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The job apocalypse is our topic today.
What's the job apocalypse?
Apocalypse means the end of the world, right?
So the end of the job world.
Sounds kind of an ominous.
This is our first new year, uh, um, How should I say?
New Year topic.
And it was triggered by a trip to San Francisco.
First, a statistic.
I got this from McKinsey Global Institute.
They're like a consulting firm for big, huge companies.
And they are predicting up to 800 million jobs.
800 million jobs lost by 2030.
2030 one billion jobs lost by 2036.
So, 10 years from now, a billion jobs gone because of ai and robotics, primarily because of ai and robotics.
So The reason I'm talking about this, you know, is because I'm now in Japan, by the way.
Happy New Year, a late Happy New Year from Osaka, Japan.
So on our way to Osaka, we stopped in San Francisco.
And I was incredibly shocked because as we went around San Francisco, I kept seeing these weird cars that had cameras on top of them and all over them.
And I was driving around.
We rented a car.
So I'm driving around.
I see this kind of weird car with cameras on the top of the roof and on the front and the back and all the corners of the car.
And I didn't really notice.
I didn't really look at it very carefully.
I thought it was one of those Google Maps cars.
You know, they drive around and they take pictures.
They do the street view.
I've seen those a lot.
So I didn't think anything of it until I took a closer look and I kept seeing these cars, lots and lots and lots of them, all over the streets in San Francisco.
So I thought, this is weird.
Why are there so many Google Maps cars?
Well, they were not Google Maps cars.
They were robot cars, no drivers.
I looked and there was no driver, no driver in any of these cars.
And these cars were everywhere all over the city.
I mean, lots and lots and lots of them.
So I asked my friends, Joe and Kristen, some of you know, my friends in San Francisco.
So I said, what is the deal with these cars, these robot cars?
And they said, yeah, that's a company called Waymo.
W-A-Y-M-O.
They have a website if you want to check them out.
Waymo.com.
And it's a taxi service.
It's like Uber or Lyft.
But...
They are AI cars with no drivers.
And like I said, lots of them.
And they're driving everywhere, all over the city.
I mean, many times I would be driving, there'd be one in front of me and one behind my car.
And then I turn and then there's another one.
They were all over the place.
And this shocked me because, you know, a couple of years ago I had read about, you know, self-driving cars and cars.
I thought, okay, well, you know, they're working on the technology, but it still has problems.
You know, I thought, okay, this is still kind of a long way away.
And I, you know, we moved away.
We moved from Osaka.
We moved to Indiana.
It's out in the countryside.
So I've never seen anything like this.
I did not know that these cars are already, you know, working in business, making money, right?
So I was shocked how many there were.
And, you know, they're very, very, very good.
They drive all over the city.
And the way it works is just like Uber.
So you have an app on your phone, the Waymo app.
And you just call, you know, you call it and you put in where you are.
And you put in where you're going, where you want to go.
And the car, some robot car comes up, pulls up, you get in.
Close the door.
It takes you where you want to go.
It stops.
You get out.
And then your card is charged automatically.
I talked to my friends about it.
We didn't use one.
Like I said, we rented a car.
But Kristen and Joe, they told me that right now the cost of the Waymo rides is about the same as Uber or Lyft or a taxi, so they're all pretty similar in price.
And the reason is because right now the technology is still a bit expensive.
Right, you know, they have all the cameras and the software and they have to.
Obviously the cars have to be special.
Uh, they're electric cars.
So even though all that's more expensive, of course they can charge less.
They don't pay drivers, they don't have to pay the drivers.
So right now they're kind of competing with Uber and Lyft and normal taxis.
But I just shocked how fast this technology has improved.
And not only improved, it's now being used, being used a lot.
And I looked on their website.
They're also doing it in Los Angeles.
And they have plans, of course, to go international, to go all there.
I think they're testing Tokyo right now.
They have to train the cars, train the software on different streets.
Right now, they're only doing inside cities, right?
But their website, they said they're training their AI, training their cars on big highways also.
And they're training them all in all these different cities.
So they're, of course, going to go nationwide all across the United States and international.
They're already looking at Tokyo.
I guarantee it's going to be everywhere in the world.
And this is going to happen quickly because the technology works now.
According to the company statistics, the robot cars are safer than human drivers.
Fewer accidents.
They track the accidents.
And, you know, maybe that's marketing.
I don't know.
