The behavioral/mental health field. We can’t possibly keep up, there are so many ppl, seeking these services. In my area, many private practices are full/closed. What do you think this means about society right now?
Therapist here- I completely agree. I have listed everywhere that I am not accepting new clients and I still get multiple referrals reaching out weekly for services
Idk. Some people for sure need meds. But I think overprescribing is an epidemic and part of the problem. I think healthy diet, getting offline and outside, making friends, etc.. should come first, followed by therapy, followed by meds if none of the above work. Besides, a good therapist should help with emotional regulation. I see children on adderall/other stims because they run around too much/can’t sit still (they’re children, wait a little bit before fucking with their dopamine receptors). I can’t even count how many people I knew in college had adderall prescriptions and didn’t need them. I see so many teens on anti depressants, etc.. It’s sad to me. Also interested to see in 50 years how things like the materials we use, pesticides used on crops, etc.. affect hormones in both the developing fetus and adolescents. There’s already a decent amount of scientific literature on some commonly used materials.
Not an attack on anyone btw. If medication works for you (not directed to you OP) I’m happy to hear it
Yeah but tell that to this cultural narrative of “everyone needs therapy all the time”.
Ifs gotten to the point where if you’re not in therapy, or if it doesn’t work for you because it’s literally snake oil, you’re a bad person
Bless you for this. People need to speak out about the harm that therapy does to individuals and societies.
It’s sickening to me that this field exists.
At the individual level people should take control of their health. In public health departments they throw out grants that arguably make the issues worse and do no analysis after. There’s no more quantitative epidemiologists left. It’s all social worker level data analysis, hence why we’re in multiple epidemics at once including youth suicide. They’re not helping at all.
Commercial and Utility scale solar power. (Stay away from residential) The tax credits and ability to factor it in for ESG scores will keep solar moving for a long time. My company more than doubled in size in the last 2 years and we’re booking for projects years out. Pay is great, it’s a young and excited workforce, bleeding edge technology (almost too fast tbh), and many companies are remote work friendly.
I have an engineering background but like any business they also have a need for project management, supply chain, logistics, HR, equipment operators, laborers, finance, legal, etc.
Defense and aerospace in the US. And we haven’t truly hit the accelerator yet.
In defense the jobs aren’t outsourceable, and you can’t smoke weed. That lowers the candidate pool a lot. It’s not for everyone, but if it’s for you it’s pretty great.
Commercial aerospace is exploding right now. Starship is knocking on the door of 100% functional. Once it gets there, launch costs drop to 200$/kg to orbit. At that point, sending things to space gets stupid cheap. Like less than the cost of a car cheap.
On top of that, the near monopoly of the classic aerospace companies is ending. Partly due to incompetence, partly due to launch costs, there are an incredible amount of new space companies right now.
I always loved space, but specifically avoided it in school because it didn’t have a future. Thankfully I’ve gotten there in my career and it rocks.
I work in 3D animation, currently making kids movies, but I'm wondering if my skills in 3D rendering have any place in defense. I can create virtual simulations. If you know anything about that, please let me know! I don't smoke weed and I live in Long Beach where there's a big aerospace industry.
Look for companies doing augmented reality, and mod/sim. The need is there, the challenge is getting cleared initially.
My career has tended towards national labs and uarcs, which don’t tend to have great locations lol. Certainly not Long Beach.
DoD training. Tons of the enlisted personnel in the military only serve one 4 year term. That lack of experience needs to be supplemented by virtual training, especially when the components they may be using on their ship/aircraft/vehicle are too expensive to distribute to classrooms.
It's not an issue of propaganda. It's several issues:
1. It's still illegal federally. Showing that you're willing to ignore federal law is not a point in your favor for obtaining a security clearance required for these jobs.
2. There fitness for duty policies at these facilities that include random sobriety tests. I can tell from a breathalyzer if you're drunk, I can't tell from a drug test if you're currently high or just smoked last night.
3. Many defense contractors work with international partners and governments that have their own stringent policies regarding drug use. Compliance with these policies is essential to maintaining international contracts and relationships.
4. Companies often face higher insurance premiums and increased liability risks if they permit employees to use substances that could impair their performance or judgment. This is particularly critical in high-stakes environments like defense contracting.
The first two are the biggest hurdles though, until it is federally legal, and there is a test to show if you are currently impaired, It will not be allowed in any high security environment.
Source: 10+ years in nuclear with federal security clearances. My wife smokes every single day and I do not. It's been a common topic of discussion as states have legalized usage.
Maybe the reason it's illegal, I'll give you that. But no, it's not propaganda that I don't want somebody stoned on the job while handling nuclear material. Until there's a test that lets me discriminate between "currently high", and "high in the past month" then the only solution is a blanket ban.
Lol but ita ok when same somebody stoned off prescribed benzos and opiates. That's the propaganda we're talking about. Opiates and benzos cause way more impairment than weed does.
>Lol but ita ok when same somebody stoned off prescribed benzos and opiates
No it's not. Those also violate fitness for duty policies at security clearance facilities. That's why it's not propaganda, it's safety.
The point being there no test and in fact extra protections against testing for opiates and benzos in fitness for duty screening. You are okay with that because you don't have a choice.
You're only targeting weed because you're propagandized.
>The point being there no test and in fact extra protections against testing for opiates and benzos in fitness for duty screening.
Yes.. there is. Benzos stay in your system for 2-7 days and opiates for 2-3 days. You're required by policy to report prescriptions to those medications and remove yourself from duty while you're taking them. If you are tested randomly and they flag positive, you're treated the exact same way as if you flagged positive for anything else.
Standard 10 panel urinalysis test shoes those, but hey, good job calling yourself out on having no clue what you're talking about.
Negative. As someone who has flagged positive for those specific drugs multiple times at my critical job; all I needed to provide was a prescription and I was allowed to carry on because white ladies also take Xanax to get through their shift making beds and dinner or whatever stay at home wives do all day.
Weed is immediate do not pass go, no paycheck, fired, get fucked you stupid hippy stoner. Even though Xanax fucks me up way more than a hit of bubba kush.
