re: What type of career would you recommend to an 18 year old in today's age?

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With what you know now, what would you tell someone like me to look into?

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It depends on what you're interested in.

Trade schools right now are a ticket to print your own money, if you enjoy the work and become good at it. Plumbing, A/C repair, electrical, welding... all of those are pretty much robot-proof (at least for the foreseeable future). As the population grows and more people continue to look for white-collar jobs, trade skills will continue to be important and lucrative.

If you enjoy mechanics, go into robotics. As no-skill and low-skill wages go higher, automation/robotics becomes more in demand as companies move to replace human workers with mechanical ones. As long as there is automation, there will be a need for people to fix it when it breaks down.

If you enjoy coding, get into AI programming. I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket though as it's currently so much the rage that the market may well be saturated with AI programmers by the time you finish college.

Avoid anything in marketing, sociology or arts like the plague unless you aspire to be head barista at some Starbucks.