But it does make sense because the robot doesn't get distracted.
They're not looking at their phone, right.
They're not talking, they're not listening to music, right?
So it's uh, it's amazing.
It's amazing and it's coming, even though right now it's just in a couple cities in the united states.
But they are, there are a lot of them in san francisco, and it won't be long before they start popping up in lots and lots and lots of other cities and then, quite soon, i think, they're going to be going cross country, you know, on big highways.
So what does this mean for jobs?
It means goodbye jobs that involve driving, first of all.
Goodbye taxi drivers, goodbye uber drivers, goodbye lyft drivers right because, number one, that the technology is going to get better and better.
They're going to be able to go farther and farther on the highways.
They're going to be able to go everywhere.
And number two, the cost of the technology will drop, right?
The cars are going to get cheaper.
The AI is going to get better and cheaper.
Everything is going to be cheaper.
What that means is eventually probably soon they will be able to charge less than taxis, less than Uber, less than Lyft.
They'll be able to cut the prices below their human competition.
And when that happens, you know eventually it won't happen in one day, but over a few years, you know those driving jobs are going to eventually disappear.
And the same is going to happen to truck drivers.
And you know, I don't know, I think a lot of countries, certainly in the United States, there are a lot of truck drivers.
That's a that's a big profession.
I don't know i i could look it up on the internet, i guess, to see how many uh people work as truck drivers, but it's a lot and they they're paid decently well.
Those jobs are going to be gone because they're going to create.
If they can create ai cars, they can create ai trucks and they will.
And if they can do cities and then they get into highways, eventually they'll.
You're going to have ai robot self-driving cars going all over the country, in every country.
So pretty much all driving jobs.
Maybe there might be a few, but most of them are going to disappear.
And this was, for me, it was kind of a boom, wake up shock, like I said.
Because as I said, I read about the self-driving cars.
I thought it was farther away.
It's not.
It's right here now.
It's happening now.
And the same is true for AI in general.
I played around with, you know chat, GPT and some of the AI stuff I don't know, a couple of years ago and yeah, it was pretty good, but just tons of mistakes.
So I wasn't super impressed but in just a couple of years uh, gotten much better.
For number for one, there are a lot more choices now.
It's not just chat gpt, now there are lots of them and they can specialize in different you know skills in different areas so you can usually find pretty decent ones.
You know, sometimes the image creation ones are you can still get the extra fingers on the pictures and some stuff like that but uh, it's getting better and better, and the same is true.
There's video ai.
So I believe these figures a billion jobs lost because these big companies are looking to replace their human workers.
Anything that is even close to being routine.
And in fact, so you know, doing more research about it and the kinds of jobs that will probably disappear.
It's just a huge number of jobs.
It's not just driving jobs.
And what does that mean?
I mean, it means a loss of income for huge numbers of people.
And when a billion people go, are out of work well, that means a billion people don't have a salary.
So they're not going to be buying things.
And so that's going to create other job losses and business losses.
So yikes, frightening.
And there are other.
You know it's not just McKinsey group, there are a lot of different.
These big international groups the, you know, the World Economic Forum, those evil bankers uh, you know, they're kind of telling you their plans.
They're predicting, you know, i don't know, half a billion jobs lost in the next five years or something.
Um, goldman sachs, the giant investment bank, is predicting like a billion.
Also that same number, a billion jobs lost.
And yeah, i believe it, i believe it.
So what can we do?
How do you survive this?
And who's not?
What jobs are not going to survive?
And if you're in one of these jobs that is in danger.
I suggest you listen to this show carefully and start planning now, because it's going to happen fast.
The technology is improving so quickly now.
So what are the types of jobs?
I actually went on different AIs and asked different AIs what kinds of jobs are going to be know lost disappeared, replaced by ai and robotics and drones?
So these and then of course i, you know, can use my own brain and figure out what i think too.
Number one obviously, is manufacturing.
If you work in a factory, start training for something else, because we already know that a great many manufacturing jobs have already been lost.
You know, robotics are already used in a lot of factories car factories, etc.
This is going to increase uh in more and more and more factories, not just automobiles or you know.
It's going to go pretty much all manufacturing and it's going to take over more and more parts of the manufacturing process.
So fewer and fewer and fewer and fewer manufacturing jobs of any kind, factory jobs, that one's kind of obvious logistics, which is what i just talked about.