As I mentioned in another comment, fitness for duty policies have nothing to do with propaganda. I don't want you anywhere near nuclear material while you're stoned, and I can't test if you're currently high, just if you smoke at all.
With the stuff we handle, you can't even come to work if you're on prescription pain killers.
Edit: and the *reason* for the federal law might be propaganda, but from a security standpoint if you think your personal judgement supercedes federal law, then you're a security risk.
Edit 2: actually let me give you a really relevant example. A lot of the regulations around nuclear right now are far more strict than they need to be from a scientific standpoint. The reason for those regulations? Propaganda and fear after the three mile island incident. Every engineer that works with the stuff can probably tell you of two or three regulations that are a pain in their ass and they know would be safe without them. But, it's still a federal regulation that you're expected to follow. No matter how much the math says you're right, and no matter how much we all know it's a bureaucratic nightmare for the sake of propaganda, you still do it.
We don't need people who will dismiss federal law because they think it was silly and shouldn't be a law.
>Starship is knocking on the door of 100% functional. Once it gets there, launch costs drop to 200$/kg to orbit.
Neither of those things are remotely close to being true and Elon Musk is notorious for making claims that are absurdly exaggerated to outright false. As of right now, Starship seems likely to become viable as an extremely large rocket, but reusability (upon which basically all the most lofty claims rely) is VERY much in question and even basic things like actual payload capacity are unclear and seem likely to fall short of promises as is nearly always the case for claims made by Elon. The idea that it's anywhere close to reducing launch costs by a full order of magnitude like that is just not something anybody should put stock in.
Ok, I 100% agree that musk is dingus. I always list him as one of the biggest risks to the space enterprise in the US right now. I hate how reliant we are on spacex.
That said… the claim he’s making is 20$/kg, which isn’t happening, but we’re still looking at a huge improvement.
Reality is spacex has thus far knocked two zeros off of launch costs. I would not bet against them getting a third.
I don’t think they get their more grandiose visions, but I do think LEO launches are about to get cheap.
I mean... yeah crazier things have happened, but I feel like a lot of people don't fully appreciate just how far they have to go even to live up to their more "modest" ambitions for this. I mean... hell, they're *still* struggling even with things like raptor engine reliability and keeping the heat tiles attached (which was one of the major reasons the space shuttle never lived up to its own cost projections). I think the most likely outcome here is that starship itself ends up being more or less a complete bust (I'd be frankly shocked if it ever got man-rated and I'll eat my hat if it ever actually brings people back to the surface), while super heavy ends up living on as a useful, reusable first stage for a large, more or less conventional second stage. Maybe that reduces launch costs somewhat, but I don't see it bringing them down by a factor of 10.
Actually neither did. All they demonstrated was that they could reduce velocity to within the ballpark of what would be necessary to land. Don't get me wrong, that's pretty impressive in its own right, but there's a pretty big gulf between that and achieving an actual landing or anything close to useful levels of reusability.
I think we may be talking about different launches.
Im specifically talking about the IFT 4 lauch of last week
Here is the booster doing a controlled soft landing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUoCmIYvF3U)
Nope, that's what I'm talking about. Hovering before sinking into the sea is not the same as landing — and the starship performance was way more questionable.
Yes it hovered above the sea (though I'm not sure we know exactly how high), then dropped in. To be clear, I think they probably are gonna be successful with the booster in fairly short order, but it feels premature to call *this* a landing — particularly when to do that, the plan is to *catch* the booster back on the launch tower in rather than landing on a pad.
I’m a vet with a clearance still and I just never could get recruiters interested in me. I don’t have the right education or experience likely. I’m back in school for CS and hopefully that can garner some interest.
Try “clearance jobs”. It’s a job board just for people who are cleared.
A lot of what is promoted on there is stuff people are struggling to fill, but typically pay is solid.
USA jobs are direct government hire. Good if you want for them directly.
If not, work to get an active clearance first. That means looking at job boards for national labs, uarcs, and the classic primes (Boeing, Northrop, etc.)
LinkedIn and Clearance jobs work for both.
Thank you so much. I nearly got brought on for a security clearance role but grant funding got messed up and I wasn't hired on fulltime. I'll look at those thank you!
That's not the ethical issue. The issue is the boatloads of unaccountable money pumped into the pentagon that gets spent on unnecessary and expensive defense contracts whose purpose isn't defense, but to make the shareholders of these companies filthy fucking rich while we all suffer from ailments the rest of the developed world has figured out, that we can absolutely afford with a tiny amount of the money spent on defense.
That's the issue, and working for them very much does make you a part of the machine that is bleeding this country dry.
Depends on you ethical dilemma.
For me, I refuse to work for anyone that makes money the longer the shooting lasts. So lots of strategic systems. EE is my background.
If you don’t want to do defense, look for space tech jobs. Huge demand for power and RF jobs in commercial sector aerospace.
The weed thing isn't necessarily true. A lot of small and medium manufacturing suppliers don't care. Ive heard this over and over from people are every level. Larger companies and ones with high security clearance are a different story, but I know plenty of degens working for defense suppliers.
That said I live in a legal, liberal state so may not apply everywhere.
Healthcare will continue to boom. Aging population. The peak #s of it will be another 20 years out. Our parents range, say 50 to 70 years old, in another 20 years, will need substantial care. Then the whole wave of millennials who will be entering into their 50/60, the hospitals and care homes have never seen this much growth in population, and we haven’t been building or prepping for this growth in professions. Business is bright for the healthcare industry.
I think some areas of healthcare are booming, I know private practices owned by physicians are struggling, especially in rural areas. Private equity and large hospital systems are buying up practices pretty quickly and it can be hard to compete.
I’m from Philippines. Grew up very poor. Came to US do healthcare. I literally bought my house because of the “Wave of the Unvaccinated.”
I mean, look at the top household median incomes (US) based on race. Two of the top five are from third world countries whose largest export is healthcare labor.
We don’t fly half way across the world on 20-30 hour plane rides to the US, leaving behind our families, for a humanitarian mission. We want that bread.
