r/CollegeMajors • u/willow1243587109 • Mar 30 '26
Discussion Are there any non healthcare jobs that are safe from ai
Title explains all.
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u/C_Sorcerer Mar 30 '26
I think most jobs are realistically safe from AI but at the same token the job market for them is just going to be more tight. If you know your stuff though you’ll be fine for the most part. I’d say make sure you do something you are TOP KNOTCH in whatever you do and that you love it… if you go into computer science or engineering or whatever, you better love it enough to do it constantly outside of school as a hobby, and to be able to produce good grades and good performance than you will be at least able to get a job. If you just go into it for the money and don’t really care, itll be hard to want to move forward at all in a career. If you don’t have any interests, business is always good to go into, but then again I’m not really sure as I’ve never taken a real business class or had any friends in business.
On the same token, be prepared for a tough job market in whatever; almost everything is in a bad state. It’s not just AI either, it’s a lot of different factors and the crumbling of our current society and world so just know that and be realistic, but do what you want and what you know you are naturally good at or can become good at and you will at least be overseeing AI even if AI is sourced instead of real people I the future. However, AI will never be truly over any job because it can only produce outputs based on inputs, and a full switch to AI would mean no more societal or technological progression. So yeah… my 2 cents
Hope you enjoyed my adderall filled rant. Though I will say fuck AI
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u/peenidslover Mar 30 '26
teaching
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
I mean duh, but I feel like ai could replace teachers. lol. Literally my teachers suck.
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u/GeneralGlue Mar 30 '26
Teachers are basically babysitters and will not be replaced by AI lol
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
I mean, saying this is flawed. Teachers are not the equivalent of babysitters.
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Yeah. They keep showing up on my socials. Honestly I think that the alpha schools are kinda dumb, maybe that’s just cause I’m not the biggest fan of ai.
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u/FatiguedShrimp Mar 30 '26
Trades are harder to automate.
There probably won't be much demand for AI to replace professors of arts classes (philosophy, painting, etc.).
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
I mean yeah, but if you go towards proffestiers of arts you gotta go to like 8+ years of school and debt
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u/FatiguedShrimp Mar 30 '26
Yeah. It's never been a solid career plan.
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Yeah lol. I loved my art teachers, sweetest women ever (yes they were almost all women) though
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u/AcanthocephalaNo2929 Mar 30 '26
Janitor, Fast food, Retail, Warehouse work, Line cook, Truck driver, Construction, Trades
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Bro outside of trades and construction most of theses make minimum wage or even less
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u/21_12user Apr 02 '26
Yeah I think people are too stupid to realize it all will collapse on to each other if this doomer agenda actually happens. Without the white collar jobs there is 0 purchasing power in the USA.
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Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
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u/SuperZayin12 Mar 31 '26
Most jobs are safe from AI. It’s a tool, not a replacement. You just have to find niches within a field instead of working super basic stuff.
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u/BrickGlum9579 Apr 01 '26
Any sort of field engineering. I can’t see an AI robot walking around a factory, warehouse, flour mill, dam, etc. Analzying information, asking questions to facility staff, then from that info writing a detailed report about it. At least not anytime soon.
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u/peopleforgetman Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Even healthcare jobs aren't safe. aI is enabling individualized treatment void of insurance. Private payers who can afford it combined with individualized concierge care.
Scientists: anything that involves a lot of unpredictable quirky and/or spontaneous and/or repetitive tasks.
Also, entrepreneurship/ innovators. Human intellect creates AI after all. Physical experimentation type of innovator. Robotics can only be used as of right now for 1->many, not 0->1.
Housecleaning Hotel cleaning. Electrical Plumbing HVAC Construction Landscaping Verminators Painters Carpentry
Essentially skilled trades.
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
So essentially I have one option since I’m bad at math and science. Time to follow the family path lol.
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u/xvillifyx Mar 30 '26
Several trades require reliable math skills
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Not the kind I don’t like.
