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Robots Recruited for Low Skilled Jobs

Robots Recruited for Low Skilled Jobs

Imagine a future where technology is so advanced that robotics has taken over low skilled jobs

Imagine a future where we no longer have a delivery postal person mailing letters through our doors, instead, drones will fly from the warehouse, warehouses, where robotic warehouse staff  unload vans, pick and pack goods, before loading drones that will fly to our houses dropping parcels into our hands

Imagine a future where robots stack shelves in supermarkets, where robots clean hospital wards and where robots engineer driverless cars, space stations and computer programmed glasses

Imagine a future where we work in space, exploring new planets, mining minerals from asteroids that are shooting across the galaxy, a future where we even holiday next to the stars

Future Careers and Robotics 

Imagine a future where science is so advanced that we can use the natural energy from the sun to power our computers, kitchen appliances and machines. A future where we collect free electricity from the power of waves and a future where cars run off natural gases

Imagine a future where we live to an average age of 110, a future where medical science has cured diabetes, cancer and even the common cold. A future where organs for transplants are grown in labs, where parents can choose the eye colour and skin tone of their unborn baby, a future where scientist grow strawberries in labs to the size my head, steaks as big as cars and carrots as long as my arm

Imagine this, no more starvation, a real reduction in illness, robots and robotics working in every industry, in every town and even in every home.

 

   

Robots in Jobs Now 

To some, this sounds like something from a weird science fiction film but in actual fact, most of what I have quoted is happening right now.

Amazon has just been given permission by the UK government to test delivery drones, a hospital in Scotland employs robotic cleaners, the care industry is predicting a 10% rise in jobs due to the aging population and the UK government has predicted 100,000 space jobs over the next 10 years.

Virgin galactic is a plane that fly’s people into outer space, there are plans to put a human settlement on Mars, a bus in London is powered by human excrement and the oldest women who die a couple of months ago lived to the age of 116

With technology changing rapidly, we don’t know exactly what will happen in terms of the labour market but one thing is clear low skilled jobs are on the decrease and high-skilled jobs – science, technology, engineering and maths are set to rise.

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Future UK Jobs 2014-2020

Future UK Jobs 2014-2020

The UK government has released its latest paper “Careers of the Future”

Background report – Dec 2014” this month predicting the increase and demise of various job sectors.

Overall high skilled jobs are on the increase and low-skill jobs are in decline. See below “source” for the full report.

Below is an extract from the paper.

Managers, directors and senior officials: The corporate managers category has been a significant source of employment growth for many years and this pattern of growth is expected to continue over the coming decade. The other category within this group is other managers and proprietors. This includes the owners and managers of small businesses, especially in the service sector. This category has also experienced steady growth in the past decade. This is expected to continue over the coming decade although the growth is moderated by the restructuring of the distribution and retailing sector, including the shift towards the use of the internet.

Professional occupations: All four of the professional sub-major groups experienced employment growth between 2002 and 2012 and this is projected to continue. The highest rate of growth for 2012-2022 is projected for Health professionals as the health sector begins to recover from slowdown caused by deficit reduction constraints. Science, research engineering and technology professionals and Business, media and public service professionals are also expected to see significant growth. All these professional groups are projected to increase their share of overall employment.

Associate professional and technical occupations: Substantial employment growth has been experienced by a number of these sub-major groups in recent years. Employment has grown most rapidly over the previous decade for health and social care associate professionals. The group was affected by cuts in public spending, but this is not expected to slow down the longer term trend. It is now projected to experience the most rapid rate of increase of all sub-major groups between 2012 and 2022. Growth was slowest over the past decade for science, engineering and technology associate professionals and for protective service occupations, both of which saw a net decline over the decade as a whole. The latter are expected to see some further job losses but things are expected to pick up for science, engineering and technology associate professionals as the economy recovers. The largest sub-major group in the associate professional category is Business and public service associate professionals, which includes specfic roles such as Sales accounts and business development managers. This is also projected to be by far the biggest contributor in this major group to future employment growth, contributing almost four times as many jobs as Health and social care associate professionals, the next largest contributor.

Administrative and secretarial occupations: A continuation of the decline in

employment is expected for this group as a whole as ICT displaces many such jobs.

Secretarial and related occupations, which includes secretaries, typists and word

processing operators, are expected to be particularly affected, reflecting their vulnerability to being displaced by advances in computer technology.

Skilled trades occupations: The recession has accelerated the already significant loss of jobs in many skilled trades occupations. Job losses in manufacturing and, post 2008 in construction, have impacted negatively on skilled metal and electrical trades, textile, printing and other skilled trades and construction and building trades. Construction trades are expected to recover over the coming decade, but this is not sufficient to reverse the overall decline for skilled trades. For textiles, printing and other skilled trades the pace of decline accelerates. Over the next decade jobs in construction and building trades are expected to grow more quickly than the average for the economy as a whole.

Caring, leisure and other service occupations: Historical employment growth in these categories is expected to continue over the coming decade. Caring personal service occupations were the most rapidly growing occupational sub-major group between 2002 and 2012. Although they slip into second place in terms of rate of growth over the period 2012-2022, in absolute terms they remain in top place, with an increase of over half a million jobs. A key driver here is the rising demand for services for an ageing population. The majority of these jobs are expected to be taken by women. The rate of growth in leisure, travel and related personal service jobs is expected to be more modest.

