Re:Panic at the Job Market
by weatherlite on Thursday July 18, 2024 @09:48AM
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Nurse is one of those occupations with pretty much guaranteed employment unless you burn yourself out (which is a real possibility unfortunately), but as long as you are able to and want to work there will be plenty of work for the reasons you've just said.
If/when humanoid robots are a thing (probably not this decade or the next) then yeah we can all pretty much retire, but nurses will be the last to go.
Re:Panic at the Job Market
by CapitalTntcls on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:44AM
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When I stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks without being able to move, nurses where doing everything for me. I remember how much I cried over that when I left the hospital, how much grateful I was. They all just looked like angels to me.
I'm considering switching occupations and becoming a registered nurse (in my country in europe).
The demographics here are so bad, I don't think we will need a large STEM workfore in ~15 years. Your shiny Vision-GPT model is useless when there is no one that wipes the asses of the elderly.
And I don't think Silicon Valley has the capabilities to solve this problem, no matter how often Sam Altman assures that it does.