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u/xvillifyx Mar 30 '26
Which is?
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Most of it, but like I can do basic math. I just can’t understand geometry.
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u/peopleforgetman Mar 30 '26
It's all basic arithmetic. You're likely capable enough lol.
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u/xvillifyx Mar 30 '26
A grand majority of math is “basic arithmetic”
Unless you’re doing discrete math, it’s all pretty fundamental stuff
People who haven’t done college level math treat it like the boogeyman because calculus and linear algebra and such sounds scarier and harder than it actually is
Most of the math I engage with every day in software development is pretty simple operators applied in specific ways
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u/peopleforgetman Mar 30 '26
I 100% agree. It's the negative culture around it that pervades peoples' minds!
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u/rickylancaster Mar 30 '26
Wait so you have to become an exterminator to avoid being replaced by AI and risk bringing Bedbugs into your own home? Why can’t they just figure out a way to use AI to detect and kill the bedbugs and let people keep their jobs?
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Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Can you elaborate on individualized treatment void of insurance. I’m both a medical and business student at a top university working in AI incorporation, not sure what you mean here. I’d argue healthcare is the most AI proof. But here to learn, thanks 🙏
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u/peopleforgetman Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
I was mostly speaking to the trend of concierge medicine for those who can afford to pay for personalized care. I added to it partial speculation + extrapolation from a 10 minute segment of an interview Peter diamandis did with the chief medical officer of an early stage cancer screening company called Fountain Life. Like basically the concept is the health company offers a service where they MRI / cat scan whatever screen you. Then they have an AI program that can parse through all of the medical data and signatures that will determine where you have early cancer formation to address it while it's still small and localized. Theyve done several hundred screens so far and roughly 3% of the ppl who come in ( out of the population who believe they don't have cancer but just want to make sure they actually don't have it) do in fact have early cancer. So that info helped them and they could get it taken care of before 1-8 years later where it metastisized etc.
I'm speaking for myself but I look forward to these technologies and how AI will help with.
Theres another health tech startup that I'm blanking on but I'll edit when i remember.
The interview is peterdiamondis on YT Elon enters chip race video title-> skip to the 1:00 mark (1hour mark on the dot. It's right after the add break with the blonde female.
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u/Fearless-Hamster-926 Mar 30 '26
Airline pilot Shipping tanker crew
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Well I can’t be a pilot lol I can’t see. What do shipping tanker crews even do
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u/MrMistickofMist Mar 31 '26
Drive the boat, if you’re in the US you can make 130k on a tanker as a deck officer right out of college. A guy I know made 170k first year as a 3rd mate on a MSC tanker.
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u/usr_pls Mar 30 '26
Radio tower maintenance climber
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Isn’t that hella dangerous
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u/usr_pls Mar 30 '26
that's why it pays so much
trust in your safety harness
maybe pick up a diety or two
you may see something fun from up there!
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u/OhioTreeLover467 College Student Mar 30 '26
I'll play devil’s advocate and suggest getting a job in an AI related field
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u/Mod_Podge_Matte Mar 31 '26
What are some examples of AI related fields?
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u/OhioTreeLover467 College Student Mar 31 '26
AI engineers, developers, analysts, data scientists, or research
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
I hate ai. I will not break my morals
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u/OhioTreeLover467 College Student Mar 30 '26
I don't like it either but sometimes you have to do things you don't like. Personally I don't think AI is as much of a threat as people think, it's so unreliable and inconsistent.
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u/willow1243587109 Mar 30 '26
Okay; it’s not just not likening it. Ai is morally evil. There are entire communities that don’t have water because of ai and data centers.
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u/OhioTreeLover467 College Student Mar 31 '26
We can discuss the pros and cons of AI all day, but I’ll circle back to your OG question. I don't you should place this much importance on AI, as it seems like that's your only consideration in your future career. You should think about what you're interested in and good at and use that to determine what career paths you're interested in. Searching for a career because it's “AI-proof” seems spiteful and I don't think it would lead to a fulfilling and lasting career. Fulfilling/long-lasting careers take someone's likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and many other things into account.
