Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

What if you knew your career would be obsolete in 15 years? #ManufacturingCareers

Name: What if you knew your career would be obsolete in 15 years? #ManufacturingCareers
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T16:17:07+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: A short transcript excerpt of Tom Burton posing a question about the incentive for students to train for manufacturing/blue-collar roles given…

22 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of Tom Burton posing a question about the incentive for students to train for manufacturing/blue-collar roles given projections that robots may perform most such jobs within 10–15 years. The speaker frames the issue as a career-risk dilemma for those entering the workforce.

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So let me ask you a question on this or both of you. We have an article I think coming up, I don't know if it's in this section or whatever, is that there's talk in the next basically 15 years that robots will have the majority of these jobs. So what is the incentive if I'm coming out of college right now, to go get trained in a manufacturing role or some role that it's basically more of the blue collar role within an organization, knowing that there's a reasonable probability that I will not have a job in 10 or 15 years due to robotics completely that are there. So what is the incentive for me to do that, knowing that it could be short lived?