Here are the top five careers that he and others say are in decline, primarily because of the ascendency of technology.
1. Travel Agents.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that the number of travel agents will decline by 12 percent over the next ten years.
2. Mortgage Brokers. The number of traditional mortgage brokers dropped by 80 percent during the Great Recession, and the profession hasn’t really recovered.
3. Bookeepers. According to Dmytro Arshynov of DMA Financial Management, the job of bookkeeping will be eliminated within a decade and replaced with automated technologies.
4.Lawyers. Recommendations for aspiring legal eagles is to focus on non-routine human emotion intense areas, like jury selection or witness profiling, not traditional legal fields.
5. Broadcasters. One in 10 of the nation’s 33,202 radio and television announcers are expected to see their jobs disappear by 2026.
King Solomon wrote, “A man’s heart devises his way: but the Lord directs his steps.”
Whatever direction you take, career, family, that destination is ultimately in God’s hands.
Jesus said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”.
Anxious about your future? Relax and rest in the promise that Paul told the Philippians, “Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” And then the payoff, when Paul concludes in the next verse, “And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