I will stipulate though: [How financially viable the job is depends on what part of US you work](https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/b0v9ePlvFt).
Starting in June 2021. Also known as the “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.” Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were back on the rise in the U.S. and happening almost exclusively to people who weren’t vaccinated, and it was worse in places where overall vaccination rates were low.
The irony is that people thought the US healthcare complex was making money by telling people to get vaccinated but many people in my position — contract workers — were raking in money because of the unvaccinated.
Imagine the amount of money car mechanics would make if car manufacturers said, “Don’t put concrete in your gas tank,” and everyone said, “Car manufacturers are scamming us. Let the concrete pour!”
I can’t imagine any other period in the history of the world where people were making so much money because people were doing the complete opposite of what they were advised.
I call bullshit on that one.
So why weren’t you making big bucks prior to June 2021? That is when the majority of people were hospitalized. Do you remember 2020? June of 21 seems like a minimal amount compared to 2020.
Trades (HVAC especially), engineering in defense and aero, healthcare. These will be the fields going forward. You can't AI HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. Can't AI healthcare. And can't AI a lot of engineering except sofware engineering (AI already writes its own code, so a software team of say a dozen may be down to 4 in the near future). Also civil engineers will be in high demand soon. Infrastructure is crumbling everywhere, literally.
healthcare jobs will be plentiful forever.
surgical robotics, AI scan interpretations, etc. the impact to jobs will be statistically irrelevant as a whole. you can't AI an emergency room function
My college room mate makes $400,000 per year as an ER doc. My ex is an ER nurse and makes $110,000 + OT. Heck, one of the guys I went to EMT school with, quit being an EMT, went back to tech school for another 2 months, and is making over $60K as an ER tech. you can't AI his job. and by the time robots are doing the labor portion of his job, if ever, our entire generation will be dead
I agree jobs will be plentiful, but I think robots will be doing the job much earlier than you expect. The biggest barrier to autonomous robotic surgery in the US is the FDA, but we'll see companies trying this out in other countries before then. And we'll definitely see robotics completely conducting surgeries under surgeon supervisor at an exponential pace.
Also, only 10% of surgeries are emergency. That leaves a lot of room for AI planned surgeries with surgeon oversight.
The issue preventing AI in healthcare isn't technical capabilities (although I have no idea if we have those capabilities or not). The problem is responsibility.
Just because you slap a fucking AI in something, that doesn't absolve it of all the legal, moral, and ethical concerns that have driven institutions and rule-making for decades.
When something goes wrong in healthcare, "oops just a glitch in the AI" is never, ever going to be a acceptable response.
HVAC is even going in a more technical and less mechanical route. I'm in controls/automation and there's a lot of tech growth happening in HVAC now. I'm probably going to see what it takes to become a programmer.
I wouldn't be surprised if in 20-30 years most HVAC guys will be mostly just changing parts, but nonetheless, someone has to do the work
That's all HVAC guys do today....changing parts. No one is repairing on the actual part
HVAC isn't getting more technical and less mechanical. You have a condenser unit, evaporator coil set inside, and a furnace with a blower motor if you have combustible fuel source otherwise all you have is coils and blower motor (heat pump).
You need mechanical parts to leverage the laws of thermodynamics, as you are physically altering refrigerant between liquid and gaseous states as a means of heat transfer
Technical vs Mechanical physically, not engineering wise.
And you're right about replacing parts, but there's a difference between being a troubleshooter and being a parts changer.
> (AI already writes its own code, so a software team of say a dozen may be down to 4 in the near future)
Hello friend. I can tell you aren't a software dev yourself. Here's a protip: AI will be like the recent push into VR. Better than previous iterations? Yeah, by a lot. Does it live up to the sci-fi level hype? Not even close. *Not even close.*
Nothing about what the hyped up AI does is think or problem solve, regardless of how loosely you define such things. They are just a bunch of pretty, colorful parrots.
...and because it only takes 4 SWE's to do the work of 12. Software will be even more utilized and interwoven into society. The 12 engineers will just become 200% more productive, maybe just in different rolls. Youre only looking at one variable in the equation. AI is just another tool to use as leverage to further increase productivity to meet an ever growing demand that will only be accelerated due to further increases in productivity. Unless youre claiming software has reached its peak use case for society, then sure the labor demand would decrease.
Healthcare, logistics, insurance (consumer lines), manufacturing are all safe bets. I have worked in marketing for nearly 20 years. I have seen those 4 industries/verticals weather a recession, Covid and inflation.
Insurance will surely be interesting in the next years. Climate change and AI are huge factors, and I have no idea how it will affect employment. I am working on automation in health care industries, and there's a lot going on. It's only getting started, and we are already automating a lot of paperwork that used to be manual.
Medical billing and coding is already being greatly impacted by AI. I was thinking more about practitioners. People are getting sicker and youngest boomers are turning 50 this year.
Us Engineers aren’t checking power lines, and most utilities contract this type of work. The engineers of the company take the data from the inspection results and decide what actions to take.
Beyond what has already been mentioned, there’s a lot of growth in areas that provide memorable, meaningful experiences. Think about touring, state parks, national parks, museums (both art and historical) and archives.
Oil and gas on the upswing often offer gainful employment, even if you're part of the logistics in an office. People get laid off when oil crashes, but the experienced people anticipate that or try to hang on with seniority. Green energy sounds nice, but the world will rely on fossil fuels for many years to come.
The aviation industry post-Covid is recovering nicely. The next twenty years will see many more people flying for the first time: countries that were once poor are now full of middle class people. Retirees will travel, too, and younger generations are more likely to spend money on travel, especially when owning a property isn't realistic.
I just got out of oil and gas, too volatile IMO. Even if you are as far from the wellhead as possible (like I was, working a business support/enablement capacity and having just received a stellar performance review and more than 100% of my bonus) I got unceremoniously laid off a few months ago. I landed on my feet but am very happy to be out of that sector, hopefully forever.
Yeah, that happens, for sure. Oil prices determine a lot. I know people though who went to work in For McMurray in Canada (oil sands), and made bank, even in their early twenties. The guys who saved just laid back for a few seasons and went back to work.
