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For my graphs, I chose the first two and the fourth one (Those being % of 2007 job employment today, domestic migration rates to different cities, and net job growth respectively). The main thing that I'm seeing from all of the graphs is that the distressed Americana is really getting left behind in everything. Employment is low, people are moving out of them to find work in bigger cities, and jobs are also leaving them as well. This shows us that jobs are moving out of smaller towns for the most part, and are becoming more concentrated in major cities. I think that as work dries up in the rural parts of America, and as populations in these rural pockets age, many smaller communities will become abandoned simply because there isn't any work in them. However, I think farming communities may do well for themselves due in part because of automation. Farms will be able to run with less people due to automation, and older people will be able to work on them due to being able to use machines.
As for the fields of work that I am interested in, I don't think automation will affect any of them greatly. Psychology and linguistics are both fields that would be hard to implement automation in. I suppose with linguistics there is translation software, but currently translation software isn't amazing. Psychology, much like other medical jobs, is something I don't think will ever get replaced with automation. Technology will totally get added to make a doctors work easier, but I don't think it will be possible to remove humans from medical fields.

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