Anyone have any input on where the USA Job market is moving 5 years from now?
What segment/sector will stay in the US? - I definitely see most of the compuer Jobs moving to ASIA.
Which seqment/Sector will escape from the above & what percent?
<p>if anybody actually knew the answer to what you ask, they’d be using that knowledge to make a fortune in the stock market and not be giving the answer away for free here</p>
<p>biotech is big now and will get much bigger in the next few years</p>
<p>Biotech is at risk if our politicians don’t ok stem cell research. If we don’t do it - someone else will. Try nurse, surgeon, anesthesiologist, dentist, vet, or physical therapist. Think hands on contact. Careers at risk - Lawyer, Pharmacist, Radiologist, Architect, Teacher, and Sales. Pretty sad, isn’t it?</p>
<p>how is a lawyers job at risk?</p>
<p>Trial laywers are not at risk, but there is a lot of corporate law that can be done overseas.</p>
<p>nursing will never be outsourcing.
Careers at risk - banking, investment analysist.</p>
<p>Lawyering, done overseas? (Laughs.) You need to pass the bar to do legal work… as in, you need to go to an ABA-accredited law school and pass a national test, a professional ethics test, and a state-specific test. Otherwise, you aren’t allowed to practice law here.</p>
<p>Defense work (i.e. military technology) and anything like that - where physically being in the US and being a citizen, or having the US education is important - will stay here. Also, anything which is highly dependent upon passing gov’t regulation will remain here. Lawyering. Sales (which involves A LOT of face-to-face interaction). Banking - is there FDIC insurance overseas? Money management. Accounting. Pharmaceuticals. Pharmacy (as in, being a pharmacist). Civil engineering. (CompE can go overseas - if the programme doesn’t work, it’s apparent immediately. Very few safety standards for a comp programme. Compare with building a bridge - it needs to be in compliance with a lot of safety and environmental standards, and then actually built here.) Construction workers, plumbers, car mechanics, and electricians aren’t going overseas. </p>
<p>In theory, almost anything which can be done from home (i.e. telecommuting) and does not require some sort of US certification, citizenship, or the like - can go overseas.</p>
<p>“Biotech is at risk if our politicians don’t ok stem cell research. If we don’t do it - someone else will. Try nurse, surgeon, anesthesiologist, dentist, vet, or physical therapist. Think hands on contact. Careers at risk - Lawyer, Pharmacist, Radiologist, Architect, Teacher, and Sales. Pretty sad, isn’t it?”</p>
<p>lawyers and pharmacist will never go oversee. too much regulation on drugs and law. Neither will anything in healthcare or anything gov’t related like construction. the at risk careers are computers, electrical, and mechanical engineers.</p>
<p>how does law exactly go oversees?.. i didnt know you can do corporate law from a different country. Also, ibanking is still essential, you can’t just have someone in China do the ibanking instead.</p>
<p>technically you can. hires a bunch IB from China for minimum wage. have them work from their computers thru da internet. fire all those overpaid USA IB.</p>
<p>Ariesathena -</p>
<p>Law is already being done overseas, as is accounting. There were a bunch of stories in the news recently about Accounting firms outsourcing tax returns. Anywhere the software can exist the job can be done. A lawyer in India can prepare a contract much cheaper than a lawyer in the US. You can have 10 people in India preparing contracts in India and one Lawyer reviewing them here, instead of 4 Lawyers here. Yes, someone here has to ok the contract and appear in person, but that is still 3 high paying jobs gone.</p>
<p>As for defense contracts, In January, the Pentagon awarded the contract for the Marine One Helicopter to Lockheed Martin, over Sikorsky Aircraft. As part of this contract the transmission and rotary blades will be designed and built overseas.</p>
<p>Banks can exist here with a few tellers and managers, but all the back office processing can be done elsewhere. Many of our banks have foreign parent companies, for example - Dominion Bank of Canada owns Banknorth.</p>
<p>Many of our medicines come in pre-dosed packages manufactured overseas.</p>
<p>This doesnt mean that there will be no need for Lawyers, Bankers, and Pharmacists, but when parts of the job can be outsourced, fewer of them are needed. You only have to look at the software industry. In 1998, programmers from around the world came here to help with the Y2K problem. It was naïve of us to think that they would come here, take low-level jobs and then return home. Contacts were made, new companies formed in Bangladore, India and now many of the higher-paying jobs are outsourced there. This trend will continue.</p>
<p>“Many of our medicines come in pre-dosed packages manufactured overseas.”</p>
<p>Most Americans DONT trust Foreign drugs. And the actual pharmacist can’t be replaced like a programmer can.</p>
<p>I disagree. Americans use foreign medicines safely every day. Boehringer Ingelheim is a German pharmaceutical company. They make Dulcolax, a stool softener, which is available over the counter in most American Drug stores and supermarkets, and Combivent, which is an asthma medication. Aventis is a French company. They make insulin products and flu vaccines. AstraZeneca, a British company, makes of several cancer drugs and Accolate, an asthma medication. Novatis is a Swiss company. They make Elidel for eczema as well as drugs for high blood pressure. Sankyo and Shionogi are Japanese.</p>
<p>Pharmacists will always be needed to dispense the drugs a doctor orders, but there are many jobs that pharmacists used to do in hospitals and pharmacies that are now being done by the pharmaceutical companies.</p>
<p>We can never get rid of politicians.</p>
<p>Fortunately for me, unfortunately for a lot of America.</p>
<p>Americans SHOULD trust foreign drugs though</p>
<p>And Dima, I’d rather have constantly squabbling politicians than an assertive, decision-making dictator lol</p>
<p>well the cliche is nanotech but i don’t see it going anywhere.</p>
<p>What is the #1 job that will stay here? I have one answer - sales.</p>
<p>Sales, especially real estate brokerage, both residential and commercial.</p>
<p>I agree. You can make good money in sales, but isn’t it sad that we are losing so many other good jobs!</p>