That means driving, transportation and uh delivery jobs bye-bye.
Another huge employer in america right now are amazon drivers, amazon delivery, and amazon has clearly said many times that they plan to eliminate those jobs as much as they can.
You know they've talked about.
You know their dream is to have drones which, may you know, probably will eventually happen.
I think that one is probably kind of far away, but it's hard to say now.
I don't know.
I used to think it was far away.
But their idea is that you would order something on Amazon and then your closest warehouse, a robot, would take what you ordered off their shelf, take it to a drone at their factory.
The drone would then, you know, fly up in the air, fly to your house or apartment or drop off point and then drop the package there and you would get it in, like a you know, less than an hour.
That's what.
That's their dream.
I don't think they're so close to that.
The problem is that the, the drones can't carry heavy packages right now.
Right it's, it's.
It's the cost of having large drones that can handle a heavy amount of weight and having enough of them.
So the economics are not good for that yet.
But, you know, eventually they will be.
I think in the shorter term, what they'll do in Amazon is they'll just use self-driving cars, self-driving trucks and robots.
And so they'll just the robots will load the packages onto the trucks.
The trucks will be robotic AI robots.
Self-driving trucks.
They'll drive the route, drop off the packages.
There'll be some kind of robotic arm or some kind of system in the truck to sort the packages.
Take out the package that's yours, drop it next to your road or driveway or some drop-off point if it's in the city with apartments and then go.
And human drivers will be gone.
So logistics.
Logistics means, you know, like driving delivery, that kind of thing uh, in big danger, probably going to be lost.
Now another one for a lot of people are office jobs.
A lot, a lot, a lot of office jobs will be replaced not so much by robots but by ai.
So admin jobs, anything that's kind of routine admin jobs uh coding, a lot of basic coding, program computer programming is now, you know, there are AIs like Claude and many others that can do a lot of the coding.
So you've got AI can write programs for things.
And so there'll still be human programmers telling the AI what to do and checking the code, but they won't need as many people.
They'll be able to get rid of a huge number of basic coders, basic programmers.
That's a job that's in danger hugely.
Bookkeeping and basic accounting.
Again, the ai, the computers, can do that.
They can just you can just link up.
I mean, i already do this somewhat.
You can link up a business, can link up their bank accounts and all their accounts with money coming in and out and then they can train the ai to recognize the different kinds of purchases or payments and then code them And then put them into spreadsheets and create bookkeeping spreadsheets and create accounting and even figure out your taxes.
All that's going to happen.
Already somewhat happening now.
And eventually you know again, most of the basic bookkeeping accounting will disappear and be taken over by AI.
Probably.
I think that's true.
Another one you can probably see in your own town, in your own city, is customer service.
Customer service of all different kinds is, uh is rapidly being replaced by robotics.
And you know, i have to say, as a customer, i understand why, because so much customer service is terrible.
So i'll give you an example now mcdonald's, if you have mcdonald's, a really basic one.
If you go into mcdonald's now uh, certainly in the united states, also here in japan, it's the same.
I went into one the other day.
I was curious to see what system they're using.
And it's the same.
You walk in.
You do not go to the counter and tell a human being your order.
You go to a big screen thing, right?
And you just punch in your order like it's just a giant iPad, basically.
You know, I want two hamburgers and three large fries.
I don't have a Coke.
You just punch it in.
And you pay at the machine.
And then it, you know, gives you a receipt and a number.
And then you just go pick it up the counter.
Right now they have humans who are cooking and bringing the food to the counter, but I'm sure it's not long before they have robots cooking the food.
Why not?
It's not that difficult to cook fast food, so they can.
They're going to replace, I'm sure, most of the human cooks and again, like having a human being pick up the bag, the tray and take it to the counter.
They can easily get a robot to do that right.
So they're already replacing cashier.
Same at the grocery stores, like in the United States.
They have so many self-checkout.
All the grocery stores the two main ones I go to in our pretty small town in Indiana in America, in the United States they both use self-check.
I use it all the time.
Most people use self-checkout now.
So all those cashiers are gone.
They have one person they're watching, making sure people aren't cheating and they have ai systems.
When you're checking out your own groceries, they have ai.
They have cameras and ai systems that monitor for stealing.
Like if you try to take something from your basket and put it in your bag and not don't scan it, they it does a little alert and the human person comes over and can check and look at the video and it makes mistakes.
So they do it sometimes even when you do pay.
