If you want to study for a course in the university, there are professions you should avoid because they will die in future. Here is the list of the dying professions to avoid:
- Travel Agents
They are tasked with managing the transport and accommodation of a client. All these are handled online nowadays. Technology has simplified things. People no longer have to go to the agency or hotel to book anything. Everything happens online
- Cashier
Cashiers are known to receive and count the money after people have purchased products from a store or shop. This Job will no longer be available since machines will be up to the task. They can count money faster and accurately.
- Fast Food Cooks
Robots are beginning to dominate the areas that human beings are used to. They will be churning and controlling the processing of fast food since they are machines. They can do the job faster and efficiently.
- Mail Carrier
In the 21st Century everything is online and technology is the main thing. Manual work such as delivering letters and picking them will be irrelevant. People can talk to each other when they are miles apart through a gadget.
- Bank Teller
People no longer require bank tellers to withdraw or deposit money. Nowadays, People use ATM cards to do their deposits and withdrawals. This shows that the Career of bank tellers is at stake. It will be extinct in the next few years.
- Textile Worker
They help is making cloths, cutting canvas, operating machines and ensuring that right patterns and prints have been followed. The machines have taken over this field. They just need to be commanded by putting in the details then work is done.
- Printing Press operator
They prepare, operate and maintain printing presses. They install and adjust printing plates, loading ink and feeding paper. Most of this can be done by a machine without involving a human being. It is very likely that print press operators will be taken over by machines.
- Sports Referee
It is predicted that robots and Artificial intelligence will soon take over the referees. They will be replaced by the new technology that keeps advancing from time to time.
- Jeweller
Career experts are already expecting negative job growth of more than 12% for jewellers, thanks to the dominance of online shopping over brick-and-mortar jewellery store purchases in addition to the widespread outsourcing of the occupation. Not only are jewellery stores disappearing, but fewer people are taking their jewellery to get repaired, which paints a bleak picture for the role.
- Dispatcher
From Google Maps to Uber, people have more ways than ever to bypass traditional transportation dispatchers, who are clinging to one of the least secure jobs in existence. In 50 years, it’s hard to imagine that young people will be able to comprehend a time when people had to call another person to schedule a ride.
- Lumber Jack
The work that was handled by heavily built men is now taken care of by man made machines. Industries no longer need man power to cut down trees and carry loads of wood. Instead, they use machines to make work easier. It is more efficient and time saving. It has also reduced the danger that comes with handling huge trees.
- Tele Marketer
It is a highly repetitive job which is convenient for a machine. Due to its nature, it has a higher risk of falling into automation. It is one of the most endangered Jobs that is in the market.
- Fisher
The application of new technology has led to more accurate data on fish stocks, better monitor, enforce and evaluate the impacts of the climate on fishing and ways to increase the amount of fish harvested.
- Legal Secretary
Secretarial jobs are becoming extinct. They are not required anymore since a PA can do the job or better yet, people can get information from websites. Most offices do not require a secretary in the present day.
- Assemblers of processors and semiconductors
This is a highly automated job, these are the people who were once paid to make chips but the career will be taken over by robots. Technology has come with many new ways of making life easy but also difficult to some.
- Safety Inspector
Nowadays we do not need people to inspect us. Machines are up to that task. They detect every type of dangerous thing. Airports and other places which require tight security have machines to inspect people’s bags and bodies.
- Taxi Drivers
New technology has come and turned everything around. It has made things easier. Soon Cars will automatically drive themselves and the work of the user will be sitting down and saying the destination. Many taxi drivers will lose their jobs in the next few years.
- Financial Advisor
Why higher a person when you can get the same services at a lower price? Robots and automated machines are taking over this job. Their math is more reliable and they are able to break down everything into detail. Most human beings will not be hiring their fellow men for such services. The robots have them covered.
- Prepress technician
There was a time when typesetters arranged individual letters for each page of a print publication before it went to press. Technology eliminated that job and ushered in the era of the prepress technician, who also works to ensure the integrity of printed materials before the presses start running. Thanks to sophisticated publishing software, however, the tides have turned once more and the industry is expected to forfeit half its jobs over 10 years.
- Typist or word processor
In the new day and age, smartphones have made this work easier. Now, one can just say what they want written on the screen and that will happen. This is sad for people who depend on typing and processing words as a way of earning income.
