http://jobs.aol.com/article/_a/americas-endangered-jobs/20060524144009990001
Jobs That May No Longer Exist by 2014
Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
While America's job outlook is healthy and many industries are projected to grow in the coming years, there are also signs that some occupations are becoming obsolete.
The majority of the decreases are in office and administrative support and production occupations, which are affected by the implementation of office technology that reduces the needs for these workers, changes in business practices, and escalating plant and factory automation. A majority of the job openings occurring in these occupations will arise not from job growth, but from the need to replace those who transfer to other industries, retire or leave for other reasons
Here are some of the jobs expected to severely decline between now and 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For the purposes of this blog, I have edited out everything but what's relevant...
Secretaries (Except Legal, Medical and Executive)
How many jobs are in jeopardy: 48,000
Why they're endangered: Automated equipment is changing the distribution of work in many offices. Professionals and managers increasingly do their own word processing and data entry, and handle much of their own correspondence rather than submitting the work to secretaries and other support staff.
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That's just great. That's just PERFECT.
Well, I knew that I didn't want to be a secretary forever, and I knew that my position is becoming a wee bit obsolete. So it doesn't bother me that the occupation of secretary might be caput by 2014. What bothers me is that there's gonna be a long downhill slide before the Secretary is actually extinct.
You know what's too bad about this?
Even with spell check, grammar check, everything check, these people still flub up their presentations, Word docs, etc regularly. If I weren't here to fix their glaring errors, and I do mean glaring, they would look like total idiots, not even taking into account whatever comes out of their mouths. I mean, these people can't spell. They don't know a thing about grammar. Very few of them are Word or Excel or PowerPoint masters. In fact, very few of them can function passably with the aforementioned software products. Those who can function passably still have their ignorance of spelling, grammar, and punctuation to overcome.
And in other news….
…my company was just bought by a private equity firm. ABC Nuts and Bolts will no longer be a publicly traded company. Turning a profit just became a whole lot more important, methinks.
Mr. Leads said that one thing that this means is that our company headquarters just got moved from here to Boston.
Ok, now this is going to sound ridiculous, but I read this murder mystery recently, and it was about a guy who runs a private equity firm. And how it seems to work, from what I understand, is that the equity firm buys and sells companies to turn a profit. Ok great. So we're part of their 'fund'. They don't micromanage the companies they buy; as long as they keep turning a profit at the same rate or better. They have a person on the board, but they leave the management and operations fairly intact, as long as said management and operations is performing to their expectations. If not, then things could get sticky.
They buy a company and hold onto it until they see an opportunity where our company is ripe for picking, and then they sell us. Mr. Leads said that that's wherein fear may lie. What if a company bigger than us buys us? Like a competitor? They won't need more than one sales and marketing department.
See why job security has morphed? Job security used to mean that you got a job, you worked there all your life, and then you retired with a pension from that job. Job security now means being in a field where your skills and background will always be in demand. Not necessarily at the same job for life or even for a long time. Job security these days is knowing that, if you lose your existing job for any reason, you can find another comparable position easily, because people need you. You're always in demand.
This is why education is so important. If you want to make a decent living, it seems that college is no longer an option. It's a requirement.
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