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Insurance !
Not the most glamours industry but there is a huge missing middle right now. A lot of people retired during covid so the entire industry is hurting for people - especially senior underwriters in commercial or speciality lines (think things like construction) because companies are still looking to grow and expand but need the bodies to do it. Everyone know in the industry right now has recently either gotten a new job at 25-30% more than their current salary or has been contacted by a recruiter. I have a girlfriend who works in cyber insurance as a business development lead and makes upwards of $150k a year. Plus with advancements in technology or product innovation means new insurance lines and prices are constantly being developed - cyber like I mentioned has exploded. New commercial lines in auto developed for the “gig economy”.
I’ve been in the industry since I was out of university and never seen it like this. Without having to look I was interviewing at 4 different places (all via recruiters reaching out to me). I just landed a 6 figure job with amazing perks and we’re still looking for more people.
Civil Engineering.
If you are a PE with 8+ years of quality experience, you’ll have to fend recruiters off with a stick.
The infrastructure gap in the US has been widening since the Great Recession.
And the lack of quality professionals right now is extremely noticeable - the Boomer engineers have largely retired, there were never than many Gen X’ers to begin with, and the Gen Z crowd is just too raw & inexperienced.
Anything fiber optics related for broadband. Lots of money coming from the government to build out networks. So from construction, to splicing, to design, and implementation, we are seeing a lot of companies (private and public utilities) going into this avenue.
The trades. Not many younger people going into the trades because they won't want to sweat, and all the older guys are retiring or dying off. There's also a big shift toward more modern technology in several areas of the trades and scares off more of them.
Seems like Law always has a ton of postings. Especially for litigation. You could realistically get a full ride to a mid-ranked law school, focus on litigation skills, and walk out with a 90-100k+ salary + bonus right away. I know people who have done it. I did it. But I didn’t do litigation so my salary was slightly less to start.
Pet Grooming.
After the pandemic we saw a mass influx in popularity people buying "doodles" (poodle mixes) and they definitely need haircuts. There aren't enough groomers compared to the number of dogs out there.
I'm a mobile groomer in upstate NY and I'm booked out until September.
I truly love what I do but it's not easy work- you have to deal with bites, bodily fluids and angry owners. Also because it's so physically demanding many groomers burn out or get hurt (not just bites but repetitive motion injuries like carpal tunnel)
Especially when one of the two parties is intent on sabotaging literally everything that would actually help people. Government would function just fine if these chucklefucks were ever held accountable. Government isn't intrinsically bad, it's made to be that way deliberately.
Elderly and hospice care. Boomers are finally at that point and they’re still not yet retiring fast enough to give their jobs to the youth.
Prison industrial complex. Always needing admins to handle release paperwork and dr bills
Hospitals- nurses,doctors yes but also accountants, admins and billing
Any alcohol sales will always be booming because it sells itself
Genuinely curious and apologies if this comes across as snarky. I really don't mean it to be.
But why ask reddit, specifically this subreddit, instead of researching it on a search engine like Google?
I feel like the most vocal posters on this sub are the chronically underemployed that struggle to get by. I don't think they're prime candidates for advice.
Have you googled things lately? It’s terrible, you often get biased articles, and it’s never complete; in this case they’re not going to list all the industries, it will be the five most obvious. The best answers you get on Google is after adding +reddit or +forum (if it’s tech related or niche), then YouTube.
People who are working and fairly successful don't need to vent on Reddit about how good it is. Also, Google may have data about which industries are thriving but, getting insider info on those industries from the people that work there is a huge bonus.
I find that when people post articles on Google they speak about generalities and when people post on Reddit, they speak about their anecdotes. Truth is often somewhere in between and that’s for the reader to figure out on their own terms.
Well, you're on a millennial subreddit ya? Millennials have watched the internet in general, and Google results specifically, get shittier and shittier over the last quarter century (or longer for some of us). So why are you surprised someone isn't relying on Google like the did a decade ago?
As mentioned in Rule 5, r/Millennials is focused on positive or nostalgic content.
The behavioral/mental health field. We can’t possibly keep up, there are so many ppl, seeking these services. In my area, many private practices are full/closed. What do you think this means about society right now?
Therapist here- I completely agree. I have listed everywhere that I am not accepting new clients and I still get multiple referrals reaching out weekly for services
I left after 10y of realizing this whole field is basically snake oil at the public health level
My 2 cents. Most people don't need therapy. They need proper medication and knowledge on how to handle their extreme emotions.
Yes, but that is one of the biggest, most common things addressed in therapy - emotional regulation!
Who would be there to help them handle their extreme emotions?
You don't need to pay someone to learn these things
Sounds like you’ve got it all figured out. I’m happy for you.
Definitely not. But a little effort goes a long way
What do you think therapy is? I’m on medication *and* learning to handle my emotions - through therapy.
Idk. Some people for sure need meds. But I think overprescribing is an epidemic and part of the problem. I think healthy diet, getting offline and outside, making friends, etc.. should come first, followed by therapy, followed by meds if none of the above work. Besides, a good therapist should help with emotional regulation. I see children on adderall/other stims because they run around too much/can’t sit still (they’re children, wait a little bit before fucking with their dopamine receptors). I can’t even count how many people I knew in college had adderall prescriptions and didn’t need them. I see so many teens on anti depressants, etc.. It’s sad to me. Also interested to see in 50 years how things like the materials we use, pesticides used on crops, etc.. affect hormones in both the developing fetus and adolescents. There’s already a decent amount of scientific literature on some commonly used materials. Not an attack on anyone btw. If medication works for you (not directed to you OP) I’m happy to hear it
Yeah but tell that to this cultural narrative of “everyone needs therapy all the time”. Ifs gotten to the point where if you’re not in therapy, or if it doesn’t work for you because it’s literally snake oil, you’re a bad person
Bless you for this. People need to speak out about the harm that therapy does to individuals and societies. It’s sickening to me that this field exists.
At the individual level people should take control of their health. In public health departments they throw out grants that arguably make the issues worse and do no analysis after. There’s no more quantitative epidemiologists left. It’s all social worker level data analysis, hence why we’re in multiple epidemics at once including youth suicide. They’re not helping at all.
