The map of work
Every profession placed by how hard it is to enter and how well it resists automation. Bubble size is pay. Click any one to open it.
Top-right is the rare corner: hard to enter, hard to automate.
By field
Medicine & Life
Work that keeps bodies and minds alive — the longest training and the oldest oaths.
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🏛️Law & Public Service
The professions a society builds to govern, judge and protect itself.
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⚙️Engineering & Technology
Building the machines and systems the modern world runs on.
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🔬Science & Research
Jobs whose product is knowledge nobody had yesterday.
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🎨Arts & Creation
Making the things people choose to look at, read, hear and live inside.
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⚒️Craft & Trade
Trades where the hand still decides the outcome.
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Across every profession
Jobs AI cannot take
All sixty professions ranked by how much of the work resists automation — and the reasoning behind each score.
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The history of work
Every profession on this site, placed on one timeline from the first named architect to the newest job on earth.
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What to study for which job
University majors mapped to the professions they actually lead into, ranked by how many doors each one opens.
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What every profession pays
The sixty jobs ranked by peak earnings, with the figure each one reaches at the top of its ladder.
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Trades that vanished
The jobs that automation, regulation and fashion erased — and which surviving profession absorbed them.
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Compare professions
Put up to six jobs side by side on pay, entry barrier, autonomy, demand, impact and resistance to AI.
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🩺 Medicine & Life
Surgeon
The physician who operates to cure, from Sushruta's ancient rhinoplasty to today's robotic operating rooms, still alone with the decision at the table.
AI-resistant 92 🩺Physician
Diagnoses illness and manages health for years afterward through examination and evidence, not a single operation — medicine's generalist and long-term guide.
AI-resistant 67 🐾Veterinarian
Treats patients from goldfish to horses that cannot describe a symptom, and carries the legal power to end their suffering by euthanasia.
AI-resistant 78 🧠Psychiatrist
Diagnoses and treats mental illness through medication and therapy, one of medicine's only specialties with legal authority to detain a patient in crisis.
AI-resistant 73🏛️ Law & Public Service
Lawyer
Advises clients, drafts the documents that bind them, and argues their case when it reaches court — carrying personal legal liability if the advice is wrong.
AI-resistant 58 🕊️Diplomat
From ancient royal envoys and Venice's resident ambassadors to the Congress of Vienna and the UN, still negotiating peace one careful sentence at a time.
AI-resistant 78 🚓Police Officer
The sworn officer who patrols, investigates and keeps the peace, from Vidocq's undercover detectives and Peel's 1829 constables to today's contested public trust.
AI-resistant 66 📋Civil Servant
Government's permanent, exam-selected staff who administer law and deliver public services — the machinery that keeps running as elected officials come and go.
AI-resistant 42⚙️ Engineering & Technology
Software Engineer
Writes, tests and maintains the code that runs modern life — and is one of the first professions watching AI automate its own daily work.
AI-resistant 35 🤖AI Researcher
Designs and tests the algorithms behind machine intelligence, in a field now racing to automate a growing share of its own research process.
AI-resistant 50 🛰️Aerospace Engineer
Designs, analyzes and certifies the aircraft, rockets and spacecraft that leave the ground, working to safety margins that leave no room for guessing.
AI-resistant 74 🔌Semiconductor Engineer
Designs and fabricates the transistors inside every computer, phone and weapon, using machines precise enough that only a few factories on Earth can run them.
AI-resistant 60