What are the jobs of the future?
I just did an interview on the industries that will grow and shrink this decade – I’ll provide a link to the story when it comes out if the magazine puts it online, or if not write it up as a blog post later. It made me remember an interview I did a couple of years for an article on the jobs of the future. They just took a brief quote from my interview: Futurist Ross Dawson of the Future Exploration Network says that when social networks burst onto the scene, roles as community managers or social network managers became a necessity. Such roles are still new, he says, but companies and celebrities alike are advertising for professionals to help them manage their consumer and fan online chat. “You can have thousands of friends on Facebook and MySpace,” Dawson says. “A celebrity will have people that help them manage their MySpace site as they have a lot of people to interact with and not enough time.” Here is the list of jobs of the future that I told the journalist about: Virtual assistant Personal database manager Reputation manager Carbon emission consultant Computer scavenging Brain implant surgeon Emotional robot interface designer Information filterer Motion capture actors Dog yoga instructor Concept visualization designer What do you think the jobs of the future are?
Social network manager