So it's, but it's.
You know it's getting better and better and better.
So they're replacing the cash, the cashiers at the grocery stores.
Right happening, already done, i mean already very much so, and they're just gonna.
This is going to go into more and more jobs.
So, for example, a grocery store, do they really need a lot of human beings putting stuff on the shelves?
Because I'm sure they'll be able to.
Just AI and robots could just unload the trucks and then bring, scan all the inventory, scan all the stuff right and then put it up on the shelves.
It's not that hard.
Amazon's already doing that in their warehouses, so I don't think it's long before grocery stores and other big shops start doing that.
So they'll replace all those workers.
So it's a lot.
And, you know, honestly, there are places like, let's say, Starbucks.
I've gone into Starbucks.
And I kind of wish they would replace the human workers there, because their human workers are so awful.
Not in Japan.
In Japan they're fantastic, by the way but in America, in the united states when i say america, it's the united states okay, um?
So in the united states, the star.
I've been to starbucks several times and i hate it because i can't.
Every time i go there, i go to the counter, it's my turn to order and there'll be a worker right there.
They look at me and then they just turn around and ignore me.
They're like making something or they're doing something.
They don't say hello, they don't say can you wait a minute?
Just like i'm invisible, i and i have.
I just stand there for a couple minutes until finally they decide to turn around and take my order.
It's absolutely terrible.
So if that's the kind of service a human's going to do, i'd rather just have a robot where i can put in my or you know, punch it on a screen and then just pick my drink up, right.
So now, like i said, in some places, it's different.
Japan is, you know, the number one customer service in the world.
And I went to a Starbucks here and they were super friendly and very, you know.
So that's nice, right?
It's human.
So I think most of us would like to have that human connection.
But we all know that a lot of places have terrible customer service.
And that human connection is actually negative, right?
Like I said, in Japan, it's usually positive.
So I'm happy to have a human being help me. when I go to buy something.
But in the United States actually in a lot I won't say all the time, but many, many situations I don't want the human being because they got a bad attitude.
They're lazy and they make me feel bad and make me feel worse when I'm trying to spend money at their shop.
So anyway, but the reason the businesses are doing it, of course, is that employees cost a lot of money.
And if they're not adding much value right which, like the Starbucks employees are adding no value, they're subtracting value then it's much cheaper for the companies to just switch it over to robots and computer screens and AI.
But that's bad for our overall society, I think.
And then another one is content creators.
Content creators, a whole lot of them are going bye-bye.
Writers, writers.
I mean, I follow a few authors who have been playing around with AI and they are starting to produce really, really good stuff.
And the average level of writing this is fiction and nonfiction is so basic and so kind of predictable that the AI can match it or even do better than a lot of it.
So a lot of writers, especially independent writers, writers who are not really really really unique uh goodbye, those jobs are going advertising, like people who write basic advertising.
A lot of those jobs, goodbye.
Because ai can do it easily.
I think hollywood and the whole and this is a good one this, i think this is actually a positive thing but i think hollywood and video, i think the whole filmmaking, video market is about to be destroyed.
OK, because soon you or I will be able to make a movie using AI, a two hour long movie using AI tools, for extremely small amount of money that will match or be better than anything Hollywood can make for, you know, 200 million.
Because you know the ai is getting better and better, the video ai, better and better, more and more human.
Like you know, right now it still kind of looks animated, but it's getting better and better and better and better.
And then the tools to actually, you know, set up scenes and create scenes once, and i think this is great, because then what we're gonna have is just a huge number.
Anybody can make a movie and of course, there'll be a lot of junk but uh, but most of hollywood's junk too.
So, you know, in that case it could have a more democratic effect, i think.
But still, you know hollywood's big business and that's a lot of money that's going to be lost and a lot of people working in those kind of industries.
So yeah um, this is huge.
It's huge.
So what can we do right?
What can we do?
So know, thinking through it, researching it.
I asked a bunch of ai about this.
I, you know just, of course, thinking it through myself, and i think that the the number one general idea to focus on to survive the job or career is that you've got to focus on the most human types of skills.
What does that mean?
You know, emotional skills, communication skills, face to face skills.
So let's go over some of the examples of this.
Number one would be language, but specifically conversational language, face to face.
So good news for you learning English.
Great.
But this does not mean like translation.
Translation.
The AI is already pretty good for a whole lot of languages most languages only going to get better and better and better.
