Choice of profession

When choosing a profession, it is important to take into account not only the opportunity to earn good money now, the demand for specialists, but also how promising this profession will be in a certain time, in 10-20-40 years. So that at the pre-retirement age one does not have to radically retrain and start anew to gain experience in the specialty.

American career guru Daniel Pink, in his book "The Future of the Right Hemisphere", argues that the information age may soon end, and highly specialized knowledge may no longer be in demand.
The world economic system is entering a new era, the era of the whole picture, not individual words. The future is in big, big ideas. Just three of the most common concepts: surplus, Asia, automation - will help to understand the direction of the economy and the demand for skills in the future.

Excess - copying standard techniques and skills that bring results. Thousands and thousands of identical specialists with the standard skills of economists, singers, writers. The repetition of ideas and articles on websites, newspapers and movies gives an overabundance of what has been said and embodied, which in turn gives rise to greater competition.

Asia - a huge number of cheap labor, not only physical labor, but also mental, the rapid growth of inexpensive qualified specialists in programming, design and other professions from India, China and others, provide a huge share of inexpensive services and products.

Automation - over time, dull, meaningless work will become a thing of the past, not so much physical, as office clerks, those who are engaged in analytical and other uncreative work.
So after all, what to look for when choosing a profession? Daniel Pink proposes to learn what is difficult to copy (avoid excess), very difficult to transfer to third countries for execution and not amenable to automation. That is, to use the right hemisphere of the brain and its creative work.

Since the left hemisphere is responsible for speech and logic itself, which are surprisingly easy to model and subject to computer program calculations, which leads to the replacement of "manual" work. And the likelihood of a significant reduction in office staff may be much closer than you want.

Developing qualities in yourself that are not amenable to automation and outsourcing will help you move smoothly into a new era. There are six qualities in total: creativity, empathy (sensitivity, responsiveness), a sense of style, the ability to speak vividly, the ability to create and manage a team, play and generate new ideas.

Thus, creative skills will always be in demand!