Actually I think the more creative jobs are the ones most at risk, the jobs requiring precision, accuracy and answers that must be correct seems to still be ok for now.
But trade jobs seem to be protected for a long time being.
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What are trade jobs
I don't think it will ever be. Even if we lose some jobs, new ones will spring up.
Also, I think the best "strategy" is to work on stuff you find interesting and be willing to adapt, learn, change and improve. And if AI does take your job, your mind(set) will be ready to take on something new. Nothing in life is guaranteed.
Things will change so fast that by the time you learn a new skill, it won't be needed. Already, robots are doing surgery in hospitals.
Anything that helps people accelerate/optimize something they’re already doing will sell. If you can observe where money is flowing and make it flow faster, you will always be able to take a percentage for yourself.
No market is saturated, not even commodities. You just need to offer something that accelerates the flow.
How do you go about figuring out where the money is currently flowing?
It’s flowing everywhere.
Look at your bank statement, what are you spending money on? Look at SEC filings, what are companies spending money on? Look at advertisements, consumer reports, web traffic, social media engagement metrics, government budgets, business foot traffic metrics on google maps. What are people interested in?
Look at the clothes people wear, the Christmas decorations your neighbors have up, the app your coworker is using, the music playing in the grocery store. The food you ate this morning, the candle your wife brought home, the phone case you’re holding, the styling cream you have in your hair.
All of these things are opportunities for a business
In a nutshell: task optimization. It’s why if you have a business idea you should be building it as simply as you possibly can.
I think that as AI takes over more jobs there'll be a a backlash and people will pay extra for personal service. One UK supermarket is already replacing self-service tills with human cashiers.
this comment for the win, it will all circle back to real humans. Those who can will pay for the luxury. It could create a whole new service industry.
Eventually, yes it will. In the first decade or so it will be brutal for many people. Even now, life is pretty bad for many. It will get worse before it gets better. Those that adapt will win. Those that don't will be obliterated. There are many that will just refuse to adapt. You even see that today.
Lol artisanal crafts are also in the cross hairs. AI wins set contests constantly.
As a SaaS owner I need a lot of third party software. See a lot companies offering something that could solve my problem but they don’t sell it right or doesn’t communicate well how it works. Also probably a lot of services I’m looking for that I don’t know that they do exist because simply the owners build the product but don’t try to sell it to nobody.
The tech market has been saturated with companies and products for as long as I've been in the game(decade ish).
But good products that solve user problems always have a space.
Consider the lifecycle of tech. Company A comes out with a great product, people love it, they are acquired by Company B, then they start changing the core product, and people begin to hate it. Company C comes out with a product similar to the original, and people are flocking to it bc Company B's product sucks now.
This will happen with just about every product out there. Like almost no digital product stays around forever sans your big boys (Google/Amazon/Etc.).
AI will expedite this. Lots of the same problems will be solved in different and better ways. Then AI will change, and it'll happen again.
It's just a big cycle. Very little is immune to change forever. Especially technology products.
Aren't all industries saturated?
If you want a side hustle, solve a problem.
Generally speaking, tech problems are hard to solve. They require a ton of money, work, knowledge etc. There's most likely an app or service already out there 100x your size, that you'll never be able to compete with.
Look into reselling IPTV, low barrier to entry, everyone watches tv. Customers are everywhere. Won't go much into it as there's 100 other things you can do, but this is an example.
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