10 Ways Hi-tech Will Affect Your Career. Part 6

Microsoft, is working hard to perfect speech recognition in Windows XP. This means that support personnel, secretaries, administrative assistants, and data entry persons may soon see less need for their services. If you are working in these fields look to expand your skills or to enter other fields just in case.

7. Genetics. If you think that the Internet has taken us by storm just wait to you see the social implications of the Genetics. With the mapping of Human DNA, we may all live 25 years longer. Therefore, we will all have to plan for longer retirements and better investments. This will create more jobs for financial planners, estate planners, brokers and traders, and accountants. The Genetics industry will explode and create new jobs and profits for pharmaceutical companies.

8. Fitness, Spirituality, Wholistic Lifestyle, and Health. As the population ages naturally and becomes more liberated (or alienated by technology depending on your perspective), there will be the need to increase the quality of life. The most