What Jobs Have Low Requirements?

Warehouse pickers who only need basic number literacy still haven't been replaced—yet—simply because there aren't robots purpose-built for these specific scenarios. When they arrive, they'll be displaced too. Look at Procter & Gamble's assembly lines: in the past decade, headcount dropped from over a hundred workers on one line to just three.

Low-skill jobs are invariably low-margin businesses with razor-thin profits—hard work, poor reward.

On recently trading the white-collar shirt for blue-collar labor

Still, everyone finds it tough past 35.

38-year-old stay-at-home mom of two shares her job search experience so far this year—lost, venting, seeking advice