to wit: if it were possible I would put $100k (and I'm Poor so this is a real chunk of change to me) on the line that literally nobody, not a single soul, in this thread will have a kid who actually goes into the trades. even if the parent is totally encouraging there's also societal pressure/influence that naturally pushes kids away from it and they all internalize this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49664012)

There was an article about auto mechanics in the WSJ a few months back. A skilled mechanic with a decade or two of experience who knows how to replace a transmission without reading the manual can absolutely print money. But it is a long, hard slog to get to that point. Mechanics typically get paid by the job, so when it takes you all day to replace a transmission because you have to check the manual after every step, you are earning shit. Plus you usually have to supply your own tools. Most mechanics wash out long before they get to the point where they can earn serious money.

Likewise for most other skilled trades. If you don't believe me, go search for "plumber" or "electrician" on Indeed. Most jobs barely pay more than fast food jobs. If anyone can earn six figures with a couple years of experience as an electrician, fucking everyone would be doing that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49667639)

even if robodocs are the future it'll still be the last job ai obviates thus the safest field to go into rn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663182)

no different than how you'll still need lawyers and bankers for m&a, that's not going away

hell, you'll still need lawyers for your divorce

you'll still want an accountant to do your business taxes

can you explain how medicine is materially different than these other industries? in fact, medicine, unlike those industries has been gutted by private equity and ever lower insurance payouts for treatments, that's only going to get worse no?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663361)

as in the customer experience getting worse? i don’t think that’s the case in law, banking, accounting, consulting, etc.

as in the industry being substantially restructured due to the licensure of a paraprofessional class of service providers? that is unique to medicine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663616)

i thought we were taking blue collar work out of the equation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663387)

anything you could already turn to legalzoom will be turbo fucked because AI can quarterback you through pretty much anything that's just 'paper related' law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663220)

Even as a DefBro, there is a ceiling to how much you can make because you can only try so many cases a year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663294)

Sales. B2B sales in particular.

Top 10% will still do well in most industries. Someone needs to manage the AI.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663308)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663447)

Go into a field that involves some sort of physical element. The kid doesn't need to do physical labor, but a field where there is a real physical element to the work. Moving goods, distributing goods (non-commodity), manufacturing.

Preftige fields like finance and law will only get worse as time goes on (and they are already pretty bad and overstocked with strivers.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663560)

Figure out the best way to use ai to do whatever task you want to do in life.

Meet people actually doing stuff you want to do, figure out how use ai to automate the things they find annoying.

Credentials are mostly done, don’t waste your time with that shit, actually meet people and figure out ways to help them with real life stuff.

Be resourceful, be persistent.

No job or industry is safe, nearly any path is far more accessible though.

Be the knock in the night, don't wait for the knock in the night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49663582)

He’d use agents to generate the variations, test them, analyze results, and iterate. His job was to design the testing framework, analyze the patterns the agents uncovered, and make strategic decisions based on data no human could manually process.

Within six months, his campaigns were outperforming competitors by 40%. Not because he was better at any single task. Because he could operate at a scale that was previously impossible.

This is a pattern that works. Find the constraint in your domain that exists because of human limitations. What doesn’t get done because it takes too long? What questions don’t get asked because analysis is too expensive? What experiments don’t get run because you’d need a team of 20?

Then use agents to remove that constraint, not to speed up your current tasks. To do things that were previously impossible.

Then build expertise in the judgment layer. What experiments should we run? Which patterns matter? What do these results mean for strategy? When should we override the agent’s recommendation?

This isn’t vague strategic thinking. It’s specific, you’re the decision maker orchestrating a capability that didn’t exist before.

You’re not competing with the agent. You’re creating a new capability that requires both you and the agent. You’re not defensible because you’re better at the task. You’re defensible because you’ve built something that only exists with you orchestrating it.

This requires letting go of your identity as “the person who does X.” Marcus doesn’t write copy anymore. That bothered him at first. He liked writing. But he likes being valuable more.

Here’s what you can do this month:

Week one: Identify one thing in your job that you’d do 10x more if it didn’t take so long. Customer research? Competitive analysis? Testing variations? Data modeling?

Week two: Use AI agents to do that thing at 10x volume, even if quality drops to 70%. See what becomes possible.

Week three: Find the patterns. What insights emerge at scale that you’d never see doing it manually? What new questions can you answer?

Week four: Pitch this as a new capability to your boss. Not “I’m more efficient now.” But “We can now do this specific thing we couldn’t do before, which creates this specific business value.”

People who do this aren’t getting squeezed. They’re getting promoted or poached. Because they’ve made themselves the linchpin of a new capability, not the executor of an old task.

One critical caveat, this won’t work forever in its current form. Eventually, agents will get better at orchestration too. But it buys you three to five years. And in that time, you’ll see the next evolution coming.

The meta-skill is this: learning to spot what becomes possible when a constraint disappears, then building your value around that new possibility.

https://newsletter.jantegze.com/p/your-job-isnt-disappearing-its-shrinking?hide_intro_popup=true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49664006)

100% human and will always be about handsome humans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49664708)

Medicine (not primary care/easy stuff though)

Nursing

Police

Marry wealthy

Law if can get into top school (big law juniors are mostly going away but there’s still going to be some high paying legal jobs even if 75% less)

Teacher in blue states

Audit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49665199)

If you don't have money, marry rich then see above.

There's no joy in wage slavery. Spend your days being alive. If you have to work, learn to do something and start your own business as soon as possible. Construction, trade, lawyer, doctor, it's all the same - have your name on the door as soon as you can.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5833616&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49665314)