Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Top 5 Careers of the future.


In case you haven’t looked outside your window as yet, things are changing fast, and rapidly so. While I believe that traditional careers like medicine, commerce, law and engineering will continue to be in demand in years to come, there are some new emerging careers that will dominate in the near future. So, these are the top 5 careers which I believe will be in demand in the near future.

1. Data miners/Data Scientists.
The information being churned out is simply mind boggling. We simply don’t know what to do with all this information. Professionals who will make sense of the data, and unearth useful insights that we can digest and use fast will be most in demand. And it’s really not hard to figure that out. Apart from natural resources, companies that deal with information are the most valued. Think of media companies, telecommunication companies like Safaricom, Airtel, Orange, and Yu, or internet giants like Google, Facebook and twitter. These companies don’t produce the information itself, but they make useful insights, and distribute the
information to a mass audience. The traditional route for data miners would be Computer Science/IT, TV and radio presenters, journalists amongst other related careers.

2. Entertainers/ Creative Artists.
Are you feeling stressed, then you probably need to listen to a sentimental song from a musician. While as a country we generally have an apathy for the creative arts, this is starting to change. Who would have believed that one could have sold a painting for 100,000 shillings? But statistics do show that it is not Kenyans that are buying the creative works. It’s mostly bought by foreigners. I can imagine a Kenyan bargaining for a piece of art, ‘ati kuchora tu na unaitisha elfu mia moja?’ However, even if these sums seem mind boggling to us, the Kenyan artists are getting the short end of the stick. Foreigners buy the paintings for a few thousand shillings, and then sell off the piece of art in foreign countries for millions. Worse still, there is no single national art gallery in Kenya. If the industry gets its house in order, then no doubt, creative artists and entertainers will have a field day.

3. Renewable energy experts.
Everyone is clamoring for a reduction in the emission of green houses, and renewable energy is thought of as a viable option. Even though the explosive growth in the sector seems to have floundered in recent years, it is still a good minefield. In Kenya, wind energy exploration is already underway in Turkana, and geothermal energy exploration is also underway. Solar energy is expensive to install, but easy to run, so we could expect to see many households generating their own power. The traditional route is through engineering, although make sure that your course has been registered by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB), so that you can practice safely after graduation, and avoid going back to campus for additional semesters after graduation, as some students of some public universities have had to do.
4. Biostatistics/ Bioinformatics
With research in the medical and biological fields getting ever more complex, these professionals stand a good chance in future employment. The good thing is that these professionals essentially perform jobs that would have been done by three different people. They do the job of a statistician, a computer programmer and a research scientist/biologist/chemist.

5. Farming.
I know it sounds creepy to tell a young person that they should aspire to be a farmer. However, soon, food is going to be the new gold, and who better to be richer than a farmer. However, the shift will have to be from subsistence farming to agribusiness farming, meaning that your education could still help you become a better farmer. With enough skills and experience, you could turn farming into a successful business venture.
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