Section 8 - 3 - Future Employment Opportunities And Example

How to Stay Employed in the Robotic Future Section 8 - Future Drone Employment Opportunities
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All right, so in this section about future employment and the live example, as well, it's pretty clear that, you know, obviously, even now, not just in the future, but even now, the number of positions that are available to, you know, go into this industry, even for people who don't have a lot of experience in anything particular, particularly specific. If you want to, you know, fly drones and get paid for that. There's many different options, you can become a real estate drone photographer, where they take photos of, you know, houses and submit that to the real estate agents. They then use that in advertising for the actual property. There's other sides where you can take photos for businesses, you know, those who want to get, you know, aerial photos of their overall business or whatever it is that they're doing. You can sell photos to businesses in that regard.

There's also a lot of surveying as well for drone surveying. But Anywhere from anything like that all the way up to the actual, you know, building and manufacturing of the drones, the programming of them, you know, companies like skydio, and their, you know, programming and artificial intelligence, the people that are behind that kind of development, obviously jobs that are in the drone industry, and you know, even things like sales people and all that sort of stuff. So there's lots of current jobs that are available for the drone industry, if you are interested. And one particularly nice thing about drones is that they don't seem to be taking away too many traditional jobs. I mean, there is the example I gave before about during delivery, you know, potentially decreasing the amount of deliveries that maybe a truck driver or delivery driver might do. But even in those cases, when that does fully roll out, you know, maybe in five years or so, you're still looking at those people having to do heavier deliveries, you know, stuff like televisions or maybe a whole week's worth of worth of growth.

Hurry shopping, something like that, they still can't be taken by drones, obviously. So they will still be required. So it's not only not affecting traditional jobs in a huge way, but it's actually generating new, really interesting jobs out there for people. So it's actually quite a good, you know, industry. It's not one of the other, you know, transitional disruption things where it's totally obliterating a whole industry of people working, you know, taxi driving or something like that. So it's actually quite good news.

The other side of it, that's also quite good is that it's still a developing industry. So even if currently right now, you know, absolutely nothing about drones, it's still possible for you to spend, you know, one, maybe two or three years, getting to know them, buying them playing with them, maybe, you know, looking at the actual software that they use, maybe experimenting with them, maybe doing a short course or so and, you know, even After two or three years of doing that, it's not like the industry is going to have gone away, it's only going to gotten bigger by that point. So, you know, it's something that you can either dive into right now, or take your time learning about it and get into it at a later date. Now, when you do finally want to actually go into the industry, what jobs might there be available?

So just like we've gone through before, some of the potential jobs that might be available and are currently available that will grow in time are things like, you know, pilots for the actual drones and flying them, of course, you've got fleet managers, just like with self driving cars, you know, if you've got 1000 drones flying around, someone's going to have to manage that fleet. You have repair technicians, because even autonomously flying drones, you know, maybe someone will get angry with it and shoot it out of the air or something ridiculous like that. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of drones that they're going to have to repair over time. You'll also need monitoring systems and people So this is not just the people that sit there monitoring the systems and monitoring how these autonomous drones are flying around, but also the people that build and design those actual monitoring systems themselves.

Everyone also need managers as well, everyone always needs managers, both in terms of the traditional sense and sense and project managers as well. You'll also be looking at a good number of system integrators. So these are people that will be integrating the old with the new so someone like Amazon as a just another good example, that had that old delivery method and this new drone delivery method, but weren't entirely replaced that but it will have to be integrated together. So they'll have to, you know, get those systems to determine how heavy is this package? Should it go via drone delivery, or should it go via traditional delivery. So all these sorts of things will be how this new you know, industry and new ability to deliver things or whatever it is that it's doing, will sort of interact with the world.

Existing systems, maybe it's not drone delivery, maybe it's something like, you know, real estate photography or something like that there's lots of room for system integrators there. Also, you will need a lot of back end server systems and support so you've got your it in that sort of scenario, you have drones flying around, they obviously doing that autonomously, they still need the back end software and hardware systems at the company that control those drones that tell you know, drone one to go over here and drone to to go over there and you know, partitioner work and all that sort of stuff. So a lot of back end sort of servers will be utilized for that. And you'll also need your general it people to not just manage that, but also the software and, you know, people that use that software as just a general day to day basis.

On top of that, you'll also need the it to do security and management. So, again, going back to that cyber security section where, you know, this is obviously going to be quite high security. required, you know, you've got these drones that are flying around over everyone's head, they will be carrying cargo, there's going to have to be significant security, both software and hardware to make sure that that's not you know, abused or taken advantage of, or maybe intercepted and, you know, use they are more than capable of delivering any payload. And that could be, you know, some bananas for you to pick up or it could be something a lot worse if someone gets a hold of it. And, you know, doesn't want to be that nice. So I expect there to be a huge amount of security, both in terms of software and hardware, and that's going to attract a lot of security and, you know, very technical people in that regard.

