That's why this is one of my favorite graphs.
it's about learning how to archive and retrieve information in a cogent, coherent, and searchable manner.
Biology degree? Worthless. Physics? Slightly less worthless? Math? Only if you wanna be a teacher. Chemistry? Should have gone into petroleum engineering. STEM is a myth, there's only one field that matters, and that's programming. Not even computer science, just programming and software engineering.
Several people I know all their children are going to college to get "worthless degrees"
My theory is most people don't like school which I understand, and so they are being forced into college because its the thing to do. They will choose the path of least resistance, they figure I will get my degree but hell if I am gonna bust my ass for 4 years getting it.
The whole 100% of young adults need to go to college or else needs to end. We need to get back basics.
The girl in the video was upset because "she did what she was supposed to do" Obviously she was made to go to college right after high school and I suspect she tried to take the past of least resistance.
You can't use software to commoditize things where the constraint is that a live person does it because the law says a person has to do it. Low value-add bullshit legal work perhaps, but you can't automate a corporate counsel giving a professional legal opinion for example.
Until there's an advancement in AI, humans will still need to do the analysis work. Unless you're one of those folks that thinks we can just Monte Carlo simulation the best solution somehow, companies are way too risk adverse to leave the final business decision to machines.
Have you actually worked with principals doing blue sky work where the objective (and sometimes even the problem space) hasn't been defined yet? You never, ever get something packaged so neatly that you can simply type in a search string to Google and have it spit out a result. Most of the time what you get asked about is barely a concept, much less something that an automated tool can do something with. Hell, most of the time when we start getting doing research the principals can barely articulate what their business need is. I can't tell you the number of times where I've been told "just build me something cool" or "how can I tell you what I need before I have the tool to start formulating my concept?"
Really?
Someone should tell the financial world that their nanosecond trades aren't as good as a stock broker...
That's why this is one of my favorite graphs.
Yeah, because every business decision is like looking for a trade to front run and arbitraging between markets. You wake me up when you can automate more typical high level business guidance like "improve our internal controls while not reducing customer satisfaction metrics." We'll probably all be long dead before computers can autonomously handle anything but the stupidest tasks where the business rules could be written by a high school student. Until then you're simply front-end loading the work to the planning and analysis stage so that it can hopefully be done in automation in business-as-usual where you'll save time from having peons do repetitive crap work. To save ten peon FTE positions you'll need to hire a business process manager who costs five times as much and needs a staff of programmers, business analysts, and project managers to support her.
Source? That sounds bs-ey, especially the vacancies number
What percentage of jobs are you talking about? How many jobs are TRULY creative?
You are so ridiculously short-sighted it's hard to respond.
In the end they will all be creative else they have no point. Your complaints about other work not being value add doesn't make me "short sighted," it means you are trying to solve the wrong problem. Again.
Some of us believe a career is more important than just a paycheck.
Jesus H Christ, not this shit again. 95% of Americans do jobs that will be replaced by "intelligent enough" computers and robots. If you believe that's not a problem for our current economic system, then you're simply an idiot.
I know about a about a dozen people with graphics design degrees who never worked a day in their field. A couple of them that are working in graphic design were forced to take jobs that pay poorly and that they absolutely hate. One is working for a Christian magazine and I think he will one day snap and slaughter everyone in the office.
Even the teaching field which was considered a "safe career" has taken a beating in recent years. At least in NJ we have seen teacher lay offs and the pension debacle with governor Christie.You can lambaste her for the degree choice, but there are very few "safe" choices any more. Accounting/Tax work, Finance, IT/Programming, R&D... you name it. They're all being outsourced to India, the Philippines, China and others. Seems like if you're not actually getting your hands dirty in a medical job working directly with patient care the future can be pretty iffy.
You asked for a free market, you got a free market.