And also even too, you just have your phone and for basic foreign language needs, like if you're just traveling as a tourist, you don't need to learn another language because now that you know the translations are good enough, google translate, you can do verbal, you can just speak in.
You know, i would like a, a double room for three nights, and then you just hold it up and it'll translate it into the, the workers language, the hotel workers language, whatever it is.
Let's say, you're traveling in japan, so you could just say yeah, i'd like a double room for three nights, hold it up and there you go.
It works pretty well.
Uh, my son was in japanese hospitals.
They would and were, and i've gone to a japanese doctor one time.
Uh they, that's what they did.
They would just, we would just communicate with google translate.
It's just easier, because google translate was better than my japanese and better than the doctor's english, right?
So that kind of really like just grammar translation, that kind of uh it's, That's going to be replaced.
That's no good.
You don't want to focus on that because it's not going to help you.
But what you do want to focus on is face to face, real time, full conversation, like really connecting with another person and talking about your life and your feelings and and then maybe getting into business uses like sales or negotiation, that kind of thing. where you don't want to use a an app is going to you know make it difficult to have that connection and build a relationship so in other words using language like you would your own language to build business relationships personal relationships so in other words conversational conversational language english for sure is number one that will continue if you have time you know learn russian learn chinese learn spanish those are all super useful too but uh english will still be number one just because it's already used by so many countries and places and people and fields business science right travel that will continue just because it it's just the easiest thing for people to do because everyone kind of agrees let's all use english But you want to focus on conversational English, other skills, soft skills.
So, you know, emotional skills and things like persuasion.
OK, this is thing.
This is something again, face to face, verbally and nonverbal skills.
Right.
You want to focus on these kind of skills because AI is not going to replace that.
In fact, the more AI becomes big and used in more places, the more that robotics becomes, take over, people will want human connection more and more and more.
They will value positive human connection more and more and more.
Now, on the other hand, their patience for negative human connection or human communication will go down and i've seen, like i said for myself, same thing with the starbucks example.
You know, positive communication, oh it's great, like i go, i'm in japan and they, they smile and oh, you know, they give a little bow and they're really want to please you and and really great service and that's great, i like it.
I'd much rather go to a place like that than some screen right or some robot or screen or something.
So If those two were in competition, a place with good human service, with those good soft skills, those emotional skills, eye contact smiling friendly helpful, great.
That's an advantage to have those things.
But, on the other hand, if there's a place with human workers and they have bad habits, communication skills right, like my starbucks example in america, where they're grumpy, they're lazy, they don't smile, they just got that kind of look on their face right, they act like they don't want to.
You know you're kind of annoying them a little bit.
That is going to be punished terribly, because why deal with that bad attitude, why deal with that if you can just go somewhere and not have to deal with that nonsense?
You can just put your order on the screen, push a button, get your drink and walk out right.
So positive social skills, soft skills people call them a lot of times in business yes, you want to develop those, and develop those at a high level.
Uh, things like leadership and management will continue.
There still will be human workers uh, but you're still going to need leaders managers, people who can think and make strategies and plan higher level thinking, creative thinking.
Definitely they'll continue to be in need for that, perhaps even more.
An additional need for that a big big, big one is sales, face-to-face sales, face-to-face selling, because selling, which is a kind of persuasion, is very very, very emotion driven.
It's very emotional.
So, you know, for something really basic like buying a cup of coffee yeah, a touch screen or AI or a robot can do that, but selling things that are more expensive, more complicated, people want to talk to another human being and sales is tough.
It's a hard skill.
You got to practice, you got to learn, you know.
Go read books about sales.
But if you can develop that skill, businesses always need people who can sell.
They always need salesmen or saleswomen, people who are good at sales.
You can always find a job somewhere.
That is a really great master skill to develop and learn to survive this AI job apocalypse.
Negotiation, another kind of skill, right?
Negotiation.
So businesses negotiate with each other.
People negotiate with each other, try to make a deal.
So making deals, again, it's a complicated skill.
There's a lot of emotion involved.
It's a face-to-face communication skill.
And it takes a lot of time to develop, but a great skill to know and it will definitely give you a huge advantage over the next 10 years as all these jobs start getting taken away, replaced.
Teaching and coaching is another one, according to the AI.
I have mixed feelings about this one.
I don't know if that's right.
I think some areas I think basic teaching, AI and computers in general not even AI can replace that right.