On top of that, there's many, many more sort of, you know, people that will be getting employed and a lot of different positions that will open up I'm sure, the more sort of complex that everything gets and the more complex these drones become, you know, there's going to be a requirement For more management, more systems, more software, and as the business grows, everything else is going to grow as well along with, you know, people they need to hire to manage these systems. So that's in the absolute immediate sort of business side where you're doing something like drone delivery. There's also the business to business selling side. So this, again, spans a huge array of potential positions, you could be a salesperson selling, you know, your drone delivery system network to another business that wants to utilize your technology. That's a position for a salesperson in the drawing industry.

It spans all the way up to, you know, managers and project managers and all these other sorts of people that make these sort of opportunities and companies really work. And again, that goes far beyond things like just managers or salesman, but, you know, there's lots of different positions that are available. You can imagine where, you know, you might have a little pizza shop and that petition Your little pizza shop, they don't have the infrastructure or the resources to build an entire drone delivery network. But at the same time, they might want to use that new industry, that new technology to deliver their pizzas to their customers. So, you know, an enterprising young person might start up a new business to sort of become I don't know how to describe it, maybe like the Uber Eats, but with drones, or maybe Uber will take on that as well, who knows.

And you know, this person will pay this new company to use their drone network that will then come and pick up that pizza and take it to their customers so that they get to use that new technology. They can compete on a higher level, and not have to actually own the entire infrastructure. So that business to business sales and the services and the you know, software and everything that they can offer to other businesses is a huge sort of area that I'm assuming businesses will jump into. And if they're doing that you can guarantee that there's going to be employable positions. there as well. As well as that you also have the infrastructure and the software and the security and all that, that is, you know, involved in doing either city or state or country wide sort of monitoring and maintaining this sort of infrastructure of these drones.

So they have a specific aerial band where they can actually fly in, you know, it might be 50 feet to 400 feet, or whatever it might be. But that's where all these autonomous drones will likely fly in. And when they're doing that, just like with regular aircraft, they're gonna have to have people, you know, monitor them and make sure that are crashing to each other. And these sort of international intercity monitoring software systems are currently being designed and currently being built. So maybe you might not get into a position now, but in five years time, it might be very common to sort of be one of those monitoring person that, you know, monitors this system which organizes all these autonomous drones. So you can also be the person that's designing that system, whether it's the user interface, right down to the actual programming up to the project manager who's managing the whole project, or maybe the salesperson who's selling that software to, you know, perhaps a city government or something like that.

So, I hope you can sort of see that is a absolutely huge array of potential positions that this industry opens up. So for the example that I want to go through for this particular one, in previous slide examples, I've gone through people that have quite a bit of experience, you know, your project manager that has 10 years experience or your electrical engineer, that's obviously an engineer and has gone and done that degree and also has, you know, maybe five or 10 years worth of experience. I want to choose someone who has a little less experience maybe who is just starting out. So for part one, I want to go through and set up the position of perhaps you know, someone who is a customer representative, they just, you know, sitting on phones all day answering customers. Helping them out, you know, it doesn't matter what company they're working for, perhaps it's just a big, you know, multinational, something such rather.

And, you know, they're answering calls all day long, they're helping people out, you know, customer accounts, very sort of typical regular staff, something where you would start out if you're just starting your career. So this person, whoever they are, at this particular stage, they're kind of starting to read up. And you know, this is part one. So they're doing a lot of learning. And they're trying to figure out what technologies are out there are any of them sort of threatening their business and, you know, it's pretty easy for them to figure out that, you know, automation is a very, very big threat to the particular job that they're in. So they're answering calls, they're talking to customers, they're doing, you know, very repetitive things over and over again, you know, I need to reset my password or I need to, you know, complain about this invoice or it's very similar work over and over again.

So they've recognized that Thought is something with a high chance of automation. Now at the same time, by going through new technologies and learning about it and reading up on them, they find the sort of drone industry and it sort of piques their interest, they're quite interested in it. And again, that comes back to finding something that's not only a new, upcoming and booming industry, but something that you're interested in as well. If you can find that once you move into it, it's going to be a much better experience for you than doing something that is boring to you, when you hate going to work every day sort of thing. So that's in part one. And at this point, you know, this person is just reading up and getting all this information.

So in part two, you know, this person starts to notice more and more that their company is, you know, really starting to like that automation. They're not really sort of hiring as many people even though the workload is expanding, a lot of it's getting taken up by automation, but it's still kind of early days. While they're doing that learning, they're starting to identify that, you know, drones and that industry is really where they want to go into, that's the, you know, out of all the technologies that I've read about, that's the one that was interesting. But they're still, you know, they don't have a huge experience, as I said before, it's, you know, it's their first job, their customer representative. So they also want to while they're, you know, moving into a new industry, they'd really like to actually, you know, maybe go up a step and, you know, maybe earn some more income, get a raise all that good stuff.

So they look around for certain companies that, you know, might interest lurman in that drone industry space, but unfortunately, at least in this early stage, while they're doing it, you know, currently, there are a few companies but they're very small, the very start off in Nigeria, they might only have five or six or seven employees, they're not a particularly big company. And at the moment, that person, you know, they can't really take that risk on such a small company. So they just continue to Learn about the actual, you know, drone infrastructure, the software systems, the actual devices. And that's mainly what they're doing in part two, in part three is where it starts to get really interesting. So at the company level, they're really, really starting to push for automation. It's been a few years since I started sort of, you know, experimenting with it, and it's worked out really well for them.

