I’m kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.
I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.
At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don’t give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn’t slop)
I’m sick of it, I’m sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.
I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?
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Anything that’s done on site or with your hand. Forget about working from home or having your own hours though, most of the benefits you are used to won’t exist and it will be arguably harder work physically depending.
I’d pick something that can’t be automated since that’s also a risk even if it’s not directly AI. That means something to complicated for robots (not much), too big or messy, where it can’t be trusted entirely to robots (high safety like making plane parts) or most likely where robots can’t easily go (house plumbing and electricity for example).
A lot of trades and manual work pay very well but you have to look before hand, it’s definitely not all of them. Cooking jobs for example are pretty safe but don’t ever become a cook lol.
If you have dev experience, I’d go towards micro electronics. It’s too niche for AI to be good at it yet and has the physical part of prototyping and soldering that isn’t easily accessible by AI.
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Airline mechanic. AI is not going anywhere near us and if it does it will be trained on absolute garbage and be wrong 100% of the time.
Being a kindergarten teacher is not really something that AI can help with.
You’re joking me right? I’m pretty sure this is actively happening. they’re going to put the kids in individual tubes with iPads and a toilet
Not my experience, at least not here in Norway – in fact, there’s been a pretty big backlash against the digitalization of childhood in schools and kindergartens, so I’d be very surprised if there’s any increasing pressure on us to use computers at all with the children. A colleague of mine put on some movies a handful of times in December, and even that caused some concerned messages from parents.
Unfortunately the countries with high population and public education being negligible, have really low pay.
I heard Norway and Sweden kindergarten teachers get 120,000 USD ! that sounds great.
hehe, I wish, but no, the starting salary is more like $55 000, increasing to about $65 000 as you get more experience.
oh no. That does sound low. But i do believe if your interest lies in teaching it brings you joy.
Can someone in their late twenties start teaching in nordic schools? Or do they have to begin studying for 2+ diploma courses?
It’s a three year bachelor’s degree to become a kindergarten teacher in Norway. You can work in kindergarten without that education, but then you’ll be more of an assistant and your salary will be even lower.
You’d also have to learn Norwegian, of course, unless you can get a job at one of the very few english-language international kindergartens.
Thank you so much internet friend!
at least not here in Norway
At least part of the world isn’t racing to the bottom
You cant get AI to do physiotherapy. So maybe become a PT assistant.
isn’t safe
Tell me more about … ooh, physiotherapy.
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AI will never be able to throw bricks at cops. Something to consider
Do you get dental?
The settlement money from the city after I get my eyes blown out by “less lethal” rounds tends to cover it.
You’re from Stuttgart
Im not sure if this a meme or an accusation. But I am not, neither the one in Germany or Arkansas.
It just so happened that in Stuttgart there were protests and police in fact did blow one guy’s eye out of the socket in a very similar way you said.
I thought that you’re referring to that.
No :( only vision to ensure good aim
A drone with a cord goes a long way.
live performer in circus will be safe (for some time) seriously, you’ve seen how this works, suddenly creativity can be achieved with little bit of randomness robots which should help us in menial tasks are surprisingly taking over art and creative things i mean it will take a while to fully take over but a lesson learnt is that you just need to throw in huge data to make it look wise and inteligent
My BIL started brewing beer for a local brewery after he retired from the Army.
I work a physical/tactile job in healthcare. My job won’t be in danger until robotics dramatically advance and cheapen. AI could conceptually do my job, but the physicality is missing. A lot of healthcare careers are this way. Not all of them are though, so be wise in your choice!
What about robotics?
Naturally you can ask LeChat and you will probably get a sensible answer ;-) but in general jobs that deal with real people (sales, consulting, project management, politics, …) and real things (e.g. electrician, construction, gardener, creator of beautiful items (furniture, art), mechanic…)
Consulting and Project management are ripe for AI disruption. No way will they be eliminated, but an AI camera tracking the blue collar workers plus a “manager” who is just a data entry clerk, especially when combined with other data sources will remove a massive amount of managing a project.
Consultants and Sales to a large degree are just about listening to clients whine about something and repeating back to management (in a different voice) the same things that their own staff is saying. LLMs are good at being that different voice.
Thanks for adding more perspective. Sure, if you take for instance “sales”, that is a huge category, from people who do telephone sales, to car sales, to software sales, realtors, consulting sales, complex equipment sales… the more complex the product or service on sale is, the less likely it is that the sales person will be replaced by AI, and the more likely it will be that this person will use AI as an assistant. The OP will need to identify that sweet spot, and a good education will be crucial.
I love being a dev. I love being able to build things faster. I love solving an issue. I love working on a great product I believe in. I love working for a company that puts the well-being of its employees above its profits.
Nothing you’ve written is about the impact of “AI” (whatever this means) and it has everything to do with how you decide to work.
And who you go to work for… most of us aren’t so lucky
anything that is not digital/information driven. aka fields involving blue collar work.
For all intents, it seems CAD is good for a while, at least til someone shows me a tool that goes straight from drawing to CAD and CAM paths. At least I’m also hoping myself. Besides, someone has to make those drawings, and for as long as my supervisors boss doesn’t know how even tools wear, I think we’re in the clear for.