Like, if you want to learn to play the guitar now, do you really have to go pay a huge amount of money out you know, I don't know 30 an hour or more to some guy to show you how to do chords.
No, you just get on YouTube.
You don't even need AI.
Just get on YouTube and you can just, there's a lot of good guys on there who are teaching.
So I would agree teaching, but I don't think that typical sort of classroom style teaching I think is actually in danger.
A lot of those teachers bye-bye because they're not doing anything creative or interesting or special.
Same for, like most, like you know, public schools.
You know, like teaching basic subjects, all that can be learned the same or, even better, more effectively, just doing it online.
You know, like from.
Even for me, i like i don't want to go For most things if I'm trying to learn a new skill, I'd rather just get online and find some online course or program or YouTube videos or whatever and just learn it that way.
I'll give you a quick example of that.
My sister's trying to learn to cook.
She wants to learn to bake, learn more about baking, like cakes, breads, and stuff like that.
So, you know, she's kind of like the old way of thinking.
She signed up for this class at this like technical school in Indiana.
And then they.
But before she could take the class, they made her take this other class about sanitation and washing your hands, like this whole class for like six weeks.
Learn all that stuff.
So just a busy work basically, and then she's got to go drive to the class.
So i i also got wanted to get into making bread and just cookies.
You know, really simple baking, but i could.
I learned all that in about.
You know, i could learn it all in about 10 days watching youtube videos like why, why pay for free or very, very cheap?
And and if i wanted like higher level stuff, There's tons of great online cooking courses you know that are taught by good chefs, people who are really good at teaching, and much much, much cheaper right.
It's the same with you with learning English, right?
You know you can get my course, for you know, my Power English course or my VIP for a couple hundred bucks at most.
Instead of going and spending, you know, hundreds and hundreds, thousands and thousands of dollars and having to drive or take a train to some school somewhere in the town and then sit there with a bunch of other people and go through all the textbooks, all that time, all that money, you can just do it in your home much more effectively.
So certain kinds of teachers, teachers who are really special, who are motivational, who are skillful, who inspire you And who use technology well so they can reach the whole world
Yeah, that kind of teaching and coaching.
There's, I think, good opportunities.
But basic like teaching, like the typical stuff, I think is in danger.
Health care is another one.
That's a good area, good skills to have, especially areas like therapy that have to be one-on-one and it's not only just doing something like physical therapy.
So say, you broke your arm and then now your muscle gets weak and now you need someone to help you right, get it back again so you can use it.
So yeah, you need a physical therapist or some kind of therapist, and part of that is technical knowing what to do.
You could find that on youtube Or you know an AI system could tell you that.
But part of it is also just supporting you, like mentally and emotionally helping you oh, you know, helping you with your technique but really just encouraging you, because sometimes it's just tough, it's painful, it's difficult and you want a human being there to coaching.
So those kind of jobs, nursing, right?
Nobody who's sick in the hospital wants a robot coming to their bed when they're in the hospital, right?
That human touch and care is part of healing.
I think especially in healthcare the big big, big opportunities are, you know, so-called alternative healthcare, meaning outside the medical industry, like the big hospitals and doctors, because they're all doing the same thing.
We know that a lot of the stuff they do is harmful or just nonsense, and so the AI is just gonna follow that same thing.
You're gonna get the same corporate kind of medical care from AI and robots as you do from doctors now and hospitals.
So, but so tons and tons of people, lots of people, are looking for other things true, healing to cures right, and they're looking outside of that system, and So I think that has a lot of opportunities.
And then anything that's very custom like if you have a business, something that's premium, right where you're giving a lot of human connection and emotion, or things that are truly creative.
So these are the areas that are the most safe from AI.
Now the smart thing to do.
My final point is that Just one of these skills is not probably going to be enough.
What you want to do is stack them.
Skills stacking means putting something on top.
It means you need more than one of these.
You want to combine them.
So if you have great sales skills and great leadership, you're in good shape.
Those are two fantastic skills.
Put them together.
That's going to give you a lot of job opportunities.