They've kept their stuff down their staff down quite a bit, but they're still got, you know, five or 10 people working there, including this person. But you know, it's very, very clear to this person that as soon as they can get rid of them, they will. So he's actively looking a lot more now he's taking classes trying to learn as much as he can about these drones and the software system. He sort of zeroed in and focuses on you know, fleet management and that sort of stuff. He sees that as a particularly good position to move up to it's not, you know, something huge whiz bang like programming national drone security. Or anything huge like that, that, you know, they wouldn't have a chance that it's something that is, you know, a step above what they're doing at the moment, but at the same time, it's very, very likely they can get that job.

So they focus in on that they do research on the main companies that are out there focuses on the big main companies, not the smallest startup, it's been a few years since and so, you know, those, some of those companies have actually grown and now they're in the, you know, hundreds of people employee level, so they're a little bit bigger and more, you know, interesting target the more secure job as it were. So, what this person actually does is find out what software they're wanting to use or you know, is the industry standard, tries and gets a copy of it has a play with it, or at least tries to read up a lot on it and really learn about that actual software, you know, how it works, what the best alternatives are for fleet management, you know, get a bit of skill basically in that particular area of it.

While he's doing At the same time, he's approaching those companies trying to get interviews with them. Finally, after, you know, a couple of attempts, he does get a few interviews. And with that particular knowledge about that software for the fleet management that, you know, not very many other people have, and this is one of the main points that I want to kind of make in this particular type of argument. This is a person that, you know, they're just starting out, they don't have that huge experience like everyone else might have. But in this particular case, it doesn't matter because the technology is so new, you know, it's impossible for someone to have 20 years experience or even five years experience of the software was made, you know, a year ago. So you're on a much more level playing field now.

They've had this sort of customer experience or customer representative and the experience of dealing with customers and you know, that can be transferred over to internal customers and you know, satisfying internal customers, along with that extra sort of skill of Knowing about drones knowing that the technical, you know, reasons and backgrounds and the information about them and really being up to speed on where the industry is, as well as having that software experience really gets them, you know, as a really good prime candidate, and eventually they get one of the positions and transition smoothly over into being a fleet manager. So, not only have they jumped into a completely different industry, they've actually gone up a bit of a step, you know, they might have gotten a raise, and now in charge of, you know, maybe 50 or 100 drones or a, you know, a large fleet of drones that they take care of.

And in the final part, they can essentially use this position that they've gone into and over the next years, you know, really go up the company ladder as the company expands. You know, as the drone industry gets bigger and bigger, more companies out there hear about their product, you know, how much more efficient it is the huge cost saving benefits of it. That company gets bigger and bigger, more customers more, you know, read knew. And that translates into this person, basically going up higher and higher as the company just naturally grows now, looking back at their old, you know, big customer representative company and jobs that they used to hold, you know, the automation has completely taken over, they never hired someone to replace this person when they change jobs. It was just all taken over by automation. And maybe they've got, you know, one or two people just kind of keeping an eye on the software systems that are actually doing all the work of the 10 to 20 people that used to work there, maybe, you know, three or five years ago.

So that's the whole sort of example of how to go from being you know, very, very fresh and new and not having any experience into something where you can actually go into a completely new industry and actually jump up a step above where you otherwise might usually be. So hopefully, it's a good example now of that, you know, this strategy doesn't just work For people who have 10 years experience in whatever industry that can work for that full spectrum of, you know, high paying high experience, you know, engineers or managers or whatever it is right down to someone who's just starting out and doesn't have any experience whatsoever. And if you are one of those people, you don't have that huge, you know, 1020 years worth of experience to sort of build off into interview with really sort of think about these industries that are exceptionally new, you know, your self driving cars or your drone industry or something where it's impossible to actually have previous experience because that product, that industry, whatever it is just simply didn't exist five years ago.

And this is where you can really sort of get a jump on everyone else. Because usually, you know, you might be going for a job and someone will have an engineering degree or a master's degree or an MBA or whatever it might be. And if you're starting out that's very hard to sort of compete with especially if they also have you know, can use experience on top of that, it's, you know, they're obviously going to hire the more experienced candidate. But in those sort of situations, you can kind of, you know, play the field a little bit and get on an even footing with those people, they might have, you know, 10 years experience in sales or whatever it might be. But if they're going for a fleet management position, what good is silos something, it's not going to be kind of regarded or even taken into account, basically, because it's a relevant experience.

So it's how you can kind of jump ahead of the competition in these sorts of industries. Now, next up in the next section, like going into solar, wind and battery, and the industries that surrounding them. This is a huge, if not the absolute, biggest industry in the entire world. It certainly has an absolutely huge amount of jobs from every walk of life. So if you felt that the examples or any of the industries that I've covered So far are really kind of up your alley or your tickle your fancy or anything like that. Stay tuned and we'll have a chat to you in the next section about this because I'm sure there'll be something for everyone.

So talk to you then.

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