Re: Predicting the future in the job market....

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mystery man) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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.

I doubt if such things, in the tradiitonal sense, will exist in the future,
at least until the penulum has swung back.  One will either have to be
independently wealthy when one retires, or one will be joining me under
a bridge.

> 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),

Which means one slip in predicting what the Next Big Thing will be
and getting trained in it, while doing one's present job, and one's
career, if it can still be called that, is derailed.

> and ii) jobs/careers in slowly to very
> slowly evolving fields (eg. building trades, transportation,
> agriculture).

You left out burger flipping and pizza delivery, the very life-blood
of a post-shrubbery economy. :-)

> 
> 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

Pig farming for methane will be big, according to the Mad Max movies.
That and lawless thuggery.  Sorry, I forgot we already have lawless
thuggery in the form of Wall Street. ;-)

Regards,
Russell