Bad news sells.
So, Bloomberg's article about the 10 jobs most likely to disappear is attracting lots of eyeballs.
It doesn't list practicing law. But, with the accelerating pace of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI), it should.
On Abovethelaw.com (ATL), Robert Ambrogi keeps up-dating busy-bee LexisNexis in that niche.
Eventually the traditional law firm could operate with a small core of seasoned legal strategists and lots of subscriptions to AI services. The first jobs to go will be those contract assignments in document review. The next will be those of inexperienced associates.
However, that shouldn't be news.
The traditional concept of "job" is totally mid-20th century. That was the era of the BigJobs.
We Baby Boomers recall landing great ones. And we are the last generation who could travel a linear career path. Perhaps DailyJobCuts.com should change its name to "DailyLossofIncome.com. That site would report how many income-producing slots were shut down.
According to researchers at the University of Oxford, in the coming decades, about half of the current jobs (which it's already smart to think of as income-producing slots) in America will vanish. And, no expert can predict what will replace those slots.
Also, and this is the really tough nut to crack, no one can specify the most effective and efficient way to find work. As is obvious, so many displaced lawyers are doing that all wrong.
Network? That could get you labeled as a pest or, worse, a has-been.
Be aggressive. That can make you come across as desperate.
Creative. So many have been too out of the box.
In the box. That doesn't get attention.
Story-telling is the meme of our time. The stories which should be in demand, on a grassroots basis, are the personal testimonies of those who got work. It's increasingly irrelevant that the story-teller held onto the work.
On ATL, under the pen name of Alex Rich, current editor Karen Rubino chronicled her search for work in the document-review ghetto. She provided details on everything from the need for anger management when being treated as if you were invisible to hustling for the next gig before the current one ended. That story-telling helped land her a full time job at ATL.
It had been my story-telling on my communications blog http://janegenova.com which resulted in a major marketing communications project with a career service. The saga was about the shame I couldn't shake about losing a BigJob way back when.
Is it obvious to you now that, yes, mankind is back to hunting for dinner every day day? Yesterday, my dog LOV and I had ate well. Yet again. I had bagged an assignment, paid by PayPal, for editing a proposal for venture capital.
That's done. Before I go out there today, I have to figure out where exactly I should be hunting.
For instance, should I leverage this skill in proposals?
Or will dinner be easier to find in the lucrative but downsizing book-ghostwriting niche?
Smart people want to hear that story. People stuck in the mid-20th century want to hear about career paths.
Members of the legal media who want to be helpful to employment-challenged lawyers should solicit those stories.
My own story about working as a security guard in an inner city Home Depot back in 2003-2004 has had more than a million downloads. Here you can pick up some hands-on insight about how to go hunting when your old bow and arrows not longer bring home the bacon. BTW, my tale of a crash and bounce-back brought in a four-year legal-oriented assignment.
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