What job? Building and nurturing adaptive or transferable skills is what one should focus on. And they should be picked according to the kid's affinities. I might suggest 'become an architect so that you could be good at business design, game design, or anything design'. But those are also specific enough so that one does not need to be an architect at all costs to be good at the rest. It's just the same mentality.

I am content with having studied psychology because at some point, I decided I could indeed choose whatever I wished to be dealing with. We're generally some pretty awesome machines for adaptation and finding ways to solve problems/ achieve goals. Unless we choose to be inhibited, instead, and play victims.

Or, should we try to predict the niche of the future that would bring the greatest success and joy? (Actually not the right strategy, if you ask me.)

How about Bounty Hunter?

Does anyone say 'I want my kid to become a politician'? Perhaps a lot of folks, but few would act on it.

A certain politician aorund here is famous for (a lot of things but also saying...)

'They say there are not enough jobs. Not true, we need a lot of shepherds, but no, they all want to be IT specialists...'

I'd say we don't have enough farmers, too.

I remember wanting to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle. And here I am, I have the opportunity to make pizzas until the end of times.