Sales and customer service occupations: This group is dominated by occupations

such as sales assistants and check-out operators in retail outlets who fall into the Sales Occupations sub-major group. This category has seen job losses in recent years as the retail and distribution sector restructures itself. Increasing concentration of businesses, competition from the Internet and technological developments such as automated checkout are expected to reduce the need for more traditional sales occupations, meaning that this pattern is expected to continue. In contrast, customer service occupations represent a much smaller but rapidly growing category. The demand for more specialist sales and customer care occupations is expected to continue over the coming decade.

Process, plant and machine operatives: This group includes a variety of occupations, some operating fixed plant in factories while others drive mobile plant and passenger and goods vehicles. Employment declined quite rapidly for the former category (process, plant and machine operators) over the last decade, linked to the loss of jobs in manufacturing. However, there were modest job gains for the transport and mobile machine drivers category. Over the coming decade, further substantial job losses are expected amongst process, plant and machine operators, whilst little change in the numbers of jobs for the transport and mobile machine drivers category is expected.

Elementary occupations: The elementary occupations consist of jobs that require little or no prior training. Employment levels across this group of occupations have been in long-term trend decline for many years, but there are some signs of this changing. The service sector, in particular, is beginning to generate a number of extra jobs in this area. Small job losses are expected for the decade as a whole but with some recovery in the second half of the period.

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Do You Want a Job in Space?

Space Workers Required.

Growing up in the 1980’s watching science fiction TV series, it wasn’t hard to imagine a future where we would all be working and living in outer space. As an adult, I realized that these fantasies were make-believe or are they?

With recent technological advancements, these childhood dreams could in actual fact become a reality. The UK government alone has predicted over 100,000  space jobs in the next 5-10 years.

Both businesses and governments can see the potential in space, which has been proven through funding being allocated to space innovators and scientists.  If space is the final frontier, the question you need to ask yourself is what space positions could you be employed in?

Space Miners

Recently the NASA-funded lunar research project has discovered evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the moon, which scientists believe originates from deep within the moon’s interior. Our knowledge of the make up of planets is increasing as research into projects such as magnetic water provides clues and an new understanding of how planets were formed.

Planetary geologists could play a vital role in the future discoveries of minerals and ores that we could use back on earth. With the earth’s natural supply of coal and oil dwindling, our next step maybe to mine and drill for these resources on orbiting planets.

It’s not just fueling resources on planets that we could mine. There is a  potential to find gold, starting of a new space gold rush. Gold and silver are formed through fusion inside of a star. When the earth was being created after the big bang, other stars exploded scattering heavy metals throughout the universe.

If gold and silver were created in the earth’s core, it would all be melted due to the intense heat, which means after the earth solidified, gold and silver hit the earth in the form of a large asteroid shower.

And if these asteroids hit the earth they may have hit other nearby planets too. Future generations could have the age-old job of gold mining or “forty-niners” as they were originally called. The future gold rush won’t see people panning for gold  in streams; it will be a more high tech operation using drilling and engineering technology.

Space Watchers

We have seen an increase in the number of satellites orbiting the earth.  These satellites are the eyes of the earth, saving employers both time and money. As an example, a construction project manager no-longer needs to leave their office to view how the project is progressing.

Instead, they can log into a  website that program’s the satellite, sending live images of how the project progresses.

The Google team have seen the potential of space, and recently launched its  Lunar X-PRIZE, where they want a private company to launch a rocket, safely land it on the surface of the Moon, make it travel for 500 meters above, below, or on the Lunar surface, and finally to send back two “Moon-casts” to Earth.

The prize is worth $40 Million, which is an example of the type of investment companies are committed to investing in the space sector.

One future space job will be asteroids watching. We know that asteroids killed of the dinosaurs and we don’t want the same thing to happen to the human race. NASA recently announced that it will launch a survey telescope to search for near-earth asteroids. These early warning systems may save thousands of lives in the event of asteroids hitting the earth. In the USA president Obama has even outlined plans that could see astronauts land on an asteroid.

This paranoia is a real threat, last year over 1000 people were injured in  Russia when a 40-ton meteor traveling at 33,000 mph explodes over a terrified town.

Space Holidays

Space could be the next destination for the holidaymaker. Virgin and Richard  Branson are already ahead of the game with this new sector, recently launching the world’s first spaceline – The Virgin Galactic.

This groundbreaking opportunity to holiday in space as one of the first-ever non-professional astronauts is a dream that can now be fulfilled. “The deal with  Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era  in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by  human beings a real possibility.” Richard Branson.

This could be just the start. We could soon be holidaying on Virgin space stations or booking accommodation on planets using advanced technologies to  provide air and water.

Dennis Tito the world’s first space tourist, recently launched a project to send a married couple into space to circulate the planet Mars, a trip lasting  500 days.

The trip costing over a £1 Billion pounds may not be a trip future  tourist could afford but the investment again shows the commitment business  leaders are having when it comes to space holidays

Future Space Jobs

In the innovation and testing stage of any new technologies and job sectors,  means we cannot accurately predict the future of these potential space jobs. All we know is that companies like Google, Virgin and Dennis Tito are all investing in space, which means they can see the potential space can offer. As with inventions like the internet and mobile phones, some skeptics may believe this is a fad, but the possibilities could be endless changing the jobs we will be employed in, the way we live,… or even where we live.

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