Which Jobs Will Disappear In 10 Years Time

 

When people ask me if futures literacy can predict which jobs will vanish in the next ten years, I usually smile. It’s a natural question, but also one that shows how much we want certainty in a world that refuses to give it. Futures literacy isn’t about crystal balls or neat lists of doomed professions. It’s about learning how to see the future differently, as a range of possibilities rather than one fixed road. And when it comes to work, that shift in perspective makes all the difference.

Think about it—ten years ago, who would have guessed that being a “content creator” or an “AI prompt engineer” would even be jobs? At the same time, many roles we thought were safe have been reshaped or even made redundant by automation and changing habits. If I tried to hand you a definitive list of which jobs will disappear by 2035, I’d be pretending to know the unknowable. What I can do, through the lens of futures literacy, is help you notice the signals, ask better questions, and imagine different scenarios.

Maybe data entry clerks, cashiers, or telemarketers will fade as machines handle those repetitive tasks. But will teachers vanish? Probably not—they might just work alongside AI tutors instead of against them. Will doctors be replaced by diagnostic software? Not likely—they’ll still be there for the human side of healing, which no machine can replicate. Even lawyers might find their roles shifting, spending less time buried in paperwork and more time negotiating, interpreting, or advocating. The truth is that jobs rarely vanish overnight; they evolve, and futures literacy prepares us to expect that.

What excites me most is how new roles keep surfacing. Green energy experts, AI ethicists, care workers in an aging world—these are areas opening up right in front of us. And if we’re futures literate, we don’t just watch them happen, we start building pathways toward them. That’s the power of seeing the future as a resource: we can shape our education, our policies, even our personal choices, in ways that open more doors instead of closing them.

So no, futures literacy won’t tell you exactly which jobs will disappear. But it will help you live with uncertainty in a way that feels less frightening and more creative. It asks us to use the future not for prediction, but for preparation. When we do that, even if some roles fade away, we’re ready to adapt, ready to grow, and maybe even ready to invent the jobs no one has dreamed of yet.