what will you be doing for work in 10-15 years?

[ulysses]

I asked this some months back after it was brought up on one of the nightly newsthings. Given the rate at which even jobs previously considered safe (remember when IT was going to be the salvation of manufacturing workers displaced by economic globalization?) are going overseas, have you ever considered how secure *your* field is?

Personally, having recently gotten back into teaching, I'm waiting for the technological miracle that allows five instructors in, say, Belarus to simultaneously provide for 100,000 students here, by satellite and instantly translated as necessary...

[wryter2000]

1. I hope I'll be retired

And writing romance novels.

[CMT]

2. hopefully full-time writer

I'm writing a biography of Agnes Moorehead and hoping to get it published and if it does well hopefully have my dream of being a writer come true.

I want to write a biography of Fritz Mondale one day.

[Heddi]

3. Registered Nursing

Done with the Pre-Req's now. Just waitng to be accepted into a program.

Hopefully in 10-15 years, I'll at least have my BSN, and more hopefully have a Masters.

But I'll be nursing and caring for all my sick and ill DU'ers :)

[BiggJawn]

4. Something, I hope!

Maybe I'll be married to Paris Hilton and won't have to worry...:P

[ulysses]

6. yeesh!

Think I'd rather be unemployed...:scared:

[Heddi]

10. You're going to have to be in competition with my husband, then

I've never seen him drool like when Simple LIfe is on....it's amazingly funny, actually.

I told him for Xmas I'd buy him a broom-stick and put a blonde wig and a bikini on it.

He said "you're jealous"

and I said
"you're right". If I looked like Paris Hilton, I'd be the happiest girl in the world. NO, Cross that. If I looked like Paris Hilton and was worth a few billion, THEN I'd be the happiest girl in the world :)

[BiggJawn]

12. He can schtupp her, I only want the money...

Then I could concentrate on stealing Delta from Gerald.....

[Skittles]

17. sorry

I think she looks like a total skank

[BiggJawn]

19. Who? Delta or Paris?

:P

[onebigbadwulf]

5. Neurosurgery in New Zealand

Sorry, the malpractice in America is too ridiculous.

[quispquake]

7. Hopefully out of the IT field!!!

My real love is dealing in used/collectible books & records...I did this before my son was born, but realized I'd never have the $$$ to properly care for him...so, I joined the then happening 'computer revolution' so I'd have the $$$.

I'm still doing it, but once my son is out of school (six more years) it's back to books & records (I hope!!!)

[BiggJawn]

15. I'm waiting for IT to come crashing down...

I used to be in Instructional Video, then we re-orged (3 times in 18 months, now!) and got "fostered" to the IT gruppo simply because they couldn't figure out what else to do with us.
I hate it. Lots of stress. never mind that this center did video for almost 50 years, we all have to learn a "new way" of doing things, which is the "People Shredder Model" of modern business. hire them, drain them, "document" them, dump them...

Once they run out of places to move "The Cheez" to and we're all dancing as fast as we can, something's gonna snap...

I'm thinking of starting a small bicycle shop....

[quispquake]

22. The stress is what's nailing me too...

Basically IT is puzzle solving 10 hours a day, and sometimes it's nice to just coast ya know??? But, I could have no job, so I understand I'm 'lucky'.

I just don't get the highs from IT I do from records & books...

[Kolesar]

8. Growing cabbages and digging potatos

I wonder just how cheaply I could live. No more $1000 bicycles, wah

[Fixated]

9. Hopefully something in politics

It'll be my major, so right through college I intend to start working on building a career out of it.

[grannylib]

11. I would love to be teaching in a university; if I could afford to go back

to school for MA and PhD I would in a heartbeat...

[buddhamama]

13. hmmm...

cleaning toilets, if i'm lucky.

i cleaned houses for a living when i was in school,i'm not opposed to it but, i'd rather not.

[ulysses]

16. we'll all

be there at the rate we're going. That or bagging fries for people who can't pay for them.

[adriennel]

14. academic librarian

sigh...I'd love a full-time librarian position at a university. this is not a particularly growing field : ) even though many "hot career" articles include Information Professionals as possible sources for new jobs (I don't know what these articles are talking about, because IT/IS professionals I know aren't swimming in job offers, it's the opposite).

but
I'm damn happy and lucky to have a job, especially the kind of job I have now. Hopefully I will pay my dues for the next few years and mabe I'll get lucky (academic institutions please contact me!)

[BiggJawn]

18. The "Hot Career" writers haven't had a reality check in a while.

Went through the same thing in the 80's. "An exciting, rewarding, HIGH-PAYING career in Electronics awaits YOU!" got out of school and there WAS no high-paying career. the bubble had burst and they wanted PROGRAMMERS, not hardware geeks...

I'm tired of having to re-invent myself every 10-15 years...

[mitchum]

20. Ulysses, that's why you need to go into Special Ed like myself...

there is no way that the Belarus/technology "solution" can be applied. And GA really does fund Special Ed. programs.

[ulysses]

23. I'm very much considering it.

One of my sisters is a special ed teacher, and I taught for four years at a private school for learning disabled kids. I'd probably be doing it now if the Atlanta PS hadn't run into funding issues last spring.

But never underestimate a bean-counter's willingness to even try to teach sped kids via cathode ray tube...

[bedtimeforbonzo]

21. Hopefully a Paramedic

I just got my EMT cert last night!

Getting on with a fire department is tough, though.