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Ooooh, you make excellent points! Event photography really will be the way!

Shortening trousers with my sewing machine? 🙃

I can’t put into words the dopamine highs I get from fixing random stuff around the place. I think I would be very happy as a maintenance guy.

but then terraform .. umm .. home-aform automates it.

Gardening and/or making toys for kids (wooden and crochet ones)

Subsistence farmer for my day job and full-stack letterpress studio (content, design, print, mail) for my night job.

I think if all white collar jobs go to AI we're either in the Culture novels, in which case jobs = whatever, or playing Cyberpunk, in which case BBQing rats or kowtowing to corporate overlords are likely to be the available options. Either way, I don't expect many current occupations to still exist.

Fixing old cars with no CPUs in them at all. Carbs, oil and timing. BLISS

Painter and wall paperer. I'm so dang good at it

Potato farmer.

I‘d probably going to teach crafts like woodworking or weaving to kids … if I can live of it

Painting and decorating, but I’m not sure anyone would actually pay me to do that.

Plumber. It's a lateral move from software.

code janitor. pushing around an "npm audit" mop and pruning git branches. unfortunately, "go into the trades" doesn't work if everyone is doing it. but the quality of plumbing apps will be amazing when all the sw devs start fixing your pipes.

Rapping? Does ‘musician’ even count. If not, probs retail

Bibliotherapist

With interior design some parts can be AI collab, but it’s still a physical job demanding an understanding of light, texture, space, and, most of all, meeting human needs for a home. What activities does this space enable and encourage, how does storage work, etc. But family photography, not at all

Because people like you and me wants the photos for ourselves and maybe close ones, for the memories and the feels. People that use these AI image products usually have insecurities and just want them for other people’s approval. Of course I’m generalising but I think that’s the gist of it.

Yeah okay, you're right on this one, I didn't think this through for the family Fotos 😅😂

Thank you for joining the discussion! Was kind of a quick comment on my part, thanks for explaining! ✨🤩

Postman

We need tons of electrical engineers for the power grid here in the NL and I don’t understand squat about electricity (volts, watts, watt hours, what?!) so that might be interesting to learn!

I'd always dreamed of running a sandwich shop when I retire. Maybe that'll be earlier than expected

i think maybe something with cars

Interior design is more at risk, but family photography not at all. bsky.app/profile/magg...

Is Lamp lighter still a job? I think I could do that

I have nothing. But if software development disappears I assume photographer and interior designer are gone as well.

Solar panel installations or just general electrician, bike mechanic, there aren’t even laboratory level prototypes of robots that can do this.

well I am getting more and more serious about my pottery, but unfortunately I've been doing it enough to know I don't want to be a production potter. idk. maybe handmade ceramic jewellery, some teaching? or do tech for events, I do enjoy that when I do it

I would help people apply for jobs. Up to and way past the point where AI becomes the default

Cups! No GPU based replacement because this industry has already been disrupted a hundred times over. 🤣 🏺 bsky.app/profile/notw...

Aquaponics farming. The chemistry is interesting - bacteria turn fish waste into natural fertilizer so the fish and plants can balance each other out

Make physical stuff. Could be furniture. Could be door locks. Or locally running smart home stuff. Or just coffee and snacks.

Sparky

The struggle between the act of creation and the need to 'make it pay' is a heavy one. A coffee table book of beer cans sounds like a wonderfully honest archive of specific human choices. Sometimes the best things we do are the ones that refuse to be simplified into a transaction.

of course, later down the line I'd like to open a combination craft beer bar and museum in Tokyo or operating a vending machine empire are things my partner and I dream about doing but neither of those have a straight-forward path to make them happen, rather they are just soft-retirement ideas

I'm pretty handy, could probably do machining or carpentry.

Electrician - not that I'm qualified, but came very close to jacking it all in to retrain in the last 2 years.

Follow my father’s footsteps and make wood cabinets on boats. Hoping that robot dexterity doesn’t catch up as quickly.

I meant "importing" oof

Blacksmith, mebbe?

Definitely gardener 👩🏻‍🌾

All the AI interior design I see uses galvanized steel and eco-friendly wood veneers… knowyourmeme.com/memes/galvan...

Train driver :)

Prolly goat herding in the countryside.

I’ll be going back to cheffing

Oh TIL! I did photography before too, but just small gigs throughout high school/uni to make extra cash. I figure it’s pretty un-automateable. But also going to be one of the first markets to saturate since lots of people enjoy it 😅 Gotta find more niche manual labour ideas

Mine is home baker. Just applied for my cottage food producer license!