Could you imagine as a kid that driverless cars and drone parcel delivery would actually exist when you grow up? Yet, in order to get more room for the new, the old sometimes has to leave.
Here are 10 jobs that are unlikely to exist in 2030. Instead of any of these specialties, it is better to choose one of the most demanded professions of the future.
10. Librarians
Although there will always be paper books in the world - regardless of the success of their electronic copies - librarians who catalog them can already be classified as an “endangered species” of specialties.
Many public libraries are struggling to stay open due to funding cuts, and academic institutions have long begun to digitize their texts for easier storage and retrieval.
While expanded access to literature is good, it is sad to see libraries and their useful and knowledgeable curators fading away.
9. Cashiers in supermarkets
In the past few years, there has been more and more talk about the reality of a cashless society, in which contactless payments are most widespread.
While not all countries are ready for this innovation, and many people choose to continue to use cash to better track their spending, one thing is for sure: self-checkouts are growing every year. According to the forecast of the British analytical company RBR, made back in 2016, their number in the world will reach 325 thousand by 2021.
Checkouts like these are already commonplace in many large supermarkets and popular fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, which means that the cashier profession is becoming unpopular.
8. Postmen
Although couriers will continue to be needed to deliver packages, the work of postmen delivering letters every morning is becoming less and less in demand. This is mainly because the things they deliver are slowly moving into the "virtual realm":
- utility bills can be viewed and paid online,
- information about the arrival of the parcel is displayed in the Russian Post application or similar applications in other countries, there is no need for paper notices,
- people are less likely to send each other paper letters.
7. Stewardesses and flight attendants
Experts predict that by 2022 we will see 7% fewer of these charming ladies (and men) welcoming us aboard air transport. As airlines battle each other to offer more competitive prices and optimize all sorts of costs to maximize profits, a huge number of flight attendant and flight attendant jobs have already dwindled and hiring projections for the next decade are not promising any positive changes.
In addition, most modern aircraft are equipped with safety display screens and advanced automated safety equipment, making the presence of flight attendants an unnecessary luxury.
6. Taxi dispatchers
Due to the growing popularity of applications such as Uber and Yandex.Taxi, along with travel companion services, the taxi dispatcher profession may disappear in the near future.
It will eventually be replaced by even smarter apps that can guide cars where passengers want them.
5. Lumberjacks
The top 5 professions that may disappear by 2030 are opened by a courageous, difficult and, alas, not the most demanded job.
More and more paper products are going digital, and the demand for lumberjack services is projected to decline by 9% by 2022.
The need for deforestation will not disappear, but in the future the human labor of woodcutters may be replaced by more sophisticated and advanced technologies.
4. Bank tellers
How often do you go to the bank to withdraw cash? Probably not very often - and this reduces the need for human cashiers to process transactions at financial institutions.
Consumers are enthusiastic about online banking and mobile banking, and ATMs, which operate 24/7, are very attractive to people whose opening hours prevent them from visiting the bank during traditional opening hours.
3. Secretaries-typists
Yes, there are still people who make a living by typing letters and other documents at the dictation of their superiors. Perhaps the old-fashioned typewriters have replaced modern computers.
However, the profession of secretary typist is rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to innovations such as voice recognition, although they are far from perfect.
2. Mail sorters
Members of this profession sort local and international mail, parcels and parcels, work with conveyor belts and other equipment to process and sort mail and send it along the route.
However, newer automated mail routing systems require less human assistance. The number of mail sorters is steadily declining due to the limited budgets of the postal service and the ever-increasing use of email.
1. Fast food chefs
To keep prices low, the fast food industry is always looking for new and more efficient ways of doing business. Especially when fast food workers demand higher wages. This means that chefs are replaced by machines whenever possible.
And in Singapore a new format of the Chef-in-Box cafe - "VendCafe" has already been successfully tested. Vending machines are installed there, which offer a wide range of dishes according to recipes from different cuisines of the world - from Japanese and Malay to Western and Indian. No cooks or cashiers, no service personnel. Convenient, right?
What to do to avoid becoming a representative of an endangered profession?
A report from tech giant Dell, published back in 2017, claims 85 percent of the jobs that will be available in 2030 haven't even been invented yet, and the tech landscape will go unrecognizable over the next 13 years.
“The pace of change will be so rapid that people will be learning 'right now' using new technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality. The opportunity to gain new knowledge will be more valuable than the knowledge itself, ”says Dell.
Many of the professions that will become unpopular in 10 years will be mutated rather than completely destroyed, and the skills acquired by workers can be transferred to other roles.
Willingness to learn and change occupation will be important attributes of success in the labor market in the near future.
If you want maximum protection from the claws of progress, we recommend starting a career in one of the following 3 groups:
- Creative work - for example, an artist, designer, or architect.Even the most powerful computers cannot and will hardly be able to reproduce true human inspiration in the future.
- Relationship work that requires building and maintaining complex relationships with others. Examples are a doctor, teacher, animator or guide-translator.
- Specialists with technical education - engineers, turners, programmers, automatic line adjusters, auto mechanics, toolmakers, technical analysts, etc.