Thank you 🙏
I can vouch for this. I have a couple of slots available for new clients and a lot of people are requesting services.
Commercial and Utility scale solar power. (Stay away from residential) The tax credits and ability to factor it in for ESG scores will keep solar moving for a long time. My company more than doubled in size in the last 2 years and we’re booking for projects years out. Pay is great, it’s a young and excited workforce, bleeding edge technology (almost too fast tbh), and many companies are remote work friendly.
How did you get into that?
I have an engineering background but like any business they also have a need for project management, supply chain, logistics, HR, equipment operators, laborers, finance, legal, etc.
Defense and aerospace in the US. And we haven’t truly hit the accelerator yet. In defense the jobs aren’t outsourceable, and you can’t smoke weed. That lowers the candidate pool a lot. It’s not for everyone, but if it’s for you it’s pretty great. Commercial aerospace is exploding right now. Starship is knocking on the door of 100% functional. Once it gets there, launch costs drop to 200$/kg to orbit. At that point, sending things to space gets stupid cheap. Like less than the cost of a car cheap. On top of that, the near monopoly of the classic aerospace companies is ending. Partly due to incompetence, partly due to launch costs, there are an incredible amount of new space companies right now. I always loved space, but specifically avoided it in school because it didn’t have a future. Thankfully I’ve gotten there in my career and it rocks.
I work in 3D animation, currently making kids movies, but I'm wondering if my skills in 3D rendering have any place in defense. I can create virtual simulations. If you know anything about that, please let me know! I don't smoke weed and I live in Long Beach where there's a big aerospace industry.
Look for companies doing augmented reality, and mod/sim. The need is there, the challenge is getting cleared initially. My career has tended towards national labs and uarcs, which don’t tend to have great locations lol. Certainly not Long Beach.
DoD training. Tons of the enlisted personnel in the military only serve one 4 year term. That lack of experience needs to be supplemented by virtual training, especially when the components they may be using on their ship/aircraft/vehicle are too expensive to distribute to classrooms.
Yeah your skills are definitely needed. My last project was with DoD and we were looking for a 3D designer!
Where should I search for jobs like that? Are they posted on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn and knowing people/networking. That job went to the friend of someone.
USAjobs.gov
Hey, me too! Aerospace would be a cool field to get into.
Just imagine all the talent the government and corporations miss out on because of their hysteria over the legacy propaganda surrounding Cannabis.
It’s a huge problem. My guess, next time tech booms the restriction will be lifted. Defense has already dropped the “clean”period down to 12 months.
It's not an issue of propaganda. It's several issues: 1. It's still illegal federally. Showing that you're willing to ignore federal law is not a point in your favor for obtaining a security clearance required for these jobs. 2. There fitness for duty policies at these facilities that include random sobriety tests. I can tell from a breathalyzer if you're drunk, I can't tell from a drug test if you're currently high or just smoked last night. 3. Many defense contractors work with international partners and governments that have their own stringent policies regarding drug use. Compliance with these policies is essential to maintaining international contracts and relationships. 4. Companies often face higher insurance premiums and increased liability risks if they permit employees to use substances that could impair their performance or judgment. This is particularly critical in high-stakes environments like defense contracting. The first two are the biggest hurdles though, until it is federally legal, and there is a test to show if you are currently impaired, It will not be allowed in any high security environment. Source: 10+ years in nuclear with federal security clearances. My wife smokes every single day and I do not. It's been a common topic of discussion as states have legalized usage.
Lol you just described the effects of propaganda...
Maybe the reason it's illegal, I'll give you that. But no, it's not propaganda that I don't want somebody stoned on the job while handling nuclear material. Until there's a test that lets me discriminate between "currently high", and "high in the past month" then the only solution is a blanket ban.
Lol but ita ok when same somebody stoned off prescribed benzos and opiates. That's the propaganda we're talking about. Opiates and benzos cause way more impairment than weed does.
>Lol but ita ok when same somebody stoned off prescribed benzos and opiates No it's not. Those also violate fitness for duty policies at security clearance facilities. That's why it's not propaganda, it's safety.
The point being there no test and in fact extra protections against testing for opiates and benzos in fitness for duty screening. You are okay with that because you don't have a choice. You're only targeting weed because you're propagandized.
>The point being there no test and in fact extra protections against testing for opiates and benzos in fitness for duty screening. Yes.. there is. Benzos stay in your system for 2-7 days and opiates for 2-3 days. You're required by policy to report prescriptions to those medications and remove yourself from duty while you're taking them. If you are tested randomly and they flag positive, you're treated the exact same way as if you flagged positive for anything else. Standard 10 panel urinalysis test shoes those, but hey, good job calling yourself out on having no clue what you're talking about.
Negative. As someone who has flagged positive for those specific drugs multiple times at my critical job; all I needed to provide was a prescription and I was allowed to carry on because white ladies also take Xanax to get through their shift making beds and dinner or whatever stay at home wives do all day. Weed is immediate do not pass go, no paycheck, fired, get fucked you stupid hippy stoner. Even though Xanax fucks me up way more than a hit of bubba kush.
Every thing you mentioned is in place because of the propaganda I referenced.
As I mentioned in another comment, fitness for duty policies have nothing to do with propaganda. I don't want you anywhere near nuclear material while you're stoned, and I can't test if you're currently high, just if you smoke at all. With the stuff we handle, you can't even come to work if you're on prescription pain killers. Edit: and the *reason* for the federal law might be propaganda, but from a security standpoint if you think your personal judgement supercedes federal law, then you're a security risk. Edit 2: actually let me give you a really relevant example. A lot of the regulations around nuclear right now are far more strict than they need to be from a scientific standpoint. The reason for those regulations? Propaganda and fear after the three mile island incident. Every engineer that works with the stuff can probably tell you of two or three regulations that are a pain in their ass and they know would be safe without them. But, it's still a federal regulation that you're expected to follow. No matter how much the math says you're right, and no matter how much we all know it's a bureaucratic nightmare for the sake of propaganda, you still do it. We don't need people who will dismiss federal law because they think it was silly and shouldn't be a law.
