The impact of AI on jobs

[Axtremus]

Plumbing school Escalator and elevator tech training FTW!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/09/high-paying-jobs-no-college-degree/87128956007/

"Blue collar is in. 10 high-paying jobs that don't require a degree."

[LuFins Dad]

That’s as startling of news as saying it gets darker earlier in November… Stunning! We had no idea! It’s only been brought up 2345 times on this forum.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah but I have a fully funded 529 so I might as well send him to college.

[Mik]

It doesn’t mean higher education is obsolete. It just means one should have a practical focus to their chosen course of study.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The impact of AI on jobs:

It doesn’t mean higher education is obsolete. It just means one should have a practical focus to their chosen course of study.

What Mik said. Luke picked anesthesia because there’s still going to need to be a hands on element to it, even if it’s just monitoring the tech, and being the human comgorting figure for the patient..:

[Mik]

Learn to code using AI...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-brain-founder-andrew-ng-says-everyone-should-still-learn-to-code-but-not-the-old-way/ar-AA1QbYnq

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in The impact of AI on jobs:

Learn to code using AI...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-brain-founder-andrew-ng-says-everyone-should-still-learn-to-code-but-not-the-old-way/ar-AA1QbYnq

The people giving out this kind advice always seem to assume that everybody can do this stuff, as well as having the technology access and motivation.

[89th]

Even I’m surprised at how fast software developers I work with have adopted AI to jump start their projects. It’s remarkable. So I am remarking.

[Mik]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The impact of AI on jobs:

@Mik said in The impact of AI on jobs:

Learn to code using AI...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-brain-founder-andrew-ng-says-everyone-should-still-learn-to-code-but-not-the-old-way/ar-AA1QbYnq

The people giving out this kind advice always seem to assume that everybody can do this stuff, as well as having the technology access and motivation.

I think pretty much any reasonably intelligent person can.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

By the way I put this in the pinned threads on the off chance this is going to be a relevant topic of discussion over time.

[89th]

AI is a supersonic tsunami, as Elon says.