What are the jobs of the future?

The skills of old may be handy in our future.
Bartering your skills may be the way, farming; hunting; sewing; mechanical maintenance; entertainment and other basic crafts may be in high demand if the shit hits the fan as we near the end of capitalism.

Flying with pigs.

I agree with @Boogabooga1 mainly because I live in a rural area and there are alot of farms here. The biggest event in our town is a cranberry harvest. As for metroplotin city areas, web designers are huge. The only way companies and small buissnesses can really get customers nowadays is through the internet and starting websites can be tricky. For those willing to pay, people make the sites for them. In corporations, they have people hired there full time to keep websites and computer systemms working and up to date.

@TheIntern55 I don’t see web design as a trending job for the future. Web design and promotion isn’t beyond the average IQ. And very soon it is going to seem so easy.
As all the sheep flock to the recent PC trend (gold rush springs to mind) its the core skills that will ensure survival & best aide the future.

At some point, people are going to get sick of crappy MDF furniture from Wal Mart and Ikea.

Then, carpentry will be where it’s at. For the small and dwindling number of people who know how to take a few planks and turn it into a dinette set, or take an old, mouldy dinette set and make it look brand new, life will be good.

At least, this is what I hope.

I know that my field (CNC machinist) has a problem that many of the older people are retiring while there are few younger folks replacing them. Many see IT as more profitable or just “cooler” than programming a machine to make stuff. Many more just don’t have the math skills required; you need at least Algebra I (which my school taught in 9th grade), but a lot of people don’t even know that much.

But demand for machinists will rise for reasons other than replacing the old guard. How many things do you have that are injection-molded? Many plastic things are, and guess who makes those molds. How many things do you have that are made of metal? Not all things can be stamped, and most things that are cast require some cleanup. That doesn’t even count those things that require too much precision to be made any way other than machining.

Sure, the average machinist only makes around $39k/yr, but it doesn’t require a college degree, and you are more likely to get a job as the field is less competitive than those like IT where everyone and their goldfish is going after the same position you are.

Installing and maintaining all the observation cameras