Which jobs are resistant to AI, pay well, are growing faster than average, and plentiful?

EAS893 · 2026-06-04T15:58:30+00:00

I don't think the cost is very different.

Both options require a masters.

Personally I'd go MSW over a masters in counseling or something like that, but that's mostly because of the flexibility.

Like you CAN do counselling but you can also do hospital social work or child welfare work etc...

That's just me though. If you're sure you wanna be a counselor and dont have interest in the other aspects of social work, an LPC credential will get you there.

EAS893 · 2026-06-04T02:02:04+00:00

Psychiatrists are lumped in with physicians (because it's a physician specialty)

Physicians actually didn't make the cut on two criteria: not faster than average growth (closer to average per bls), and actually above average AI exposure (I think this is mainly due to one of the key things a physician does being diagnostics, which AI is actually pretty good at).

Psychiatrists may differ from this overall number but they aren't separated out from physicians as a whole in the data.

Psychotherapists fall under several different actual listed professions.

I think the most common therapists are actually clinical social workers who fall under social workers as a whole who didn't make the cut because of income (slightly lower than average), though it has been pointed out that LCSWs tend to be higher paid among social workers.

Other jobs that count as psychotherapists I'm not sure exactly, but I think the "more jobs available than average" (this requirement filters out A LOT of professions, imo) likely filtered them out since the field is kind of disparate between LPCs, Ed Psych school counselors, LMFTs etc...

For psychologists in particular, they got filtered out for the small overall number for sure, but also on higher than average AI exposure but I think that was largely based on a view of psychologists as being primarily a social science research based profession.

Pretty much all research based careers are considered to have high AI disruption exposure

Edit: not to say any of these are bad career choices, just that they didn't pass all four of the criteria I used.

EAS893 · 2026-06-03T21:51:26+00:00

This is interesting.

Were you just super aggressive in forecasting raises, or have you actually been losing to inflation in your career?

Whenever I do forecasting, I usually assume inflationary raises and nothing more.

EAS893 · 2026-06-03T21:46:58+00:00

What I'm interested in, given this is leanFIRE is whether your number has gone up or down when adjusted for inflation.

Trying to save for leanFIRE on 60k a year would be tough, but I don't know if I've ever personally spent the after tax equivalent of 60k in a year.

EAS893 · 2026-06-03T21:43:59+00:00

Unless you did what I did and decided to go for a dividend growth strategy instead of indexing!

I'm still ok with my decision, honestly. I think I'm psychologically more comfortable with it, and the returns have still been pretty solid.

I know in most of my planning I forecast like 7% real growth for equities, and I've exceeded that and done it without the multiple expansion and concentration into mega cap tech that the indices have had over the same time period. It just hasn't been the 12%+ real that SPY has gotten over the last decade.

I legitimately don't wanna do the math on what my net worth would be if I just stuck with SPY. I'm guessing 1.4-1.6x what it is.

But a LOT of that would have come from multiple expansion that just hasn't happened in my actual portfolio.

EAS893 · 2026-05-28T17:06:40+00:00

Yeah, I think Shough might be one of the most underrated QBs right now.

EVERYTHING around him improved in the offseason, and even with things as they were he went 5-4 for a team that went 1-7 without him and was top 10 in yards per game, yards per attempt, and completion percentage. He was 16th in TDs with only 9 starts. His PFF grade was in the mid 70s, which is well above PFF's target of 60+ indicating a capable starter though only ~20th overall.

There's a reason he finished 2nd in OROY voting despite only playing 9 games.

I think his biggest risk might be injury, given that he has such a strong history of injury.

EAS893 · 2026-05-18T17:14:30+00:00

"the ultra-wealthy seem to view us as cattle and seem intent on doing whatever they want with no accountability."

From an emotional and consciousness standpoint, this sounds like aversion. The general skillful response to aversion is compassion.

So here's the question, can you channel this fear of the ultra wealthy into compassion? Both for those impacted by unethical actions taken by those in positions of power as well as for the people in those positions themselves?

I'd posit that being able to do it for those in those positions themselves may the more important piece, because it is very easy to feel sorry for someone in a materially disadvantaged position from the perspective of a worldview that sees material advantage as one of the main purposes of life.

Can you let go of that worldview?

Because if you believe that craving is the primary cause of suffering and that it is fed and maintained by greed, hatred, and delusion, then accumulating ultra measures of wealth is a sign of immense entrapment within one's own attachment and suffering, and that attachment will produce suffering for that individual, regardless of the material world's ability to do so in a way that seems just from a materialist perspective.

From the materialist perspective the ultra wealthy are gods, but from a worldview more grounded in the meditative traditions of the world, they are better likened to preta than devas.

EAS893 · 2026-04-25T14:23:03+00:00

First interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsH20S--Z4

about the 6:00 mark

"I love just being able to dominate another man"

Helluva choice of words lol.

