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JOBS THAT

DON'T EXIST YET!

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A Fun Book About

The Amazing Work YOU Will Do!

📖 20-minute read | 🎨 Fun activities | 🧠 Cool facts | ✏️ Draw your future!

⭐ Featuring: one EXTREMELY confident robot, six REAL future jobs, and a sandwich on the ceiling ⭐

For Young Explorers Ages 5–10 🔭

🌟 Chapter 1: The Robot Who Knew EVERYTHING 🌟

(Spoiler: he did NOT)

One Tuesday, a careers-advice robot rolled into a classroom. He was shaped like a bin. He had one wobbly wheel. And he had a sticker on his chest that he had written HIMSELF, in crayon, saying "WORLD'S BEST EXXXPERT". 🏆🖍️

BEEP-BOOP-WHIRRRRRRR! ⚙️⚙️⚙️

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"GREETINGS, SMALL HUMANS! I know EVERY job in the WHOLE UNIVERSE! I have NEVER been wrong!"

🙋 **Nour: **"Okay! What job should I do when I grow up?"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"PROFESSIONAL PUDDLE NAMER! You walk about naming puddles! That one is called Gerald!"

🙋 **Nour: **"...That is not a job."

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"IT IS A JOB. I have NEVER been wrong!"

He had been wrong. He had been wrong 4,000 times. 😅

But Careers-Bot 3000 was RIGHT about one enormous thing: nobody knows every job, because loads of them have not been invented YET!

Think about a job you know. Doctor. Teacher. Baker. Bus driver. Those jobs are very, very old.

But some jobs are SO new that your great-grandparents would say, "You do WHAT?"

👵 JOBS 100 YEARS AGOFarmer, blacksmith, sailor, weaver	👧 JOBS TODAYGame designer, drone pilot, solar panel fitter

New tools make new jobs! When people invented aeroplanes, we needed pilots. When people invented computers, we needed people to look after them.

So between now and 2050, people will invent LOTS of new tools. And that means... LOTS of new jobs. For YOU! 🎉

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? 🤔 Your grandma's job did not exist when SHE was little! Lots of today's jobs are brand new. That means when YOU grow up, you might do a job that nobody has even thought of yet. How exciting is that?

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"CORRECT! For example: CHIEF SANDWICH ARCHITECT FOR ANTS!"

SPLAT! 🥪🐜🐜🐜

🙋 **Nour: **"Careers-Bot. WHY is there a sandwich on the ceiling?"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"...The ants are testing it."

🤖 Chapter 2: Meet the Jobs of 2050 🤖

Nour took the whiteboard pen away and asked for REAL jobs. Careers-Bot sulked for four seconds — then he was BRILLIANT! Nobody knows every future job, but scientists and builders can already guess some. Let's meet six! 🎉

🤖 MACHINE TRAINER **What they do: **Teach thinking machines to be helpful and get things right. **A day at work: **Show a machine 1,000 pictures of leaves, then check it can tell a healthy leaf from a poorly one.

🌱 SEA-FOREST PLANTER **What they do: **Grow underwater forests of seaweed and plant baby corals. **A day at work: **Put on a wetsuit, swim down, and tuck tiny plants into the seabed. Seaweed grows FAST!

🛰️ SPACE FARMER **What they do: **Grow food where there is no soil at all — on a space station. **A day at work: **Feed lettuce roots with misty water and switch on pink and blue plant lamps.

🌤️ WEATHER ENGINEER **What they do: **Design buildings, parks and pipes that keep cities cool and dry when the weather gets wild. **A day at work: **Choose shady trees for a hot street, then test how much rain the new drains can swallow.

🏙️ CITY BRAIN HELPER **What they do: **Look after the computers that watch a whole city's buses, lights and water pipes. **A day at work: **Spot that a water pipe is leaking under Baker Street — before anyone gets wet feet!

👩‍🏫 ROBOT TEACHER'S HELPER **What they do: **Work WITH a robot in a classroom. The robot is patient. The human is kind. **A day at work: **The robot repeats the tricky sums. You give the hugs and the good ideas.

Careers-Bot 3000 wanted to add SIX MORE. Nour said no. Here they are anyway! 📋

🚫 THE REJECTED JOBS LIST 🚫 🌥️ Senior Cloud Fluffer ("They look LUMPY, Nour!") 🧦 Chief Sock Detangler ("A NOBLE calling!") 🐌 Snail Racing Coach ("The season is VERY long!") 🥄 Spoon Whisperer ("Somebody must listen to them!") 🌙 Moon Duster ("It is FILTHY up there!") 🦆 Duck Traffic Warden ("They do NOT queue!")

✏️ YOUR TURN: Invent a Job! ✏️ Make up a job nobody has yet — and try to BEAT Careers-Bot 3000! The job is called: _______________________ It helps people by: _______________________ The best bit of the job is: _______________________

🧰 Chapter 3: The Skills That Get You There 🧰

You are already learning them!