If you have, I don't know, if you have great English conversational skills, and great sales skills again super combo because now you can do international sales and that's uh kind of a specialty and a lot of people can't do it they're they're really good sales people but their english is not good enough to sell to people in english right they can do it in their own language but doing it in english oh too much they're people with good english skills but they they don't have the sales skills so the number of people who can do both very well is pretty small and there's a good amount of uh opportunity there so combining skills stacking them putting them together very important right and you could you know combine any of these together and the more you have if you can put three of them together and be good at three of those skills you know even better so don't don't don't be too afraid don't panic but definitely take this seriously i think that it's a it's a very real thing that is happening already now and it's only going to get faster and get worse and 10 years at most the next five years even i think we're going to see a lot a lot a lot of jobs lost so and certainly within 10 all right i'll take a couple questions know I've been super busy and I haven't been around much yeah you know we've been traveling lots of things so I'm gonna try to keep my shows shorter so that I can do them more often so I will take two questions and then I'm gonna go and I'll try to come back and do another show get back into a routine again all right so a couple really quick okay here's a good one first step says please recommend some books for Sales and leadership skills.
There's so many books on sales.
You could start old school, right?
Zig Ziglar, Z-I-G-L-E-R, Zig Ziglar.
That's one that just pops in my head.
There's so many, but that's a good one to start with.
Zig Ziglar, he wrote a lot of books about sales.
So sales is a good skill to have.
Even if it's not your actual job selling.
There are other jobs where you're not a salesman, but you still need to persuade.
You need to sell your ideas.
It's just a great, great, great business skill.
Maybe the most in-demand business skill.
As I said, if you can sell well, you can get a job somewhere.
You're not going to starve.
All right, maybe just do another quick one.
I'll go four more minutes here.
Hey Vladislav, good to see you, he said.
I just woke up at 6 44 am in Moscow, so I plan to do shorter shows, but do them actually, skip back to doing them.
I would go so long with the shows I would that Then it just like it was hard for me to keep doing them.
Even being a translator will disappear, says Eleanor Foley.
Absolutely.
Being a translator is a doomed job.
I believe that is true.
Yes.
Okay, let's see.
Yeah, it says for trucks, replacement is harder from a financial perspective, a single vehicle is a big investment of capital, investment planned over 10 to 15 years.
Not something can swap quickly true true, and that's why it hasn't one of the reasons it hasn't happened yet.
But it will happen, it will happen and what's going to happen is just they'll start, they'll just do it little by little, you know, and of course, it's different for huge companies compared to smaller companies.
A company like Amazon that has tons of money to just burn.
They can just throw money away.
You know, they can just start replacing their old trucks with AI self-driving trucks as soon as they feel it's, you know, good enough and safe enough and cheap enough.
When will that happen exactly?
I don't know, but it will happen.
It's just a matter of when um, and so they'll.
Just i, i'm like i said it's not going to be one day they replace every truck and every driver.
It'll be gradual right, but that's what they did in their warehouses, right?
They first they had humans putting all the things on the shelves, putting everything into the boxes, and then they started getting more and more and more and more robots.
And now, you know, do a youtube, look on youtube video for amazon warehouse, and there's all these robots zooming around doing most of the work.
That's how they'll do it.
Robots are those little robots, are?
You're right?
They're cheaper than a big truck, but it's the same principle.
It'll just it'll.
It might be a little slower for that reason, but again, i think the large companies will do it faster, the ones that have a lot of money, like amazon, and then, you know, smaller trucking companies.
It would happen much more slowly.
They have to wait till the costs come down even more, but the trend is obvious.
What's?
It's just a matter of timing.
Now we don't see those kind of cars here in texas, um says you will.
I think they're testing it in austin.
Maybe you should get on the Waymo site.
I think there was a Texas City.
I know it was, but they're only testing it now.
But it's just, it's going to happen very fast.
The taxis are going to happen super fast because it's working.
I saw it in San Francisco.
They're everywhere in San Francisco, all over the city, everywhere it's working and people are using it and paying for it.
It's already happening and i think even you know uber will probably is going to switch over to that lyft.
They'll all switch over and once that you know if it can work in san francisco, it can work anywhere.
Yeah, so it'll happen in texas probably, because texas is bigger.
They're probably waiting.
My guess is they're waiting till they can do more highways, till they've trained the cars on the highways more because uh, you know, san francisco is a nice small, compact city so they don't need to use the highways, They can just use the normal city streets.
But a lot of places in the United States, because it's big, a lot of the cities are spread out.
But they're training them in LA.
I'm sure they're going to use the highways in LA.
All right, a couple more and then I'm done.
Yeah, like Vladislav says, I use DeepSeek.