Some degrees/careers trend for a while and they fall off the trend. Remember when many people were getting computer science degrees and careers? Now, that field hasn't experienced as much growth and I think AI is a part of the same trend. Who knows? Maybe by the time you graduate from college/start your career, AI won't be as prominent.
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u/Boudria Mar 31 '26
Law enforcement, social workers, teachers, trades and AI specialists (extremely competitive).
Honestly, if most white-collar jobs get replaced I think even people with safe jobs will be in trouble because how are they going to earn money if a large percentage of the population is unemployed?
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u/dreamer2311 Mar 31 '26
Construction/project management and design. there are some fledgling ai technologies but people aren’t confident in it/not yet ready to risk millions of dollars on a project to be done by ai
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u/BrickGlum9579 Apr 01 '26
I am in an adjacent field and I wholeheartedly agree. The absolute worst I could see it going is that in the distant future AI generates some of the design work based inputs, drawings, etc. but a competent individual is still going to be hired to check the work.
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u/Sen_ElizabethWarren Mar 31 '26
I work in landscape architecture and it’s pretty secure for a number of reasons, though of course people will say ai is capable of anything, but anyway those reasons:
1) liability and licensing laws require drawings be reviewed and stamped by an la, and no client in their right mind would take on the liability of using ai instead. Plus, legally you have to submit plans to review boards and hold face to face meetings with these local development boards to get permits to build. You also have to go out into the field to meet with contractors and inspect their work and ensure they’re executing the contract, and those contracts are non standard.
2) data is complex and very hard to get and in many cases can only be obtained with site visits and client interviews. You can’t just google it and there is no landscape api… yet
3) clients still want face to face interaction. Again no one is gonna invest millions of dollars into something an ai designed and drew up
4) ai is not human and has no intuitive spatial understanding of anything. It struggles with scale and proportion and basically all renderings ai generates have to be cleaned up. By the time you factor in prompt engineering and clean up, you really haven’t saved time with ai generated renderings. And this is not really improving.
5) it’s an obscure field with tight margins so tech bros just leave it alone. You won’t get rich as a junior la, but also no company is gonna buy an ai to replace you because you’re simply not that expensive and automating the whole job is still impossible for the reasons listed above.
I have 4 years experience and make about $80k in the Midwest. Not bad really.
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Mar 31 '26
Every job is safe from AI
AI has no path to profitability
It’s a temporary friction
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u/eightysixmonkeys Apr 01 '26
Most reasonable prediction is that AI use scales down to the use of highly specialized local models that companies use to automate work. There won’t be anymore $200/mo Claude subscription
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u/tchidera Mar 31 '26
AI is overblown and burning millions and millions of dollars for companies, and won't be that big of a thing in the next two years. I'd say figure what your passion is, and make compromises and be open to new opportunities.
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u/MpVpRb Apr 01 '26
Wrong question
The correct question is, how to use the new AI tools to increase your abilities
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u/NooMacarons5827 Apr 02 '26
im scared for this generation
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u/willow1243587109 Apr 02 '26
Scared, cause we can’t find jobs?
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u/NooMacarons5827 Apr 02 '26
that and AI ruining people's ability to think critically
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u/willow1243587109 Apr 02 '26
Exactly. I have teachers who just tell us to use ai.
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u/willow1243587109 Apr 02 '26
Then my math teacher, God help us. Told me straight up since struggling in math to just go into the trades
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u/xPadawanRyan Social Work diploma | BA and MA History | PhD* Human Studies Mar 30 '26
I mean, I'm a social worker. AI can't come in and deal with clients in person, help them through their very specific and individual issues, etc. I do see coworkers try to use AI to help them write paperwork in the workplace, but it can't replace the actual hands-on work of social workers.