“10 Year Challenge” has been all the rage in the net recently, thinking back a decade ago, the job market has changed pretty drastically too. Where once considered as a successful job many has since been shunned by the upcoming generation in preference to a career that gives them more freedom and flexibility but with the same payscale.

This post will compare how the recent Industrial 4.0 trend has shaped the trending job market as opposed to glamour jobs 10 years back. We have covered 4 High Income Jobs and Skills in 2020, which we than compared with high paying jobs of 2010.

If there was any job that can be considered as an instant success of parenting it would be to land a job as a doctor or medical practitioner. There is no bigger dream for a parent than seeing their child land a dream job as a doctor. Years of hard work required to be a medical practitioner, however, the job life has been touted as one of the most grueling career choices in the world. 

Looking at a similar high paid career in the IT field, cyber security has been emerging as one of the most demanded positions in companies of all industries. Being not only one of high income jobs of 2020, cybersecurity is also the highly demanded job across various industries.

If there was any job that can be considered as an instant success of parenting it would be to land a job as a doctor or medical practitioner. There is no bigger dream for a parent than seeing their child land a dream job as a doctor. Years of hard work required to be a medical practitioner, however, the job life has been touted as one of the most grueling career choices in the world. 

Looking at a similar high paid career in the IT field, cyber security has been emerging as one of the most demanded positions in companies of all industries.

Unlike regression in other used to be popular jobs, pilot has always remained as one of the careers which has seen more demand due to the growing airline industry. However, due to national career, MAS Airline hit with slump in profit, experienced pilots have been seen as more of a company asset and harder for newbie to take the steering wheel. Where the recent COVID-19 pandemic breakout also has significantly affected the industry, we would like to compare the job to one which is virtually not affected by the virus pandemic.

Compared to a pilot, network engineer is a pretty location constraints job, which has its perks. The travelling option might depend on your company’s network infrastructure location. Network engineers enable an organization operations to function normally, 

Source: https://www.payscale.com/research/MY/Job=Network_Engineer/Salary

While Engineering is a large scope where the job scope and pay can vary, it’s to be noted that an engineer degree has been considered as one of the toughest degrees comparable to that of a medical degree. 

Another emerging new job in the market, Cloud Computing, has been growing in demand due to organization needs to move their data source to a more accessible environment. Growing in tandem with cyber security courses and certification, due to their relative new domain, cloud computing has been growing in demand continuously as the cloud certification offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft Azure has been getting more specific by role.

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