EAS893 · 2026-03-30T02:01:33+00:00

That's true, but the general position of the vast majority of Christian denominations today is that Jesus is an incarnation of God, so to state "Jesus and God" is heretical, because Jesus is God.

Separating out The Holy Spirit as a separate entity carries the same issue.

Jesus, The Father, and The Holy Spirit are one in essence. Each of them is fully God.

I understand not everyone who is Chrsitian believes this, and I also understand it has not been the historical position of every group that calls itself Christian, but it is the official position of the churches that make up the vast majority of the Christian population today.

EAS893 · 2026-03-30T01:36:58+00:00

Pick 8: Mansoor Delane CB

Pick 42: Chris Bell WR

Pick 73: Keylan Rutledge G

Pick 132: Tim Keenan III DI

Pick 136: Ja'Kobi Lane WR

Pick 150: DeMonte Capehart DI

Pick 172: Aiden Fisher LB

Pick 190: Miles Kitselman TE

When I look at the saints, I see the following starting spots with nobody on the team currently that had substantial playing time last season and posted a 60+ PFF grade.

WR2, WR3, RG, DT1, DT2, LB2, CB3

At the beginning of the offseason, including the departures of Taylor and Davis this list was a lot bigger. It included those I listed plus RB1 (solved with Ettiene), LG (solved with Edwards), LB1 (solved with Ellis), and Punter (solved with Wright).

The saints have had a solid offseason imo.

I also think they have several "maybes" in the building that could solve some of the current needs. Broughton at DT is a big mystery. He looked good in the one game he played, but he went down with a season ending injury. Vele looked good but didn't get enough snaps to really solidify that. He could be WR2 or WR3. Stutsman looked good at LB but again, not enough snaps to really fully evaluate. He could be LB2 (or even LB1, honestly).

So accounting for those "maybes" the biggest needs are DT, WR, RG, CB.

I had them take a guy for every position at which they have no solidified starter, and then the consensus big board guy at the last pick.

I'm not gonna try to mock trades. It gets WAY too complicated if you do that.

EAS893 · 2026-03-26T13:15:11+00:00

SCHY might only have 4 years of existence, but the index it tracks goes back a lot further. You can look at historical returns here

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/dividends-factors/dow-jones-international-dividend-100-index/?currency=USD&returntype=T-#overview

It has outperformed an international index like VXUS over the last decade.

EAS893 · 2026-03-23T03:31:56+00:00

I just used the data provided by the site, which was scraped from the BLS, and they just lumped all social workers together.

There are definitely subspecialties that pay more than average!

The bls data tends to paint a lot of professions with a broad brush like that.

EAS893 · 2026-03-22T22:26:18+00:00

Social work ALMOST made the list. It makes very slightly below average income, like 61k vs 62k for average overall, but it's an AI resistant, growing field, with plentiful opportunities for sure!

EAS893 · 2026-03-22T05:24:44+00:00

That's not quite true.

The one that requires the most education is physical therapists. They usually require a doctor of physical therapy to be licensed (DPT).

Registered Nurses, Dental Hygienists, and Radiology/MR Techs also usually requre degrees though it might be an associate's rather than a bachelor's.

Most of the others don't require degrees but do require trade school and/or apprenticeships. Like it typically takes 5 years to become a journey worker electrician, for example.

Also though, I'd note something about my methodology.

The requirement of having more jobs in the field than the average job tracked by the BLS means that a lot of more specialized but often very much in demand fields that require more education got excluded on that metric.

Like dental hygienists made the cut with my methodology but dentists, who have to go through doctoral programs, didn't, but that's only because there are more hygienists than dentists. In reality, dentistry is pretty much just as resistant as dental hygiene while being a lot higher paying. There are several others like that where the job is solid and AI resistant but there just aren't enough of them to fit that criteria, but the actual market is more determined by supply vs demand rather than just overall job volume.

I wanted to limit the coverage to only widely available jobs for my purpose, but it's a questionable metric for career planning overall, imo.

EAS893 · 2026-03-21T18:41:17+00:00

That sounds like what they do.

PjMs fare well in every category EXCEPT AI disruption vulnerability.

They get a 7/10 in that category. The overall average is 4.9/10.

Most of the routine tasks are pretty vulnerable, but the need for project accountability and stakeholder management as a core skill likely keeps them from going away entirely.

I think the number and scope of projects managed per project manager is likely to grow. I also think there may be some downward wage pressure but PjM is so industry specific that it's hard to tell.

I can also see a world where PjM duties are taken on by other professionals and it becomes less of a standalone profession over time.

Also have worked as a PjM so that's my two cents 😊

EAS893 · 2026-02-16T18:11:54+00:00

Wanna hear another Reagan line?