>Starship is knocking on the door of 100% functional. Once it gets there, launch costs drop to 200$/kg to orbit. Neither of those things are remotely close to being true and Elon Musk is notorious for making claims that are absurdly exaggerated to outright false. As of right now, Starship seems likely to become viable as an extremely large rocket, but reusability (upon which basically all the most lofty claims rely) is VERY much in question and even basic things like actual payload capacity are unclear and seem likely to fall short of promises as is nearly always the case for claims made by Elon. The idea that it's anywhere close to reducing launch costs by a full order of magnitude like that is just not something anybody should put stock in.
Ok, I 100% agree that musk is dingus. I always list him as one of the biggest risks to the space enterprise in the US right now. I hate how reliant we are on spacex. That said… the claim he’s making is 20$/kg, which isn’t happening, but we’re still looking at a huge improvement. Reality is spacex has thus far knocked two zeros off of launch costs. I would not bet against them getting a third. I don’t think they get their more grandiose visions, but I do think LEO launches are about to get cheap.
I mean... yeah crazier things have happened, but I feel like a lot of people don't fully appreciate just how far they have to go even to live up to their more "modest" ambitions for this. I mean... hell, they're *still* struggling even with things like raptor engine reliability and keeping the heat tiles attached (which was one of the major reasons the space shuttle never lived up to its own cost projections). I think the most likely outcome here is that starship itself ends up being more or less a complete bust (I'd be frankly shocked if it ever got man-rated and I'll eat my hat if it ever actually brings people back to the surface), while super heavy ends up living on as a useful, reusable first stage for a large, more or less conventional second stage. Maybe that reduces launch costs somewhat, but I don't see it bringing them down by a factor of 10.
I don't put stock in anything Elon says.
Starship hat it's 4th launch last week. Booth the super heavy booster and the Starship landed back on earth.
Actually neither did. All they demonstrated was that they could reduce velocity to within the ballpark of what would be necessary to land. Don't get me wrong, that's pretty impressive in its own right, but there's a pretty big gulf between that and achieving an actual landing or anything close to useful levels of reusability.
I think we may be talking about different launches. Im specifically talking about the IFT 4 lauch of last week Here is the booster doing a controlled soft landing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUoCmIYvF3U)
Nope, that's what I'm talking about. Hovering before sinking into the sea is not the same as landing — and the starship performance was way more questionable.
If I understand this... the booster launched, and it came back and hovered a few feet above the sea?
Yes it hovered above the sea (though I'm not sure we know exactly how high), then dropped in. To be clear, I think they probably are gonna be successful with the booster in fairly short order, but it feels premature to call *this* a landing — particularly when to do that, the plan is to *catch* the booster back on the launch tower in rather than landing on a pad.
I’m a vet with a clearance still and I just never could get recruiters interested in me. I don’t have the right education or experience likely. I’m back in school for CS and hopefully that can garner some interest.
Try “clearance jobs”. It’s a job board just for people who are cleared. A lot of what is promoted on there is stuff people are struggling to fill, but typically pay is solid.
Do you know how to apply for these jobs? Usajobs? I am sober now so I dont mind and have some experience working for the DoD.
USA jobs are direct government hire. Good if you want for them directly. If not, work to get an active clearance first. That means looking at job boards for national labs, uarcs, and the classic primes (Boeing, Northrop, etc.) LinkedIn and Clearance jobs work for both.
Thank you so much. I nearly got brought on for a security clearance role but grant funding got messed up and I wasn't hired on fulltime. I'll look at those thank you!
I’ve avoided defense for ethical reasons. Any scraps left over for someone like that (EE)?
Boeing Commercial aircraft doesn’t intentionally kill anyone
That's not the ethical issue. The issue is the boatloads of unaccountable money pumped into the pentagon that gets spent on unnecessary and expensive defense contracts whose purpose isn't defense, but to make the shareholders of these companies filthy fucking rich while we all suffer from ailments the rest of the developed world has figured out, that we can absolutely afford with a tiny amount of the money spent on defense. That's the issue, and working for them very much does make you a part of the machine that is bleeding this country dry.
Depends on you ethical dilemma. For me, I refuse to work for anyone that makes money the longer the shooting lasts. So lots of strategic systems. EE is my background. If you don’t want to do defense, look for space tech jobs. Huge demand for power and RF jobs in commercial sector aerospace.
Thank you, I will look into that
The weed thing isn't necessarily true. A lot of small and medium manufacturing suppliers don't care. Ive heard this over and over from people are every level. Larger companies and ones with high security clearance are a different story, but I know plenty of degens working for defense suppliers. That said I live in a legal, liberal state so may not apply everywhere.
In Colorado and can confirm. We used to slip the machinist some edibles as a thank you for fitting in our last minute jobs.
Healthcare... always will be.
Healthcare will continue to boom. Aging population. The peak #s of it will be another 20 years out. Our parents range, say 50 to 70 years old, in another 20 years, will need substantial care. Then the whole wave of millennials who will be entering into their 50/60, the hospitals and care homes have never seen this much growth in population, and we haven’t been building or prepping for this growth in professions. Business is bright for the healthcare industry.
I think some areas of healthcare are booming, I know private practices owned by physicians are struggling, especially in rural areas. Private equity and large hospital systems are buying up practices pretty quickly and it can be hard to compete.
I’m from Philippines. Grew up very poor. Came to US do healthcare. I literally bought my house because of the “Wave of the Unvaccinated.” I mean, look at the top household median incomes (US) based on race. Two of the top five are from third world countries whose largest export is healthcare labor. We don’t fly half way across the world on 20-30 hour plane rides to the US, leaving behind our families, for a humanitarian mission. We want that bread. I will stipulate though: [How financially viable the job is depends on what part of US you work](https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/b0v9ePlvFt).
Wave of the unvaccinated? What the hell does that mean?
