The rise of artificial intelligence has raised the possibility of declining job prospects in some sectors — particularly for younger workers — but Abigail Fulton, executive director of the Construction Foundation of B.C., says “skilled tradespeople will be the last ones voted off the island.”
Trades have been in high demand for decades. Years of pushing kids towards white collar jobs has left skilled trades under employed for basically the whole time I’ve been alive.
AI has just exasperated the issue with the tech jobs market and highlighted the need for folk willing to do the work that keeps everything else built up and ticking over.
I’d argue also that the expanded ability to work from home after covid probably hurt those industries as folks seek jobs that can be done remotely.
Not saying there’s anything wrong with WFH ofc, but I would rather have a lower paying job where I can work from home than a better paid hands on job.
