New technologies are improving lives as well as creating new opportunities.

Here are some jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago

Drone Pilots/Operators: A Drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A drone operator is someone that controls and maneuvers a drone. You can start piloting a drone with little practice.

Mobile App Developer: Mobile app development is the act or process by which an application software is developed for mobile. Mobile app developers create apps for mobile phones. Mobile app development became mainstream when Apple launched iPhone in 2007 and Google launched Android in 2008.

Social Media Manager: The rise of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc created this job. A social media manager handles content creation and interaction with customers on companies’s social media accounts.

Uber Drivers: Uber is a peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, and transportation network company. Since launch of Uber in 2009, many people use the service across many countries. Uber has operations in over 633 cities worldwide.

Cloud computing specialist: A cloud computing specialist helps companies in managing their information and services in the cloud (virtual distributed hosting environment).

Youtube content creators: YouTube is biggest video-sharing website. With rise in popularity of Youtube, many companies and individuals now run media / online TV on top the platform. A Youtube Content Creator is responsible for initiating, creating, and producing optimized/creative videos on youtube channels.

Self-driving car engineer: Driverless cars are here with us. many companies like Google (Waymo), Tesla, Apple, Uber etc have been working on driverless cars for some years.

Big Data Analyst: Big data analysts helps in examining large and varied data sets (big data) to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful information that can help organizations make more-informed business decisions.

Culled from https://blog.ngcareers.com/6334/top-jobs-that-didnt-exist-10-years-ago/

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