I'm a tech worker chud, and as you may know, 99% of tech jobs (and white collar jobs desu) are going to be completely automated in the next decade. At the very least, it will be extremely hard to find a job in my field. So I'm thinking of switching careers.But how the fuck do you even change careers? When I interview in my own field it already goes like this:>Anon, have you worked with technology xyz.123 before?>No, but I worked with technology xyz.234. I can learn what you need in a relatively short time>Sorry chud, you don't have the required experienceSo how am I supposed to switch fields entirely if even staying in my own field is like that?
Tech is uniquely like that because so many people want to work in it and it's really easy to cheat through a CS degree or fake a portfolio.Other jobs really aren't so bad. I was a software engineer for a few years and ended up leaving the industry.You just need to find what skills are transferable, and use your network.I had a family friend introduce me to the owner of a manufacturing company and my problem solving knowledge from debugging and ability to design systems impressed them enough to give me a QA engineer position even though I have little experience with mechanical engineering or anything like that.Unless you want to be a doctor or lawyer or something else that needs a hard certification you probably don't even need to go back to school.
>>34854266I used to see a therapist who was in her 50s. She worked with people like you and me who are high performers or high achievers who lose interest and burn out. She used to be a VP at some finance company and had a near death experience that made her realize she was wasting her time and went back to school in her 40s to become a therapist. It's never too late dawg you just need to start moving.
>>34854266You need a clear picture of the job you want to do.Experience is enough to get your foot on the door, next you network by calling and mailing HR depts for referrals until you hit someone who actually needs you.It shouldn't be hard to move starting from CS, CS are corporate jobs so you ought to know how a business is run and anyone will hire you for any management position as long as you learn the trade. Lawyer is also a kind of jack of all trades.If you had started on medicine, you would have zero transferable skills, and to pitch a career change you'd have to do a masters within the industry to get a less clinical job. People skills are not gonna be automated by AI ever, scammer will only get more specialized as a profession. Trade jobs are more likely to be kinked by robotics, though robotics will be limited by costs of materials or something.
>>34854266My gf was a biology/neuroscience research scientist who mastered out of her PhD because she just didn't want to do it anymore. She couldn't get a job that wasn't just research work she wasn't interested in anymore with her experience. She is almost 30 and is going back to school to be a nurse. She was really nervous and embarrassed about failing in her career. Nobody else sees it that way, though. She shadowed some nurses at a local hospital and they all basically told her her science knowledge would be a huge asset in the medical field, and her family and I are all supportive of her change too.She actually wanted to go into sonography but I convinced her not to since AI is getting good enough to read X-rays better than humans. Automation is a real concern, but there are still plenty of jobs where a human is needed.
>>34854278Yeah tech interview processes are completely broken. My problem is that my "network" is pretty small, and it's mostly other people in tech + my parents basically. So my opportunities on that front are pretty limited.>Unless you want to be a doctor or lawyer or something else that needs a hard certification you probably don't even need to go back to school.This is probably right too, but I just don't know how to get to another field without going back to school. At the very least, if you are fresh out of uni, paradoxically, you have way more opportunities and hiring managers are way more tolerant of inexperience.I was thinking of going back to uni to do electrical engineering (since I could get away with skipping a few exams due to my previous degree), but the very though of going back to uni makes me want to kms, but I'll do it if I must.
>>34854314>Go to research school>"WTF man, why am I only getting research offers?"Her science knowledge has zero impact in the medical field. Scientists like her provide the guidelines that nurses and doctors obligatorily follow as part of the medicolegal industry. >sonographyIt's actually a good choice for a technical job, you don't wipe shit that way. AI will never be legally liable so the "Expert" roles will never disappear.Nigga you have to think about the worker's impact in the industry, not whether the job is useful.
>>34854348Don't get a new major nigga, get a masters if you must. Your "nepowork" is small but a network is just calling random people and asking for referrals.
>>34854354Yeah you're right she should have just kept doing stuff that didn't pay well or make her happy because of the sunk cost of her degree.You're also completely right that automation won't replace experts or even reduce the number of openings at all. I've never heard of a company reducing headcount to save money.You're also dead on that laws on AI will never change at all, that never happens for a developing technology and never will.I'll tell her to drop out of her nursing program since you've convinced me so well, thanks anon.
>>34854361>Don't get a new major nigga, get a masters if you must. It would be just a masters, yes.>Your "nepowork" is small but a network is just calling random people and asking for referrals.How does that even work? You just go on LinkedIn and spamming people?
>>34854390Unironically yeah. I had an undergrad student at my alma mater that I'd never met reach out to me. I talked to him on the phone and gave him some advice, and he seemed smart enough so I recommended him for an internship at my company and he ended up getting it.
>>34854383Yeah, you can be an asshole and disregard everything I said as shittalk. Clinical work is shit. It's a shit lifestyle, your gf will ride a train of dicks behind your back, will suffer a shit ton of abuse and workplace politics bullshit. I wouldn't recommend anyone but the most poorshit to do that blue collar shit, and that includes becoming a doctor. You can only thrive in those fields if you have a degree of psychopathy to dismiss the suffering, to enforce hierarchy and to whitstand the physical wear of irregular sleep.And you have a wrong scope about the role of AI. Yeah it's a new tool, but someone will always be there performing the procedure. Companies will lobby to never be responsibilized by AI conclusions (AI can make mistakes, remember?), It will always be a human who takes the blame for it. As I said, yeah it's a good job. Performing audiometry is the same, you just plot a graph. Performing nerve conduction tests the same, they're not big science, yet only experts are allowed to perform them I recommend physiotherapy as a more active kind of work with patient interaction.Anyways, whatever suits her best. All I'm telling you is I'd rather not do clinic work ever again. If her dream is to become an 80h workweek maid who gives injections, she should pursue it.
>>34854348>>34854266SUNY Maritime and I think Texas Maritime have master's degree programs to become a Third Mate in two years. Assuming you're in the United States, that is. Loans would easily be paid off in a couple years of sailing if this interests you. Not the best job for a family man but a great job for a traveller.
apply for jobs.thats literally it.i went into HGV driving with absloutely no relevant experience by just applying forbl a trainee vacancy and got it.
>>34854266>as you may know, 99% of tech jobs (and white collar jobs desu) are going to be completely automated in the next decade.This is not even remotely true. Tech jobs are going to shrink, but nowhere near the level you claim.
