to emerge. Understand that the jobs aren't disappearing but rather, like our way of life, they are just evolving.
