[quote=no_such_reality][quote=CDMA ENG]
A lot. No one assumes a “George Jetson” future where a machine does one hundered percent of the work. It has been explained, multiple times, why there is will a huge reduction in need for physical, and some intellectual, labor.[/quote]
I think a lot of intellectual jobs, such as Software Developers, are beginning the winter of their discontent and looking at a future that manufacturing was looking at starting in the late 1970s.
One last attempt at prospective. We’ve talked oil, there’s a boatload of good paying jobs in the Dakota oil fields.
Since 2007, the Bakken Oil Formation counties have experienced explosive growth and current have 3% unemployment. Impressive, be flexible. Go where the jobs are.
Now reality. From 2007-2011, all industries in those counties added 27,954 jobs. Twenty seven thousand jobs. Overall North Dakota employment grew about 30,000 jobs since 2007. A part of the Bakken Formation is in Montana but Montana has actually lost employment since 2007 in spite of oil field work.
Why is that important? Perspective. San Diego City has 56,160 people currently unemployed looking for work. A little over twice ALL the jobs created with the oil boom in the Bakken Field.
San Diego county, has 125,860 people unemployed and looking for work. That 4.5X all the jobs, across industries created in the Bakken field boom.
Finally, in that same time period, San Diego City grew a net 40,000 people.[/quote]
Concur with the software developer remark… and would even expand that to engineering in general. I have tools now that made things that it would take me days to do mere hours…
We are all headed towards obscelences… Just some more quickly than others…
I would say “F” it and become a wine maker but more and more that is even automated… Including Napa..
