With technology continuously increasing at breakneck speed daily, there’s always a certain level of fear about whether or not your choice of career is going to be around forever. While many may worry that the advent of computers will take away the human touch in many jobs, due to the fact they’re cheaper to pay, and easier to use, one website has done the hard work and has answered the age-old question of “will robots take my job?”

The aptly-titled Will Robots Take My Job will answer that exact question for you. Punch in your job, and the handy-dandy website will let you know just how safe your career is. If your job title happens to be that of a ‘cashier’, then we’ve got some bad news; ‘you are doomed,’ thanks to a 97% chance of automation.

But what about the music sector? Well are you a musician or singer? Then don’t worry, your job is listed as ‘totally safe’, with only a 7.4% chance of automation. Likewise, are you an actor? You might want to ‘start worrying’, since there’s a 37% chance of automation. Radio announcer? ‘No worries’. Music director or composer? ‘Totally safe’. If you happen to repair or maintain electronic equipment and instruments, then you might want to worry, because ‘robots are watching’.

While the website is in good fun, it’s based on some real science. Inspired by a report titled “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”, the website’s programmers used data from the report to work out just how susceptible your job is to an eventual robot takeover. While the data in question is more suited towards the US job market, our close ties to the land of the free make this pretty useful for us Aussies too.

While many industries are safe, who knows what the future will hold? If you do happen to be in one of those industries that will be overtaken by automation in the future, we’ll leave you with a track to sing to your new robotic overlords as you help them learn the ropes.

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