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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📚Education & Humanities
Carrying knowledge across generations and languages.
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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
外科医生
以手术治愈疾病的医生——从苏什鲁塔古代的鼻重建术到今日的机器人手术室，手术台上的关键决定仍须独自承担。
AI-resistant 92 🩺内科医生
通过问诊与证据诊断疾病并长期管理健康，而非一次手术——医学的通科与长期向导。
AI-resistant 67 💉护士
医疗体系中规模最大的职业：从斯库台里的灯到重症监护室的监护仪，当其他人回家之后，仍守在床边的那个人。
AI-resistant 91 💊药剂师
每张处方背后的药物专家——从巴格达最早的药铺与药剂师的研钵，到吗啡、青蒿素与现代药房。
AI-resistant 58 🐾兽医
为从金鱼到马匹的患者治病，它们无法描述自己的症状，而兽医还拥有以安乐死终结其痛苦的合法权力。
AI-resistant 78 🧠精神科医生
通过药物与心理治疗诊断和治疗精神疾病，是少数拥有法定权力在患者危机时将其强制留院的医学专科之一。
AI-resistant 73🏛️ Law & Public Service
律师
为客户提供法律意见，起草具有约束力的文件，并在案件进入法庭时为其辩护——若建议有误，还须承担个人法律责任。
AI-resistant 58 ⚖️法官
社会所信赖的裁决者：从汉谟拉比石碑到AI评分的保释听证，最棘手的争端至今仍要交由一位担责的人来了结。
AI-resistant 90 🕊️外交官
从古代的王室使节和威尼斯的常驻大使，到维也纳会议和联合国，至今仍在一字一句谨慎地谈判和平。
AI-resistant 78 🚓경찰관
순찰하고 수사하며 치안을 지키는 선서 경찰관 — 비독의 잠입 수사관과 필의 1829년 순경들로부터 대중의 신뢰가 흔들리는 오늘날까지 이어져 온 직업이다.
AI-resistant 66 🚒소방관
모두가 도망치는 곳으로 뛰어드는 직업 — 로마의 비길레스와 에도의 마토이 대원부터 오늘날의 산불 진화대와 24시간 근무 구조대까지.
AI-resistant 90 📋공무원
선출직 인사들이 오고 가는 동안에도 법을 집행하고 공공서비스를 전달하며 정부를 계속 돌아가게 하는, 시험으로 선발된 국가의 상근 인력.
AI-resistant 42⚙️ Engineering & Technology
🔬 Science & Research
化学家
亲手制造并测量物质本身的科学家——从塔普提在巴比伦蒸馏香水的年代到今天的机器人实验室，仍是那个判断谱图意味着什么的人。
AI-resistant 70 📊数据科学家
从数据中寻找规律、构建预测模型——一个2008年才出现的职位名称，建立在三个世纪计数、检验与可视化证据的传统之上。
AI-resistant 38 🔭天文学家
丈量宇宙的科学家，从巴比伦泥板到空间望远镜，始终要判断数据中的哪一次闪烁是一项发现。
AI-resistant 70 🧮数学家
从巴比伦文士到菲尔兹奖得主，再到AI辅助证明：这门职业把难题一个定理接一个定理地变成永恒的确定性。
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