[quote=no_such_reality][quote=flu]Side jobs are created from change and engineering. Adapt or die. It’s that simple.

You’ll still need attorneys, accountants, people in marketing, sales, etc. It’s not really going to be any different.[/quote]

Therein is where you are wrong.

Technology is already making all but the highest functions in all of those roles redundant.

Technology is taking Pareto principle to the extreme. It’s replacing the 80% that consumes your time in the higher functions and replaces it. Basically augmenting one to do the prior job of 5 or 10 in the higher rules and flat out eliminating the junior roles.

RNs? Yep, them too. You’ll see greater portions of their role augmented with technology and then supplemented with more orderlies.

As you said, creativity is the solution. If you create you’re employable. But let’s be honest, what percentage of the current workforce, really creates? 1%? Not the 1% with money, just 1%. Not the 10% deciding what to do, not the 15% figuring out how to do what someone else has decided needs to be done, but actually, create, with brain power…

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Example:
Being a good software “programmer” is labor….Easily replaceable if not now in the distant future
Coming up with a solution to problems goes beyond simple if..then…else.
If things were so easy, companies like google wouldn’t employ so many thinkers…[/quote]

All of those are replaceable. Creating isn’t problem solving, it’s knowing what problem needs to be solved. Many of those google employees are just good software “programmer”. Computers are becoming increasingly good at problem solving. Defining the problem, not so much.

If your role is figuring out “how to do X”, you’re replaceable. If your role is figuring out what “X” is, you’re maybe not.[/quote]

I disagree. Ideas are a dime a dozen. The how (execution) is what always trips people/companies up…