Ask HN: Most Valuable Jobs of 2025?

The smarter tool (i.e. AI) mega-trend will continue and there is a lot to automate across the globe. This will sprawl into biotech (drug discovery) and energy management.

I don't see anything changing that much in less than 4 years. I think the most common jobs will still be boring CRUD and support. The highest paying stuff will likely be AI/data related in fintech or some other highly rewarding and nonproductive area.

Same jobs as today.

Maybe just AI/ML would become less and less lucrative due to a huge glut of people graduating into it.

> or some other highly rewarding and nonproductive area

Yeah I second this

My picks:

1) Fintech. It'll be messy with the aftermath of COVID, moratoriums, etc. Combine it with new and old banking regulations, islamic banking, ways to finance the poor, bubbles popping, crowdfunding. Then you have crypto and retail investors. It's going to be a bloodbath. And there's plenty of space for the young and hungry.

2) Remote work. Not just non-offices, but working internationally. If you're going to hire someone who doesn't come into office, why not just hire someone whose living costs are 10x lower? Inversely, there are a lot of problems with it; who's solving them?

3) AI creativity. It's more creative than humans now. Where will it be 4 years from now? We're seeing the side effects of too much creativity - it turns your brain into mush. It'll be a new revolution, like assembly lines, but in the opposite direction. We're experimenting how much we can totally delegate to AI and how much support infrastructure we need to build around it.