30 Careers Not To Choose If You Want To Have A Job In 5-10 Years, According To These People

I hope it’s influencers.

My friend is an artist. She made a living off commissions on Twitter. That site going to sh**e and the rise of AI has already caused her to lose 80-90% of the commissions she was getting a few years ago. She’s currently working a minimum wager to keep what she can in her account while she figures out what to do.

draggar:

This is one of the saddest parts of AI. We thought AI would take over mundane tasks so we could pursue things like the arts, yet here we are, doing mundane things while the arts are being taken over by AI.
Even our community alerts pages on FB are now adding AI generated images with every post. It's annoying AF 99.99999% of the time.

In the USA?
- Teachers
- Lawyers
- Scientists
- Engineers

Because education, law, and science are suddenly considered anti-American. Without education, everything eventually crumbles.

Even before this Trump administration, Americans have been losing jobs to foreigners that are better educated than us. We’re losing those jobs because Americans just aren’t qualified, simple as that.

At the rate things are going right now, we won’t have any professions left that require a brain.

Any sort of translation work.

jak_hungerford:

My wife is a translator and this is something she is really concerned about. Her projects were cut in half this year compared to 2024.

Teaching. We’re leaving en masse due to low pay and terrible conditions, and it’s only getting worse.

Caspur42:

I live in the south and it’s way worse than people know. We have a teacher on fb who regularly posts things that are clearly not true like 20 million dead from famine in the US during the Great Depression.
The good teachers are fleeing in mass and leaving the state.

I used to do court transciption (not stenography). Basically I download an audio file and type what's spoken in the courtroom verbatim (within style rules). The industry has been trying to implement speech to text software for years but it's been too c**p up until very recently. I've since upskilled to an "editor" where instead of typing manually I correct the generated transcript.

It still struggles with speaker differentiation and formatting but it's improved so drastically within the last 3 years it's only a matter of time until traditional transcriptionists are no longer necessary.

My hope is that car salespeople go extinct. The dealership model is antiquated and unnecessary. There’s no good reason why one can’t buy a car completely electronically. Choose car. Add options. Add to basket. Select financing. Complete purchase.

I don't think wiped out but I do think a lot of digital designers are going to replaced with AI.

chick-with-stick:

My brother was a digital designer for a popular video game. He did this for 20 years. They just let him go as well as a bunch of other designers. S**t sucks. He’s so damn talented.

Anything AI can do.

It will also come as younger people lose.the ability to write, think analytically, etc.

AI will give quick on demand results and answers.

Humans need to reason through something and develop knowledge or expertise.

Easy answers will make humanity dumb.

By the looks of it, being a federal employee.

momasana:

Them, and us who rely on federal funding for our jobs. I'm a research administrator at a university and let's just say that things aren't looking too hot right now.

geekonthemoon:

I've been saying that people used to cozy up to fed govt jobs but if they're no longer secure, people arent going to take them and they're going to have trouble filling the roles with good candidates.
Then!!! We can just hire Elon to do it all with one of his many perfect private companies, right? 😭

Journalist.

I covered the NBA for over a decade, but from 2019 until now — the last five years — I’ve been laid off seven times as companies shift to AI-authored stories. I’ve been offered AI editing roles for half my typical pay which is unsustainable. I know other writers from other fields are probably feel the same squeeze as I am.

My masters in data science feels pretty useless right now. Saturated market, and AI is being programmed to do coding, analyze trends, create other models, and prepare reports.

It’s terrifying but I hope I’m wrong :( Shocked I didn’t see this reply as one of the first comments.

Audiobook Narrators. I am related to one and know several others. Apparently, they've combined existing voices to make different types of AI voice. Feed the text of a book into the AI, wait a bit, and you have an audiobook. It has already caused a significant reduction in the amount of available work.

I am a writer and video producer. I already know people in my profession who have lost jobs. I think, in particular, writing and designing will be going away. “Just use ChatGPT” I hear regularly. The benefit people like isn’t that it’s good. It’s that it’s cheap and done. Glad I’m on the tail end of a long career. Hanging on the last few years…if I can.

Bridal and formal wear stores/stylists. We’re already seeing stores close now at rapid rates. People are buying their wedding dresses and prom/homecoming dresses from SHEIN, Amazon and other cheaper online retailers like Azazie.

Brides still try and book appointments and tell us, oh I have a dress, I just didn’t get the “Say Yes to the Dress” experience, so I want to come in and try stuff on. We can’t compete with a $50 dress, and brides are caring less and less about quality, because “I’m only wearing it for a few hours.” Some bridal shop owners think they can ban together and write their congressional leaders and senators and stop people from buying online, and I said you really can’t. There’s really no way to take back the industry.

We are in the age of fast fashion, and cheap prices. Gone are the days of spending $1500 on a wedding dress and shopping with your mom and waiting 6-9 months for it to come in. It’s not about educating them, and teaching them about quality. It’s a different generation and we either get with the times or we get out.

Customer service + call centers are gonna see a lot of trouble with Agentic AI on the horizon. Not good because that industry employs millions of people across the world.

Estimators. Im in construction. We have apps now that you can upload several pictures of the exterior of your home and it will calculate with acceptable accuracy the materials needed.It also will measure your roof without touching a ladder, measure trim, soffits and siding.It sends you a report with a full list of materials lengths of materials and % of waste. Also does 3d pics of what the hime will look like.Another app takes that info and calculates what the job will cost based on the region and aprox labor cost. This process would take days in the 90s.Complete game changer.

Really hoping to see real estate agents disappear in the near future.

Half_Man1:

I heard an interesting thing that they might!
Commission rates are too high and the market is over saturated with agents. Eventually an online platform is gonna develop to cut them out. Just like how people basically never use travel agents now.
Real estate agents might exist for large or complex sales but their rates aren’t reflecting the competition existing in their sector.

Copywriting.

moal09:

I work in the industry, and a ton of people are being cut for AI even though it sounds like s**t half the time, but it's just good enough that a lot of companies don't care.
Even a lot of the remaining jobs want you to use AI in tandem, so you can pump out more volume faster.

I would have to say traditional local in person bank tellers and walk in banks. I'm already seeing these new type of banks showing up. They look like gas stations without the stores and the gas pumps are video ATMs. To do your banking, you drive up to the ATM, request what service you want and if that service requires a teller, you'll be connected to a call center teller (quite possibly an overseas one or AI). If you need to cash a check or deposit money , you just enter them into the ATM. The downside to these is the massive loss of local teller job. You'll no longer have someone from your community to help you with your banking needs.