Going back to school for nursing to hedge against future AI workforce reductions
Hey, I wanted to bring this up because Atrioc keeps mentioning how bleak the job market is and how it hasn't fully adapted to AI yet. I am about to turn 27, and I graduated in 2022 with a degree in Information Technology Management. Over the past few years, I have earned basic IT certifications such as A+, Network+, and ITIL Foundation, while also working as a Staffing Contractor for a company that works with Amazon on testing and deploying their Robotics and Mechatronics Technology. Early Last Year, Amazon cut a lot of the contracts for my company, reassigned a bunch of us, and also cut a bunch of the corporate jobs I'd hoped to get hired for, like people from my company have been doing for years. They also doubled the experience requirements for many of their actual Amazon Corporate jobs. Late last year, they pretty much put a freeze on most contracts from October to this month. I had been out of a job while still technically being employed by my staffing company for like 6 months. These jobs were pretty well paid, like $30-40/hr with travel expenses reimbursed. The fact that corporate staffing in the future is now seeming so bleak for Full-time employment prospects left me with a decision I've now had to make regarding what would be best for me long term, especially since my Mom passed away this month while I had been staying with her. I've decided that, rather than continuing to try and go up the corporate or IT ladder, where I'm competing with newly laid-off people with like 5-10 years of experience, I'm going to do what like half of my family have done and go into nursing. I wanted to get peoples opinions on whether they think going forward a good way to hedge against encroaching AI impacts on the job market, not to mention the most likely economic shrinkage frm both this current war but also a possible AI bubble pop regarding OpenAI profitability, whether going into more physical/Technical careers are a good option and if having to go back to school for what seems like 3 years of full time classwork is a worthwhile investment. It would pretty much drain my savings from the past few years to do this without taking out loans.