Elevator Operator, Telephone Operator, Pilot, and Air Traffic Controller: Jobs Your Kids Won't Be Doing?

摘要

Sometimes we get so close to things that we fail to perceive the rate of change that engulfs us. The indisputable fact is that things do change and, whether for better or worse, the present and the future differ from the past. The spectrum of job opportunities available for folks coming into the employment pool is a good measure of these changes. Where once there were opportunities for Fireman on a steam locomotive or Typist or Gas Pump Operator or Elevator Operator or [fill in your own example], today's help wanted ads are filled with opportunities for software experts with subspecialties named after coffee [Java] or the guardians of virgins [Unix] or passing grades [C+] orrn............These and lots more point to the migration of jobsrnaway from production and manual labor into the "services" based economy.