April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 23m
English
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Where the Jobs Are and Where They’ll Be
I wish I could tell you definitively what jobs will be in hot demand for those of us over age 50 in the coming years, but I’m not a fortune teller. During the pandemic some job fields grew appreciably, while others shrank, only to recover or slip away entirely. There are new jobs emerging that you never heard of a few years ago, and with each passing year, technology, world health events, and climate change issues are creating new ones at a rapid pace.
Life has a way of whipsawing around us in a heartbeat. But there are a few broad industries that have been on the rise and are likely to continue to grow in the next several years, generating many new jobs. This roundup below is meant to get you thinking ...