When choosing a profession for yourself, think about how long you will be in demand in the labor market. Many popular professions can disappear faster than you think. This is a list of ten professions that are likely to disappear in the next 20 years.
10. Taxi driver
You've probably already heard that a skirmish erupted between taxi drivers and private Uber drivers. Now, when almost everyone with their own car can give a ride to another, taxi companies and their employees are no longer needed.
9. Librarian
The library is filled with books and a nostalgic smell of paper. This is the perspective of a romantic person who loves reading. And an integral part of this library is its main employee. Librarians are people who have read a colossal amount of literature in their lives. But lately fewer and fewer people have been looking into the reading rooms. People prefer e-books, which cost less money and resources to produce. The habits of the public have also changed. Due to the abundance of rapidly flashing information scattered across different parts of the Internet, it is difficult for readers to concentrate on one subject for a long time, they want to change their type of activity. These rapid changes suggest that there will be no place for traditional libraries and their ministers in the future.
8. Cashier
The rapid development of technology will allow stores to completely replace cashiers with automatic machines that can calculate the amount of purchases of a visitor. The buyer will simply need to show the barcode of the product to the machine, put it on the scales and pay in cash, by credit card or by phone. This procedure will take much less time and will make the payment procedure easier.
7. Bank employee
A bank clerk's routine is opening accounts and paying checks. With technological advances, it will be easier to do this directly over the internet. In addition, many banks offer to carry out money transactions via a smartphone.
6. Newspaper seller
When was the last time you bought a magazine from a newsstand instead of checking the news on the internet using your device? After all, you can subscribe to the newspaper electronically or receive it by mail instead of queuing up for it every morning.
5. Secretary
The presence of a person who keeps track of papers, appointments and reminds of tasks and appointments has become a privilege in our time that is not available to many. Today, there are many applications that perform all the same functions, so there is no immediate need for the presence of a specially hired staff for this, except in rare cases. Thanks to the Internet, for little money, you can use all the same services that the secretary performs without paying a monthly salary to the employee.
4. Postman
In countries where postal services are actively used, for example, in the USA or Canada, postmen are no longer needed. Now people practically do not write letters on paper. In addition, companies like Amazon are disbanding their ranks of couriers, replacing them with unmanned drones capable of delivering goods from the warehouse directly to the buyer's home.
3. Support operator
When you call the company to inquire about your order, a support worker will answer you. Intelligent automated machines capable of understanding customers now interact with them and connect with the right workers. This method will connect telcos to their customers by phone, while saving millions of dollars in communications costs.
2. An employee of a travel company
Buy a plane ticket, book a hotel room, find help in organizing a tour - all this can now be easily done online. Dozens of platforms and sites will help you buy a ticket, a room, rent a vehicle and organize a tour based on your personal desires and capabilities. In the future, employees of travel companies will disappear as unnecessary.
1. Military pilot
Countries spend a lot of money on military aircraft that do not last long - sometimes before the first battle. And now they will be replaced by drones. According to the American magazine The Economist, radio-controlled aircraft will replace conventional aircraft while maintaining their efficiency.
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