- Locomotive firer
These are the people who are tasked with riding trains and ensuring that there are no dangers on the way. They are soon going to be extinct because the new trains are automatic. They know when to start and when to stop. They can also detect when there is danger.
- Switch board Operators
If you’ve ever called a business and been asked to press buttons for options, you’ve interacted with a computer doing a job that was once done by a human switchboard operator. There are still some of them left, but they’re a dying breed: Nearly one in four switchboard operator positions have disappeared since 2010
- Customer support
This is the team that is in charge when a customer complains about a certain product or wants to know how a product is used. These details can be handled by Artificial intelligence. They can break down the methods to use and how a product should be used.
- Ware House worker
They ensure that products are packaged and stored properly. Soon, ware house workers will not be needed anymore because machines with be carrying, processing, arranging and keeping the products in a safe place.
- Data entry clerks
Their work involves transferring formats into computer files or database systems. The computers and machines in the present day can be used for the same work that a professional is paid to do. It also reduces costs because the employee needs to be paid but the machine does not.
- Administrative and executive secretaries.
Machines have taken over this sector. People can feed their details in a machine and get their appointments and the information they need from the same. Machines have made work easier but also caused some few disappointments.
- Accountants and auditors
They mostly prepare and look through financial records, identify the risks and opportunities then provide solutions for businesses and individuals. This can also be ensured by Artificial intelligence in more accurate and efficient way.
- Computer Programmers
Most people covet this Job but it is at a high risk of being overtaken by robots. It is job that was developed by man to control machines through coding. It is so sad that the same machines they were building will take over what they started.
- Librarians
They probably do not want to hear this, but their jobs will soon be over. Why would someone carry heavy loads of books when they can have all of them in one gadget? The books are put in a catalogue and one can refer to them anytime of the day. E books and audiobooks are now available almost everywhere.
- Film Processing technicians
Every industry, including the film industry is switching to the new technological ways of handling things. Thus, most people who have been in the film industry will slowly start losing their value since robotics and new ways of filming have come up.
- Pilots
In the near future robots will be controlling planes and doing the work that pilots do. It is reported that the job that pilots do is at risk of being overtaken by robots.
- Surveyors and mapping technicians
Most surveyors and mapping technicians will be taken over by robotics and other technological advancements. Besides, the robots are very accurate and efficient.The skills from the surveyors will be obsolete.
- Meter reader
Many house hold are used to tokens and the use of technology to check their meter reading. Meter readers will be irrelevant in the near future as technology spreads even to the remote areas.
- Coal Miner
People who claim to be bringing back the coal industry are essentially promising to bring back video rental outlets to the unemployed Blockbuster employees. There are claims that engineers and programmers now predominate in the sector and that their expertise is what drives the technology that performs the majority of the actual mining. Even worse, as the globe turns to better energy sources, coal is a limited resource that is quickly running out.
- Computer Operator
Software that can do all of the functions of computer operators, including entering commands, handling error messages, and monitoring systems, is quickly replacing them. Most computer operators will no longer be in use in the next few years.
- Florist
Nowadays, customers are considerably more likely to purchase flowers from a website or their neighbour-hood grocery store than from a local florist. There is such a sharp decline in flower business.
- Air Traffic controller
Pilots have long relied on air traffic controllers as beacons, leading them to their intended airport and directing them as they go. However, automation is already taking over this guiding, so it won’t be more than 50 years before personless flight towers are a reality.
- Sonographer
In order to deliver technology to soldiers on the battlefield without endangering human sonographers, the military developed robots that could do sonograms. Now, sonographers who are humans are the ones who run the risk of losing their jobs to the very robots that are meant to safeguard them.
- Restaurant servers
Even though many restaurants currently have computerized, self-ordering table kiosks, the traditional approach of vocally placing an order with a human server is still the normal dining protocol. However, if AI advances to the point where robots may serve as the intermediary between diners and the kitchen, this tendency is likely to change.
- Interpreters/ Translator.
For a long time, translators believed they were immune from machine translation since computers could never learn to comprehend and capture the nuances of language, such as accents, dialects, and secondary word meanings. Machine translation has been under development for more than fifty years. Those computers are getting close, and the machine translation market is worth $8 billion annually.