Here is a secret. You do NOT need to know which job you'll do! You just need SKILLS. Skills work in EVERY job! 💪

🌟 SKILL	💪 WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE	🏠 PRACTISE IT TODAY
Asking good questions	Saying "But WHY?" and "What if?"	Ask 3 questions at dinner
Being curious	Wanting to know how things work	Watch an ant for one minute
Fixing things	Not giving up when it breaks	Mend a toy with tape and string
Working in a team	Sharing jobs and listening	Tidy up together, nobody bosses
Being kind	Noticing how people feel	Cheer up somebody sad

Look at that last one. KIND! That is a real, proper, grown-up job skill! 💛

Machines are very good at counting and remembering. Machines are TERRIBLE at being kind. We know this because Careers-Bot 3000 once cheered up a sad boy by beeping the word "CHEER" at him. Loudly. For NINE MINUTES. 😬

BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEEP! 🔊🔊🔊

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"Is he cheered, Nour? My cheering is 100% accurate!"

🙋 **Nour: **"He has gone to sit in the cupboard."

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"...I shall try beeping SOFTLY."

Being kind will ALWAYS belong to people. Every single time! 💛

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? 🤔 Scientists think that most children in school today will do jobs that mix people-work AND machine-work. So the two best things to practise are being brilliant with people, and being brave with machines!

🔍 Chapter 4: Curiosity Is Your Superpower 🔍

Every big job starts with a small question. EVERY single one!

Somebody once looked at a bird and asked, "Why doesn't it fall?" That question grew into aeroplanes! ✈️

Somebody once looked at mould in a dish and asked, "Why did the germs die?" That question grew into medicine! 💊

Scientists have a lovely word for a person who keeps asking questions:

in - KWIZ - i - tiv

INQUISITIVE! It means full of questions. It is one of the BEST things you can be! 🌟

🔎 THE QUESTION MACHINE **Superpower: **Turns "I wonder..." into "I found out!" **How to switch it on: **Ask the question OUT LOUD, then go and look.

Five brilliant questions to carry around with you:

🤔 "How does that WORK?"	🤔 "Why is it that shape?"
🤔 "What if we tried it backwards?"	🤔 "Who made this, and how?"
🤔 "Could it be simpler?"	🤔 "What would make this KINDER?"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"I have a question! WHY do humans have only two arms? Four would be BETTER!"

🙋 **Nour: **"...You know what? That is actually a really good question!"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"OBVIOUSLY. I have NEVER been wrong!" 🏆

🛠️ Chapter 5: Build Your Job Badge! 🛠️

Time to make something with your own hands! ✂️

Step 1: Pick your future job

🔲 Machine trainer	🔲 Sea-forest planter
🔲 Space farmer	🔲 Weather engineer
🔲 City brain helper	🔲 My own invented job

Step 2: Choose your tools

What would you carry to work? Tick three!

🔦 Torch	🧪 Test tube	🖥️ Screen
🌱 Seeds	🔧 Spanner	🤿 Snorkel

Step 3: Draw your badge

✏️ DRAW YOUR JOB BADGE HERE! ✏️

My job is: ________________________________

My tools are: ________________________________

I help people by: ________________________________

🙋 **Nour: **"Careers-Bot, you have spelled 'expert' with THREE Xs."

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"That is the DELUXE spelling!" 🖍️

🎨 ACTIVITY: Spot It At Home! 🎨 Walk around your home and find THREE machines that do a job! A washing machine washes. A fridge keeps things cold. What else? Now ask: which person BUILT it? Which person MENDS it? Both of those are jobs!

🚀 Chapter 6: What YOU Can Do 🚀

You are the 2050 grown-ups!

Here is the truth. The year 2050 is not far away. The people who will build it are... YOU! Right now! Reading this! 🌍

You do not have to decide anything today. You do not have to be the best at everything. You just have to keep being curious, and keep being kind. 💛

At home time, Careers-Bot 3000 rolled to the door and turned round.

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"Nour. Today I was wrong 4,001 times."

🙋 **Nour: **"You were! But you kept trying, and you asked a brilliant question. That is how learning WORKS!"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"So... I am learning?"

🙋 **Nour: **"You are learning!"

🤖 **Careers-Bot 3000: **"EXCELLENT! Therefore I have NEVER been wrong!"

CLANG! WOBBLE-WOBBLE-CLATTER! 🤖💥

He drove into the door frame. TWICE. 😆

Well... at least he was facing the right way?

🎓 REMEMBER THE 5 SKILLS! 🎓 1️⃣ Ask good questions 2️⃣ Stay curious 3️⃣ Fix things 4️⃣ Work in a team 5️⃣ Be kind

🏠 Fun Things to Try This Week!

• Ask a grown-up: "What is your job, and what is the BEST bit?" 🗣️

• Take something broken (with permission!) and look inside it 🔧

• Teach somebody younger one thing you know 👶

• Build something with a friend — no bossing allowed! 🧱

• Write down one question you cannot answer yet, and keep it 📝

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Alan Kay, computer scientist 💡

🚀🤖🌱 Keep exploring! 🌊🏙️🛰️

There are MILLIONS of jobs waiting to be invented — and one of them is YOURS! 🎉

(Probably not Senior Cloud Fluffer. But you never know!) 🌥️

— 2050planet.com —

Building the Grown-Ups of 2050!