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i still tell nieces and nephews who are smart to get an engineering degree so they have a base in first principle thinking founded on physics that doesn't change.

AI will be used in these jobs but won't take them away.

I tell the more physical minded relatives to join oil and gas companies laying pipe and working the fields in midland or get a master electrician cert so they can be a high earning tradesman.

AI isn't going to take physical jobs for a long time.

Most people with money struggles should excel in community college first before transitioning for the final two years in state school.

no one should start in a private school u less they are the most academically driven kid you have ever met. the risk isn't priced correctly.

took much doom about the future of AI. be smart and learn things that don't change that are based on physics.

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waxwing 6d ago

I don't necessarily disagree but you *can* make an opposite, or at least different, case: subjects based on physics, math and related are a lot more exposed to the possibility of AI-made redundancy, than services jobs (so like your oil and gas example, but think of all the things like medical and educational 'care' expertise). I think maybe the most exposed to danger are in the "middle" between extremes: call it "office work" perhaps.

Jay 6d ago

Tying the way I think to how physical systems work is the most important outcome of an education and early career in engineering. I may be biased, but an engineering mindset will take you much farther in any other field than if you pursued it directly, imo, because the way you think is grounded in physical reality.

Byzantine 6d ago

yeah the engineering mindset of logic and measured results is the greatest training. some get it by studying logic and philosophy or a biological science but it is lost in most degrees that just teach a set of rules and don't ask why the rules exist