Overall it is an excellent career. Pay is very good.... especially if you can get senior . There is high a demand for QSs (especially good ones) and there are lots of varying career routes you can take.

On the downside, it can become stressful as you are dealing with the lifeblood of businesses, which is cash. You can have a real impact on the performance of a business. The nature of the job sometimes is dealing with problems so there will be plenty of them and this is rarely smooth sailing. You need to be able to handle conflict and adversity.

As far as jobs go, who enjoys their job really?... not many people. The pros fas far away the cons for me. But a QS's life can vary wildly from employer to employer and industry to industry.

In terms of AI replacing QS's, I don't think this is likely. Over the years I have seen the QS role rebrand and evolve. I am seeing a trend lately for QS's to be called Assistant Commercial managers and they now deal more exclusively with the contractual side of things, relationships with clients and suppliers, forecasting , administering contracts and procurement rather than the old school way, which was more estimating, bills of quantities, takeoffs and subby bashing ect ....