More than 50% of Australian students are training for jobs that will not exist in the future. More than half of students chasing dying careers, report warns - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
What are the Living Careers? The article does not go into what careers ARE going to be around other than engineering. I suspect that many of these "living" careers may not be as glamorous, such as janitor, garbage man, nurse, hotel maid, or social worker. These careers would be difficult or impossible to reliably automate. However, even engineering jobs could one day be automated. As automation proceeds, it will be interesting to see when a breaking point is reached where there will no longer be a financial base to support the automated goods and services since there would be too many penniless unemployed who have been "automated out" of the labor force who could not afford to buy the goods and services. Then as factories and service providers crash and go out of business, their former owners and executives also join the ranks of the poor. An exciting future, isn't it?
If you want to look for a dying career, try finding a cobbler to re-sole a pair of boots or shoes. I found an old Italian guy about 15 years ago with a small shop, and he didn't even have a phone. He was pushing 80 back then, so I think those boots have seen their last re-sole.
I remember a shoe repair place, a little hole in the wall place, being in one of the local malls. It might have been in the Emerald Mall. That's the one in Fall River, right? But you're right, I haven't seen one in a long time. I only found this THE VIRTUAL TRAINING CENTRE FOR SHOE DESIGN (VTC-SHOE): A MULTILATERAL VIRTUAL TRAINING MODEL BASED ON A COMMON CURRICULUM | Nikolaos Bilalis - Academia.edu
Australians do no have to worry much about it. They have the outback; if there is no job...they still have Outback Steakhouse.
For thousands of years, high-quality shoes were expensive, were hard to make, and were crafted individually; since they were expensive, buyers had an incentive to pay someone to repair them (to get as much wear out of them as possible). Those days are gone (for the most part). In the 20th Century, automated mass production of shoes in factories drastically lowered the cost, so now people simply throw them away when they wear out and then buy another inexpensive pair.
