Gen z do just do in droves and landing Trading job. You are in six -digit careers who use your wishes for more travel and less time at a desk without student debt.
But not all of these glitter are gold. Many of these jobs are associated with their own risks.
For example, take wind turbine technicians. It was that The fastest growing job in the United States last year and does not need a degree. But the work is Far from it, just: Technicians look extreme weather, bring 50 pounds and climb high ladders into narrow rooms.
Despite the sum, the safest non-degree role is still on a desk.
Studies by Yijin Hardware analyzed jobs based on fatal injury rates, forecast openings (2023 to 2033), medium wages and educational requirements – and the admission of No. 1 are office and support functions.
These roles offer less physical risk, consistent demand and decent salaries – which they are particularly appealing for gene -zers for the search for stability without a degree.
According to research, the 5 safest jobs from 2025, for which no conclusion is required, are as follows:
- Office and administrator support
- Production worker
- Installation and repair
- Construction and extraction
- Transport and material movement
“Safe” office jobs can be a ticking time bomb
Entry office jobs in admin and support may still be the safest bet for non-degree genes, but unfortunately they could dry out for you.
Even well -trained students can currently be found “unemployed“As an employer, a” waiting and watch strategy “start in the middle of AI progress and economic uncertainties. The graduates in Great Britain have been in front of the worst labor market since 2018, since employers warn the hiring and use of AI to reduce costs Indeed. Like companies IntelPresent IBM And Google I have frozen thousands of potential new roles that the AI will probably take over in the next 5 years.
And entry roles such as office administrators are the first to be shortened.
At the global investment company Carlyle earlier Google for articles and requirement documents manually. Now the work of AI is being done and the company changes to the hiring of employees at the junior level, which can ensure that the work is correct.
CEOs have also enforced their setting strategy. Bill Balderaz, CEO of the Columbus -based consulting company Futurety, told The Wall Street Journal He decided Do not set a summer internship.
Despite the headwind, research forecast 19,000 new jobs in this sector in the next ten years – less than the 63,000 new possibilities predicted by transport, but still more than in repair or construction (between 11,000 and 15,000).
‘Dangerous’ trading jobs
Commercial jobs have a moment. Advertised like the more intelligent, safer alternative “irrelevant”Overpriced degrees and (exposed risk of automated) entry -level jobs, around 78% of the Americans state that they have noticed one Great According to a survey of 2024 Harris in young people such as carpentry, electrical work and welding. You are not wrong. The commercial school is really enrolled Post-Pandemiceven exceed university Enrollment.
However, the new research results suggest that the reality is not as stable or future-proof as it is recorded.
Yijin hardware found that trading jobs are among the “most dangerous” for non-degree. Beating, hunting, fishing and garbage have the highest death rate at the workplace, paired with unpredictable working conditions and limited opportunities. Not a single entry -level office job has made the lower ranking of your list.
It is not the first study to indicate that gen z may look at manual work through pink glasses. Accordingly Another new Wallethub study Commercial roles in the best and worst US American American workplaces dominate the list of list. Welder, car mechanic, boiler makers and authors are all among the least promising career starters.
According to the researchers, these roles have badly rated due to the limited availability of jobs and the weak growth potential and their potentially dangerous nature.
“Although trade work is not as easy to automate as some office jobs, new technologies such as prefabrication and robotics take over parts of the workload, which can reduce demand” Assets. You are also not immune to the masses redundancies And the grace of interest rates and demand.
And even worse, mostly than not, many trading jobs may not make Z happier than a desk job. Another study Electricians as the least happy worker of all. According to research, the physically demanding nature of the job and more than 40 working weeks were not made up for by the just “decent” salary. Maybe surprisingly, not a single trading job has made the list of the happiest jobs.
