Daniel Priestley: AI Will Make Plumbers Earn More Than Lawyers! (2029 PREDICTION)

I was looking at the top ten jobs that are most likely to be disrupted by AI, and I really do worry about this.

So the nature of the economy is changing. For a long time, blue-collar work like plumbers, electricians, bricklayers has been devalued. But it could be in the next couple of years, these are the roles that are elevated the most, and that plumbers regularly earn more than lawyers. And for the last twenty-five years, I've been building companies from scratch, and I've been through the global financial crisis and COVID, but I have never experienced what we're experiencing right now. I've never seen more fear for the disruption that is coming. And my real bear case for AI is that every time you go on AI, your request is going off to a big computer in a Walmart-sized building somewhere, and those big ginormous computers, they last three to four years before they need to be replaced. And this year ahead, we're gonna spend six hundred and fifty billion, and that could cause a massive financial collapse. That's the thing that I'm worried most about. However, I've never seen more excitement for the opportunities that are in front of us.

So let's talk about in a world of AI, what are the skills that survive?

So I really believe that everyone should build a little bit of a personal brand. Not like to become an influencer, but position yourself with a group of people who know who you are and know what you do and could enroll you in their opportunity. Second one, if there's one skill set that everyone should be learning at the moment, it's how do entrepreneurs think, how do entrepreneurs behave, what are the skills that make an entrepreneur successful? And entrepreneurs just simply follow six steps, and we do it over and over and over again, and we'll go through the six steps.

So are there any particular opportunities that you think that anybody listening right now could pursue to make money?

So I think one of the best opportunities is-

That is such good advice that we don't hear enough. This is super interesting to me. My team give me this report to show me how many of you that watch this show subscribe. Sixty-nine percent of you that watch this show frequently haven't yet hit the subscribe button, and some of you have told us, according to this, that you are unsubscribed from the channel randomly. So favor to ask all of you, please could you check right now if you've hit the subscribe button, if you are a regular viewer of the show and you like what we do here. We're approaching quite a significant landmark on this show in terms of a subscriber number. So if there was one simple free thing that you could do to help us, my team, everyone here, to keep this show free, to keep it improving year over year and week over week, it is just to hit that subscribe button and to double-check if you've hit it. Only thing I'll ever ask of you. Do we have a deal? If you do it, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make sure every single week, every single month, we fight harder and harder and harder and harder to bring you the guests and conversations that you wanna hear. I've stayed true to that promise since the very beginning of The Diary of a CEO, and I will not let you down. Please help us. Really appreciate it. Let's get on with the show. [upbeat music] Daniel, I think we're living in the most interesting, opportunistic, terrifying time to be an entrepreneur, a professional, to really be anybody, because this is a moment of such fundamental change. And I really wanted to have this conversation with you today because I wanna understand how you're thinking about AI from an opportunity standpoint as an entrepreneur, but also just for everybody that's working in a normal job and who is at risk of having their, their career, their livelihood, their identity, their qualifications made redundant because there is now an alien amongst us that can do so much. So this conversation really is about giving people answers. It's about being honest with them about what's coming, and it's about preparing them, setting them up so that they have an advantage in the face of the future we face. So give me the thirty thousand feet view.