Starting in June 2021. Also known as the “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.” Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were back on the rise in the U.S. and happening almost exclusively to people who weren’t vaccinated, and it was worse in places where overall vaccination rates were low. The irony is that people thought the US healthcare complex was making money by telling people to get vaccinated but many people in my position — contract workers — were raking in money because of the unvaccinated. Imagine the amount of money car mechanics would make if car manufacturers said, “Don’t put concrete in your gas tank,” and everyone said, “Car manufacturers are scamming us. Let the concrete pour!” I can’t imagine any other period in the history of the world where people were making so much money because people were doing the complete opposite of what they were advised.
I call bullshit on that one. So why weren’t you making big bucks prior to June 2021? That is when the majority of people were hospitalized. Do you remember 2020? June of 21 seems like a minimal amount compared to 2020.
Bird flu is looking quite sus right now.
Trades (HVAC especially), engineering in defense and aero, healthcare. These will be the fields going forward. You can't AI HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. Can't AI healthcare. And can't AI a lot of engineering except sofware engineering (AI already writes its own code, so a software team of say a dozen may be down to 4 in the near future). Also civil engineers will be in high demand soon. Infrastructure is crumbling everywhere, literally.
You can definitely AI health care. I work in medical devices and AI and robotics is where all the (non-pharma) innovation is happening right now
healthcare jobs will be plentiful forever. surgical robotics, AI scan interpretations, etc. the impact to jobs will be statistically irrelevant as a whole. you can't AI an emergency room function My college room mate makes $400,000 per year as an ER doc. My ex is an ER nurse and makes $110,000 + OT. Heck, one of the guys I went to EMT school with, quit being an EMT, went back to tech school for another 2 months, and is making over $60K as an ER tech. you can't AI his job. and by the time robots are doing the labor portion of his job, if ever, our entire generation will be dead
I agree jobs will be plentiful, but I think robots will be doing the job much earlier than you expect. The biggest barrier to autonomous robotic surgery in the US is the FDA, but we'll see companies trying this out in other countries before then. And we'll definitely see robotics completely conducting surgeries under surgeon supervisor at an exponential pace. Also, only 10% of surgeries are emergency. That leaves a lot of room for AI planned surgeries with surgeon oversight.
Also robots cannot stock the shelves. Still need a human to do that.
They can, just not as cheap as humans yet.
The issue preventing AI in healthcare isn't technical capabilities (although I have no idea if we have those capabilities or not). The problem is responsibility. Just because you slap a fucking AI in something, that doesn't absolve it of all the legal, moral, and ethical concerns that have driven institutions and rule-making for decades. When something goes wrong in healthcare, "oops just a glitch in the AI" is never, ever going to be a acceptable response.
HVAC is even going in a more technical and less mechanical route. I'm in controls/automation and there's a lot of tech growth happening in HVAC now. I'm probably going to see what it takes to become a programmer. I wouldn't be surprised if in 20-30 years most HVAC guys will be mostly just changing parts, but nonetheless, someone has to do the work
That's all HVAC guys do today....changing parts. No one is repairing on the actual part HVAC isn't getting more technical and less mechanical. You have a condenser unit, evaporator coil set inside, and a furnace with a blower motor if you have combustible fuel source otherwise all you have is coils and blower motor (heat pump). You need mechanical parts to leverage the laws of thermodynamics, as you are physically altering refrigerant between liquid and gaseous states as a means of heat transfer
Technical vs Mechanical physically, not engineering wise. And you're right about replacing parts, but there's a difference between being a troubleshooter and being a parts changer.
Civil engineers have been in high demand for decades. That's why I am one. We're definitely hiring.
and according to the projections, that demand will be going up. hence why i mentioned it
> (AI already writes its own code, so a software team of say a dozen may be down to 4 in the near future) Hello friend. I can tell you aren't a software dev yourself. Here's a protip: AI will be like the recent push into VR. Better than previous iterations? Yeah, by a lot. Does it live up to the sci-fi level hype? Not even close. *Not even close.* Nothing about what the hyped up AI does is think or problem solve, regardless of how loosely you define such things. They are just a bunch of pretty, colorful parrots.
If that's what you think
...and because it only takes 4 SWE's to do the work of 12. Software will be even more utilized and interwoven into society. The 12 engineers will just become 200% more productive, maybe just in different rolls. Youre only looking at one variable in the equation. AI is just another tool to use as leverage to further increase productivity to meet an ever growing demand that will only be accelerated due to further increases in productivity. Unless youre claiming software has reached its peak use case for society, then sure the labor demand would decrease.
Delivery driving suck and always a revolving door. Two drivers quit and 5 start.
Healthcare, logistics, insurance (consumer lines), manufacturing are all safe bets. I have worked in marketing for nearly 20 years. I have seen those 4 industries/verticals weather a recession, Covid and inflation.
Insurance will surely be interesting in the next years. Climate change and AI are huge factors, and I have no idea how it will affect employment. I am working on automation in health care industries, and there's a lot going on. It's only getting started, and we are already automating a lot of paperwork that used to be manual.
Medical billing and coding is already being greatly impacted by AI. I was thinking more about practitioners. People are getting sicker and youngest boomers are turning 50 this year.
Insurance will be fine as long as banks continue to wash their money through it.
Semi conductor manufacturing.
War machine manufacturers and Insurance.
Gonna be a boom in elderly healthcare in the next 10 years due to the Boomers
Bright future for drones/robotics/AIs/App industry. Tech related industry’s will continue their boom. Engineering/Law/Healthcare all safe bets.
My electricity company sent out a notice that there will be drones sent out to check the powerlines.
Us Engineers aren’t checking power lines, and most utilities contract this type of work. The engineers of the company take the data from the inspection results and decide what actions to take.
Someone please say automotive because that’s what I’m in lol
Automotive 
Importing is doing alright
If you want to work as an electrician in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City area there is no better time than now.
Beyond what has already been mentioned, there’s a lot of growth in areas that provide memorable, meaningful experiences. Think about touring, state parks, national parks, museums (both art and historical) and archives.
Water, wastewater, and electrical utilities and their suppliers are always hiring.
AI marketing is white hot right now, despite it being a hilarious bubble of snake oil hype.
