Anybody in your family work as a steam locomotive engineer or maker of buggy whips? There's not much call for those jobs anymore.
And there's no guarantee that the jobs we do today will be needed in a few years.
One study suggests that close to HALF the jobs in the workplace now will be eliminated by technology in the next 20 years.
The non-profit WorkingNation works to prepare people for this future. Joan Lynch, Chief Content and Programming Officer, visits with details.
And the Oregon Employment Department tracks the trends as well.
Economist Guy Tauer from the Medford office joins us, too.