15 cool jobs you could have in the future

People anywhere can now share their rides using Uber and their homes through Airbnb. So, what’s next? Johannes Reck, CEO of GetYourGuide, says more travellers want “in-destination” experiences with locals, like walking tours, cooking classes, day trips, outdoor excursions and more. Reports found that this tourism market was expected to reach a whopping $1,626.7 billion in the US by 2026—though, of course, that was before the massive hit that worldwide tourism took due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism is continuing to evolve, and according to Reck, “the first company to build a truly global marketplace for this diverse collection of ‘things to do’ won’t just be giving tourists a way to improve their holidays—it’ll be giving entrepreneurs with amazing cultural content a new platform for building and running businesses.”

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There’s no doubt the voice-control market will expand in the future, but Amazon’s and Apple’s cloud-based voice service is already here—and wildly popular. Margaret Groves from Engineered Process Improvement says there will be a huge demand in the coming years for Alexa and Siri programmers in every business to update phone applications, computer systems, operating programs and more so that they function smoothly with Alexa and Siri.

In the next few years, more companies are expected to look into how they can not only make money but also do the world some good while employing full-time staff. A profitability consultant for green and social entrepreneurship businesses, Shel Horowitz, says businesses will look at going beyond sustainability (keeping things the same) and into “regenerativity” (making things better). These regenerative change officers will assist in developing and marketing profitable products and services that turn “hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance,” according to Horowitz’s site.

No one wants to wave goodbye to our beautiful ecosystems. To save Mother Nature, someone will need to reverse the damage humans have done to the environment. Through the Jobs of 2030 project, the Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan predicts we will need rewilders to undo the destruction to the countryside caused by people, factories, cars and intensive one-crop farming. These workers will be responsible for removing fences to restore flight paths for birds, replacing roads with forests and reintroducing native species.

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Online threats are only getting more and more sophisticated as technology continues to advance. Kayne McGladrey, Director of Security and Information Technology at Pensar Development, says organisations will need to study the tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of each cyber-attacker in order to build a defensive strategy to contain them. “The role of the threat attribution specialist will be to find the common elements across various types of digital threats,” he says, and then to figure out whether it’s a known hacker or a new threat, and finally to inform the organisation’s security operations centre on how best to defend against future attacks.

Even today, we’re constantly hunting for ways to look and feel younger. In 50 to 100 years, you may actually be able to hire someone to prolong your youth—and your life! Ira Pastor, CEO of life sciences company Bioquark Inc., says that progress in bio-medicine will allow us to control a majority of chronic degenerative diseases and reverse brain death caused by injury. He says we will likely “see lifespans in the 150-year to 200-plus-year range, with substantial health span extensions, hence the period of time you will be youthful will be as long, if not longer, than current lifespans.”

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Source: RD.com