Topic 11: Unemployment

Jobs that are more resistant to unemployment are the ones that the society needs. Careers such as doctors, cooks, engineers…etc. are the ones people need. People would always get sick, would always need food, and would always want more advanced technology. As long as people want to live, the demand exists. Workers in those fields thus are hard to be replaced. Oppositely, jobs are less resistant to unemployment are the ones that don’t require skills and easy to be replaced. Since everyone can do it, the employer can be relatively easier to find cheaper worker who wants to do the job. As a result there is a higher chance for the worker to get fired at any time. For my future career I want to be a psychologist. As people’s physical needs are fulfilled, they start to require cares for mental states. Since psychological treatments gradually become the society’s need, psychologists might be more resistant to unemployment. Yet, one concern is that there are more and more people study in this field, which increase the supply and make the competition harder. It raises the potential risk for unemployment. Despite concerning if I can survive by doing that career, interest in studying psychology plays an important role in motivating and pursuing me of being a psychologist.