Other than Uber and Uber eats, I can’t imagine myself doing anything other than those. I might get a security guard certificate and guard empty halls during the night, which quite suits me.
Not a handyman, not suitable for physical jobs, I think I’m cooked! This is the fear that is always on my head.
What makes you think those jobs will still be available?
Uber : Getting replaced by Waymo
Uber Eats : They've been experimenting with ways to replace humans for this. I think the most likely scenario isn't those silly robots on the sidewalks but rather just a Waymo. Have the restaurant send someone to carry food from the restaurant to the Waymo idling at the curb, and have the customer come out to the street to pick up their food from the Waymo. We lose the door-to-door convenience but I think a lot of people would take that trade to eliminate the cost of tips and paying the delivery person.
Security Guard : AI monitoring security cameras and automating calls to police sounds trivial. There are also already "security robots" that move around so they could be dispatched for scenarios which do not warrant a call to the police.
Handyman / physical jobs : While I think these will last longer than the others, I think they won't last much longer. We've already invented all the necessary hardware. The limiting factor was the software. What happens when you take an LLM from the year 2030 and give it a pile of tokens to write the software to drive the robots to do plumbing/building/whatever.
This is my dilemma as well. I can't think of a role that won't be impacted so I don't know what to train for. When I was younger, my fallback was always going to be "truck driver" but that's going to be one of the first dominos to fall.
> Uber Eats : They've been experimenting with ways to replace humans for this. I think the most likely scenario isn't those silly robots on the sidewalks but rather just a Waymo. [..] We lose the door-to-door convenience but I think a lot of people would take that trade to eliminate the cost of tips and paying the delivery person.
Amazon is already able to do deliveries for some packages by drone in some cities. This seems perfect for it.
Not a handyman, not suitable for physical jobs, I think I’m cooked! This is the fear that is always on my head.