10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)

4. Soldier

This might be a little pessimistic, but we doubt war's going to go away any time soon. Unless we somehow end up in a Star Trek-esque utopia, free of conflict or ego or greed, human beings are gonna keep finding reasons to fight. And by fight, we mean conscript young people into fighting. And by fighting, we mean being mowed down by mortars and tanks and land mines. Being a soldier nowadays isn't any kind of cake walk, but you can bet your sweet behind that it's not going to get any better. Sure, the equipment used in warfare will keep improving, but then so will the weapons used, in order to combat the better defences. And that's assuming wars will be fought in the future between the same sorts of enemies we have now. Which they won't. They'll be fought against ALIENS. And that will make things tricky. Either way, a lot of people are going to die. Either it'll be an Edge Of Tomorrow scenario where we just manage to scrape by thanks to some wibbly-wobbly timey wimey stuff (and those sweet robotic exo-suits), or else the governments of the world will simply recruit enough naïve cannon fodder to throw at our extraterrestrial enemies to subdue them. You know, like Starship Troopers, a film which is satirical and ultra-cynical but isn't without its grains of truth about the current state of warfare. It's just that, in the future, said warfare will see people getting disembowelled by giant bugs, rather than machine gun fire. Oh and if you can get forced into appearing in a reality show you just know they'll bring back the draft as soon as the first UFO announces it does not come in peace.