What career advice would you give your high school/college aged kids?
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Date: February 11th, 2026 6:01 PM Author: Twinkling chapel pisswyrm
I got so sick of the "just do trades" people. There is a very good reason that nobody does this, and it has nothing to do with "societal pressure." It's because these jobs are SPS. Yes, once you have a decade or two of experience, you can make a shit ton of money as an electrician or auto mechanic, especially if you are entrepreneurial. But you aren't making the good money until you know what you are doing, and that takes a very long time. In the mean time, you are making around minimum wage crawling around in crawl spaces in extreme heat/cold on nights, weekends, and holidays. If anyone could earn a six figure salary as a mechanic with a six month auto repair course at the community college, don't you think fucking everyone would be doing that?
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Date: February 13th, 2026 12:44 AM Author: Twinkling chapel pisswyrm
It has nothing to do with prestige. Yeah, just save up enough at your minimum wage job to start a business at age 25. And that ignores the fact that most blue collar trade people still don't know shit at age 25.
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.
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Date: February 11th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: carmine parlor elastic band
to the extent that medicine is shielded from ai it's all higher level surgeon work or just taking care of olds
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?
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Date: February 11th, 2026 2:52 PM Author: domesticated tattoo indian lodge
as in the practice of the profession getting worse? i would agree that’s happened across the board but it’s certainly arguable that the decline has been steeper in medicine.
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.
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Date: February 11th, 2026 12:40 PM Author: geriatric vivacious community account juggernaut
prosecution / defense, as the economy falls crime will increase
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
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Date: February 11th, 2026 1:14 PM Author: Misanthropic famous landscape painting
Robotics. AI + robotics is the engineering wave of the future.
Sales. B2B sales in particular.
Top 10% will still do well in most industries. Someone needs to manage the AI.
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Date: February 11th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: racy tan native immigrant
Psychiatry
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Date: February 11th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: Umber impertinent institution background story
Don't bother with college, total waste unless you are elite level smart and can do some sort of engineering degree (and legitimately enjoy the math / problem solving work.)
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.)
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Date: February 11th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: galvanic state
Lean into the ai,
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.
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Date: February 11th, 2026 3:39 PM Author: Olive nowag
Trades, electric, plumbing, construction, landscaping, HVAC. Or personal service/hands-on fields like nursing, massage therapist, barber, tarot card reader, seamstress/tailor. Unless kid is savant smart, stay out of college degree programs
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Date: February 11th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: galvanic state
Marcus (real name Zdeněk) was a marketing strategist at a retail company. When AI tools emerged, he didn’t try to write better marketing copy than the AI. He started running 50 campaign variations simultaneously. Something that would’ve required a team of 12 people before.
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
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Date: February 11th, 2026 10:40 PM Author: primrose temple antidepressant drug
Party promoter, nightclub business, etc
100% human and will always be about handsome humans
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Date: February 12th, 2026 7:34 AM Author: avocado stag film organic girlfriend
The trades suck unless you own your own business (even then the competition is fierce) or you’re in a union. Some options I’d suggest match earlier in the thread but it seems like it’s going to be grim
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
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Date: February 12th, 2026 9:28 AM Author: Red Locus Wrinkle
If you already have money, marry early and have kids early, spend you days raising them.
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.
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Date: February 15th, 2026 4:01 PM
Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,.,..,:,.,.:.:.,:.::,.
sports
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