Learn to code, that and any kind of STEM degree will be future proof.

I understand where you’re coming from. I’m in a niche industry where technical writing skills are needed. Being educated enough to understand the topic enough to write a report isn’t something you learn in high school. We didn’t need the AI to do the math, we just needed it to do entry level work.

I used clerk as a generic term for a program manager that does mundane tasks such as report and document writing. We fed our team’s output to the AI, it learned to mimic our style well enough that allowing it to read actual data produced a decent draft. This eliminated the need to hire someone with the skills equivalent to a BS in Business.

Developing technical skills is the best way to be Anti-Fragile in a dynamic world. One of black swan events will continue to disrupt the current status quo. This can be positive (new tech) or negative (lockdowns). In each edition of “Global Trends” the Atlantic Council (a highly respected think tank) has highlighted shrinking jobs in the unskilled fields, and increasing automation in professional services. We’re already are seeing this in accounting, and my last job we used a fork of GPT-3 to avoid hiring another clerk.