Predicting the future in the job market....

Google's newsgroups servers don't get all the posts that I can see on
my ISP's newsgroups servers so I can't respond to severaal specific
posts that I'd normally like to.

One poster (I think "Marc", who alluded to himself being faculty) made
the comment about how impossible it was to predict the future job
markets and thus
washed his hands of the responsibility for passing on the useful
advice one needs today if one is to have a pension and health plan by
the time one reaches retirement age.

On the contrary, I see two extreems in career/job environments: i)
jobs/careers in rapidly and very rapidly evolving methodology (eg.
sci/tech/engineering fields), and ii) jobs/careers in slowly to very
slowly evolving fields (eg. building trades, transportation,
agriculture).

A second issue that is not impossible to predict is age
discrimination. Its there and its more often present in rapidly
evolving job markets (eg. the so called IT fields). Another issue
involves the immigration and offshoring phenomena in business and
corporate infrastructures.

Today's young person would be very well advised to look hard at
educational requirements for the various pursuits and look hard at
where those targets will likely be in one or more decades. So far, the
USA has lost the manufacturing sector, and is in the process of losing
the service sector (to India and China), and the next thing we're
going to have is a post apocalyptic economy. What will its nature be?

Art Soweres

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