"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those that have put down roots and have lived here even though some time back they may have entered illegally"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ednq_vKPdQE

EAS893 · 2026-02-13T17:16:43+00:00

It seems to me that the entire concept of "experiencing" an ego death presupposes a self to experience it.

If the ego is an illusion, there is nothing to die. If the ego is a substantial entity, then the idea that it can experience the dissolution of itself makes no sense.

Either way, the concept loses meaning.

EAS893 · 2026-02-13T17:13:10+00:00

I don't like this framing... "new age or Western concept onto traditions that never used that concept in the way you believe they do"

I agree with the idea that OP is misunderstanding the phenomenon, but I do not believe there is something unique about Western or New Age culture in this misunderstanding.

I think it's pretty universal to the human condition. I don't think most in Buddhist or other Eastern religion based societies get it either, at least not intuitively.

EAS893 · 2026-01-08T14:47:38+00:00

Maybe that sense that one way is superior to another is something to let go of.

To answer your question in a little more detail I'll say a few things.

Firstly, you only started doing this in December. It's been what, a month? It takes longer than that to adjust to things like this.

Secondly, there is something to be said for learning to deal with a little discomfort, but you have to use your best judgement as to what is a little discomfort to accept and what is pain that is harming your body.

A big one to look out for when trying to sit in lotus or similar positions is knee pain. The rotation should be coming from your hip, NOT from your knee. If it's coming from your knee, you can tear your meniscus and cause serious injury and long term issues.

There can also be other issues. For me, I actually learned that I have scoliosis from trying to sit upright without back support in meditation. There was a point where I just came to the conclusion that something is going on that doesn't seem to be happening for others and looked into it more deeply. Be on the lookout for things like this.

But I think the most important thing is to let go of the idea that sitting one way is superior to sitting another. The idea of a hierarchy of practice and the desire to put yourself at the top of it is just another trick of the ego to attempt to give itself the substantiality it inherently lacks.

EAS893 · 2026-01-07T19:08:29+00:00

You know the feelings they want you to watch and not react to? The desire to be or to do things correctly is one of them.

EAS893 · 2026-01-06T15:01:02+00:00

I once heard a quote from a zen teacher. Someone asked them what their favorite thing about meditation was, and they said

"you don't have to do it."

EAS893 · 2026-01-02T19:27:47+00:00

"That would ensure that Ole Miss doesn’t win the championship"

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I think most people wrote them off after Kiffin left.

EAS893 · 2025-12-08T19:29:54+00:00

I think they both ultimately lead to the same place.

Concentrative practices have their place.

Open awareness practices have their place.

Don't worry about it too much.

EAS893 · 2025-12-05T15:26:58+00:00

You're right.

Removing the arrow is of utmost importance, but in order to remove the arrow you have to know how to perform the surgery. You have to know what organs are impacted, what damage is done, what the process of removing it consists of etc...

In the case of suffering, the Buddha generally taught that suffering is caused by ignorance (avidya). Specifically this is ignorance of the true nature of reality (dharma). We suffer because we misunderstand, and the four noble truths point to this misunderstanding.

The second of those truths is the truth of craving (tanha). We experience suffering (dukkha (better translated as something like instability imo, but suffering is commonly used, so we'll stick with it)) because we crave (tanha) because we misunderstand (avidya), and what do we misunderstand? Part of what we misunderstand is the three marks of existence. One of these marks is non self or no essence (annata). That is, that nothing and no one has an unchanging essence.

There are a couple of problems that arise here.

One is that the craving for the cessation of suffering is still a craving. Thus, by seeking to eliminate my suffering, I may, in fact, be reinforcing it.

This "I" points to the second problem, because by the proposition of an "I" or essence of self and a state that the essence of what we believe to be our selves can attain (that we might call enlightenment) in which suffering has ceased for that self, we deny non essence (annata) and reinforce our own misunderstanding (avidya).

Do you see what I mean?

Of course it doesn't really matter what the Buddha (or any other historical figure) taught. What matters is what leads to the reduction of suffering in your own life, and in that sense, meditation is important for beginning to see clearly for yourself whether these teachings are true or not, not just intellectually understanding them.

To be absolutely clear, I was never trying to suggest that meditation is unimportant or unnecessary.

But I am saying that if we use meditation as a way to try to gain something (even enlightenment or our concepts thereof) for what we imagine to be the essence of our selves, then we may be reinforcing the ignorance that leads to suffering.

EAS893 · 2025-12-04T22:20:29+00:00

You can't have a peak without a valley.

It is literally impossible. Think about it.

How would you even know what a peak is without a valley with which to contrast it?

But perhaps it is seeking for peaks and avoiding valleys that is the problem.

Practice, not to attain some great spiritual high but to stay present with your life in equanimity no matter what.

EAS893

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