There’s an exciting future of work ahead of us - so why is the high school careers algorithm pushing unrealistic careers in spying, dog walking and podcasting?
School career advisers are like a backwards Google. You can ask them any question you want, but they’ll only have one answer: journalism.
My daughter thinks it’s hilarious. While not taking the counsellor’s advice, she enjoys watching me, a journalist clinging to the wreckage of the media industry, become enraged. And I’m not the only parent bristling. One of my kids’ schoolmates made the mistake of saying she owned a pet and enjoyed the outdoors and was mortified by the recommendation that she become a dog walker. Even a 16-year-old knows that’s not serious advice.Meanwhile, my other daughter was told that a career in ophthalmology was a match. She wasn’t alone — apparently half of the kids in her science class were told to consider the same clinical specialisation.
Many of us are hostage to what is the most liberating yet obscene middle-class privileges of them all: the belief that we need to find something we enjoy rather than considering industries that are going to need workers in the future. We’ll need people to manage the generative AI revolution, early childhood educators, project managers to oversee our sustainability challenges and engineers to help build all that military hardware we have commissioned.Meanwhile, tertiary institutions provide courses without regard to the career prospects afforded by sunset industries. You’d be hard-pressed to find a university that doesn’t offer media studies, for example. Or film production.
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