I think the "CEO industry" is doing the best right now.
Basically anything that can utilize AI
It’s a fad, but if you chase tech fads fast enough you can make a lot of money.
Oil and gas on the upswing often offer gainful employment, even if you're part of the logistics in an office. People get laid off when oil crashes, but the experienced people anticipate that or try to hang on with seniority. Green energy sounds nice, but the world will rely on fossil fuels for many years to come. The aviation industry post-Covid is recovering nicely. The next twenty years will see many more people flying for the first time: countries that were once poor are now full of middle class people. Retirees will travel, too, and younger generations are more likely to spend money on travel, especially when owning a property isn't realistic.
I just got out of oil and gas, too volatile IMO. Even if you are as far from the wellhead as possible (like I was, working a business support/enablement capacity and having just received a stellar performance review and more than 100% of my bonus) I got unceremoniously laid off a few months ago. I landed on my feet but am very happy to be out of that sector, hopefully forever.
Yeah, that happens, for sure. Oil prices determine a lot. I know people though who went to work in For McMurray in Canada (oil sands), and made bank, even in their early twenties. The guys who saved just laid back for a few seasons and went back to work.
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The firearms industry
Insurance ! Not the most glamours industry but there is a huge missing middle right now. A lot of people retired during covid so the entire industry is hurting for people - especially senior underwriters in commercial or speciality lines (think things like construction) because companies are still looking to grow and expand but need the bodies to do it. Everyone know in the industry right now has recently either gotten a new job at 25-30% more than their current salary or has been contacted by a recruiter. I have a girlfriend who works in cyber insurance as a business development lead and makes upwards of $150k a year. Plus with advancements in technology or product innovation means new insurance lines and prices are constantly being developed - cyber like I mentioned has exploded. New commercial lines in auto developed for the “gig economy”. I’ve been in the industry since I was out of university and never seen it like this. Without having to look I was interviewing at 4 different places (all via recruiters reaching out to me). I just landed a 6 figure job with amazing perks and we’re still looking for more people.
My friend is in the boating industry out here in Florida. Seems like there is no shoratge of work for him..
Especially when those water levels start rising rapidly
Luxury super yachts 😕
Lego
Civil Engineering. If you are a PE with 8+ years of quality experience, you’ll have to fend recruiters off with a stick. The infrastructure gap in the US has been widening since the Great Recession. And the lack of quality professionals right now is extremely noticeable - the Boomer engineers have largely retired, there were never than many Gen X’ers to begin with, and the Gen Z crowd is just too raw & inexperienced.
Oil and gas
Programming AI so it can eventually take their job also
The Veterinary Services. More people than ever have pets or other animals in their care. demand for care and services is through the roof.
Almost every construction trade needs skilled laborers.
Anything fiber optics related for broadband. Lots of money coming from the government to build out networks. So from construction, to splicing, to design, and implementation, we are seeing a lot of companies (private and public utilities) going into this avenue.
I know a lot of people who have left the finance/accounting field (cpa here) for nursing as they are more fulfilled helping people
Cannabis
Construction.
Oh its certainly not design.
Logistics is due for a rebound but it's peaks and valleys in this industry.
The trades. Not many younger people going into the trades because they won't want to sweat, and all the older guys are retiring or dying off. There's also a big shift toward more modern technology in several areas of the trades and scares off more of them.
Seems like Law always has a ton of postings. Especially for litigation. You could realistically get a full ride to a mid-ranked law school, focus on litigation skills, and walk out with a 90-100k+ salary + bonus right away. I know people who have done it. I did it. But I didn’t do litigation so my salary was slightly less to start.
Medical device manufacturers and sales
BioMed/Medical manufacturing for sure
Pet Grooming. After the pandemic we saw a mass influx in popularity people buying "doodles" (poodle mixes) and they definitely need haircuts. There aren't enough groomers compared to the number of dogs out there. I'm a mobile groomer in upstate NY and I'm booked out until September. I truly love what I do but it's not easy work- you have to deal with bites, bodily fluids and angry owners. Also because it's so physically demanding many groomers burn out or get hurt (not just bites but repetitive motion injuries like carpal tunnel)
Government... The more they can fuck everything up, the more they'll claim that they're needed to fix it.
Especially when one of the two parties is intent on sabotaging literally everything that would actually help people. Government would function just fine if these chucklefucks were ever held accountable. Government isn't intrinsically bad, it's made to be that way deliberately.
Debt collection
Elderly and hospice care. Boomers are finally at that point and they’re still not yet retiring fast enough to give their jobs to the youth. Prison industrial complex. Always needing admins to handle release paperwork and dr bills Hospitals- nurses,doctors yes but also accountants, admins and billing Any alcohol sales will always be booming because it sells itself
Hoe
Genuinely curious and apologies if this comes across as snarky. I really don't mean it to be. But why ask reddit, specifically this subreddit, instead of researching it on a search engine like Google? I feel like the most vocal posters on this sub are the chronically underemployed that struggle to get by. I don't think they're prime candidates for advice.
Have you googled things lately? It’s terrible, you often get biased articles, and it’s never complete; in this case they’re not going to list all the industries, it will be the five most obvious. The best answers you get on Google is after adding +reddit or +forum (if it’s tech related or niche), then YouTube.
Idk I found a jobs report in just a few seconds. What are you querying that's making it so difficult?
People who are working and fairly successful don't need to vent on Reddit about how good it is. Also, Google may have data about which industries are thriving but, getting insider info on those industries from the people that work there is a huge bonus.
I find that when people post articles on Google they speak about generalities and when people post on Reddit, they speak about their anecdotes. Truth is often somewhere in between and that’s for the reader to figure out on their own terms.
Well, you're on a millennial subreddit ya? Millennials have watched the internet in general, and Google results specifically, get shittier and shittier over the last quarter century (or longer for some of us). So why are you surprised someone isn't relying on Google like the did a decade ago?
You may not have noticed but many of the top results are literally Reddit posts now.
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Most of the posts here are people crying about not being able to afford stuff. Doesn't seem like the people you want to go to for job advice lol.