Credit: dornob.com, Fast Company
When yours truly was at college, my fellow students were
scrambling for a piece of the hospitality business: from hotel management to
catering, there was not a dearth of aspiring managers and chefs, hopeful that
the booming hospitality business would bring in more than enough to put bread
on the table. And soon, there was the MBA boom. But what does the future hold
for our millennials and the generations that follow?
According to Fast Company’s interview
with TomorrowToday Global’s futurist
Graeme Codrington, most of the much-sought-after jobs today will become
obsolete by 2025, and that ‘nearly 25% of today’s fulltime employees will be
working on demand’, including top-end professionals who are currently hired to
solve critical problems for companies. What that means is that more individuals
will need to learn to market themselves, giving rise to the demand for experts who
have the know-how on self-management, self-promotion, relentless marketing,
administration, and self-development. These professionals, according to
Codrington, are called ‘professional triber’. In addition to personal coaches
like the tribers, professors will likely to be working on demand as a result of
the increased demand for online courses and distant learning.
Not surprisingly, urban farmers will be among the top jobs
of the future, not least because of the global sustainable movement and elevated
environmental awareness, thanks to the revelation of environmental impact from
industrial farming. And that is what leads Codrington to believe that small
artisan farmers will continue to grow in numbers, and companies and individuals
will take up the opportunity to teach and assist amateur urban farmers lead a
healthier and more eco-conscious lifestyle.
Global population ageing has also led Codrington to predict end-of-life
planner, senior carer and remote health care specialists to be among future top
jobs. 3-D printer design specialist, apparently, is somewhere up the top too, but
we’re ambivalent about this, seeing the lukewarm interest the general public
has displayed about this technology so far.
So, what are your predictions for future top jobs? If you
ask us, we reckon environmentalists will really make it into the mainstream.
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