• Photonic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Definitely not. I said some sectors will be more affected than others and that people who are replaced with AI can work in (other career paths like) health care or education.

    There are still sectors that have a lot of job openings and of course you don’t need to become a burger flipper but #2 is health care. And I’m sure you can imagine that with an aging population the job openings will only increase. There are a lot of jobs that only require high school, or if you want a better job, take a course.

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      21 hours ago

      Your first comment clearly said that sometimes leaving a sector for one with more available jobs is necessary. To be honest, I don’t fully disagree, but it does make the reply to my comment a bit contrary.

      Anyway, changing paths isn’t always so easy for a variety of factors, especially if you’re in a situation like myself where you get little to no feedback on why you aren’t getting hired. Spending time and money on official training that turns out wasn’t even the problem is only going to make the problem worse.

      Hell, here in Canada, for sure I could consider gping into healthcare but also many provincial governments are crippling healthcare(they’re trying to break everything so it can be privatized) so it’s not really a great sounding idea. Logic and morality do not often apply to the job market, unfortunately, and that can leave a lot of people feeling completely out of control. You work to build up a career and then it disappears for no reason leavjng you to start over like you’re a teenager again except now no one will hire you because they say you’re going to expect too much.

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        20 hours ago

        I don’t understand what you mean, how is saying you need to change from one sector to another contrary to saying some sectors are more under pressure from AI than others?

        It’s the same thing using different words. What I mean is I think people will have change their career paths towards fields that are less affected by AI replacement than their current one.

        As to your situation, I don’t exactly know where you have tried, and why you aren’t getting hired. But the change may have to be more drastical than taking a certain course hoping to meet the requirements of the same job openings you were going for before.

        And the health care sector isn’t perfect either, but it has a lot going for it. One being the certainty of increasing demands – or at least for the next twenty years or so – because of an aging population. Not many sectors have that kind of thing going for them. Another could be solar panel installer or something similar.