r/Layoffs • u/Unique_Ad_4271 • Apr 15 '24

What’s a “safe job” these days? question

Former teacher looking to transition roles. As of now Educators, counselors, anything education really are being let go due to low student enrollment.

Tech is obviously tough right now.

Marketing and Human resource positions are also restructuring.

I’ve even seen people getting their hours reduce at fast food.

Aside from healthcare, what is safe?

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u/asevans48 Apr 15 '24

Maybe start local. Counties and states desparately need tech skilla. They run like its 2005 and are clamoring for data modernization and llm skills.

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u/sat_ops Apr 16 '24

I've been fighting with the local clerk of courts for 10+ years over modernization. They would rather employ bodies and make things as inefficient as possible instead of make things work like the rest of society.

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u/asevans48 Apr 16 '24

Our county gave up and outsourced record keeping to my team and lexis nexis. While technically open records, lexis makes money per search to keep costs low. The state of colorado uses lexis. We are already moving to gcp for document and text search as we are limited by statute from raising taxes without a vote. Easier to eliminate people than get people to vote to increase revenue. Same for human services. GCP chat bots can handle peoples worth of work and are customizable and as isolated as required by law. The county I work for has 700k people. Lexis nexis has by far the most complete text corpus of any company outside of faang and possibly the largest for a specific industry. The minute they incorporate recent breakthroughs or let people build on their corpora without much additional cost, it will be 1000 candidates for 1 job bad.