For the for last year.
It can translate and analyze text.
It can also solve math and physics problems.
Man, it can do.
These things are getting better and better.
And yeah, like, you know, I think chat GPT is one of the worst ones chat PT has is run.
It's the typical Silicon Valley people, which means it's got a lot of crazy, weird biases and stuff in them.
I think the chinese are actually making some really good ones uh, and there's going to be other independent and it's not just going to be silicon valley and in fact i think a lot of them are going to be outside of that.
I use gab ai.
Gab ai has all.
It's kind of cool.
It's gabgabai.
I don't use gab chat anymore.
I don't.
You know their social media, i don't care, but their ai is amazing.
Their AI uh, because they've got like about I don't know they've, they've got.
They use all the open source ones so you can go in there.
You can say oh, I want to do cloud, I want to do deep seek, I want to do I can't remember.
There's so many.
There's like they've got 12 different ones uh, and then they've got a bunch of.
They've taken those and they've trained them in different areas.
So they've specialized.
So it's a whole bunch of different AIs all in one account.
So really quite good.
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We had a big trip from Indiana to here.
It was a long trip.
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And nicholas says you genuinely changed my life, genuinely.
Because of you, i can confidently speak english today.
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Right, one more and i'm done.
One more, i'm gonna go.
I'm gonna.
I promised i'd keep this shorter and maybe next time i'll do a topic.
I'll talk less on the topic so i can do more questions, but i want to keep it at 30 to 45 minutes.
All right, i'll take.
Uh okay, here we go.
Uh, i'm ed taha.
Do you, do you think ai may change pharmacists or anyone in the medical team?
Absolutely yes, Absolutely yes.
Now, I'm not a pharmacist, so I can't tell you specifically.
I know, but you can just read even just mainstream news stories that are already talking about how they're using it for diagnostics.
For example, I did read about how the AI they're training is better at reading x-rays, better at reading MRIs than the techs are right even then than many of the doctors.
So I think what?
Yeah, you're going to see a lot of that kind of stuff.
The diagnostics where they're diagnostics means you know you're figuring out what's wrong or figuring out the situation.
So you take an x-ray x-rays.
If you're like a normal person like me, you look at an x-ray.
You're like I don't know what is that?
I don't even know what that means.
It just looks like, I can't tell what's going on.
But they're training AI.
Right now they have technicians and, of course, the doctors who look at that and figure it out.
Oh, there's a broken thing here.
This is whatever happening.
But they're already training ai to look at that and analyze that better than the techs.
So they'll replace those jobs and then you'll just have a doctor, one doctor, and he'll just use the ai to analyze things, and of course, he'll still have to be able to do it too.
But i think more and more and more of a lot of the routine medical stuff it will be replaced.
They're going to train it where the a.
They're going to be using the ai to make a lot of the decisions on treatments.
Now the problem is with this is they're going to be training it on on the typical industrial medicine information.
So you're going to be getting industrial medicine treatments, which may not actually, but it'll be as good as what they're doing now.
I don't think it'll be worse.
But I think for a lot of people, you want to still avoid it.
It's not going to, I don't think it'll give better outcomes, but it will be cheaper.
It'll let them do the same thing they're doing now, but again, replacing some of those.
I think the best medical opportunities for jobs are the ones where you're in contact, human contact with the patients.
So, like in the labs and the techs and all of that kind of stuff, can be replaced, I think, by AI and robotics.
Even housekeeping, cleaning, infection control, a lot of that can be done AI, robotics.
So I think it's going to be more of, you know, nursing, therapists, all that's good.
Pharmacy, I don't know. i don't really know you should if you're a pharmacist i think you should research it and find out what's happening already now with ai and pharmacy and you need to research what are they doing what are they researching what are they experimenting with what are they trying and you might find that yeah they are going to replace a lot of pharmacists i don't know all right guys lots of love to you um Yeah, a lot of soft final things is I used Gab chat in the past.
Thanks for the Gab AI.
Yeah, I'm done with social media pretty much.
And Gab social media was kind of a mess.
But the AI is very useful.
It's very useful just because you have a lot of AI, you know, open source.
They've taken in a lot of AI open source programs, whatever you call them, and models.
And you can switch around.
So you can kind of compare.
You could.
You could put in questions or ideas into, like you know, one of them and then see what it answers.
And then put it into another one, see what it answers and compare.
It's useful.
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