Find a role involving creativity, problem solving or caring – or go the way of the knocker-up of the pre smartphone age
How did people wake up in time for work before alarm clocks existed? Today we’d miss the train without our smartphones, but there was a time when a person known as a knocker-up would tap on your window with a truncheon – and unlike the snooze button, he wouldn’t leave until you got up.
If Charles Dickens were to scour today’s jobs pages he would find many of the professions unrecognisable. Technology has given birth to new career paths, but some jobs have disappeared as machines do them faster. A study by Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne claims that computerisation puts nearly half of jobs into the high-risk category, which means they could be redundant within 10- to 20 years.
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