Slowly realising my father was right and should work for our family business (construction).
I wouldn't be surprised to see some old ideas come back to life like encapsulation concepts from enterprise software development. But this time we let LLMs deal with the boilerplate code needed to use and connect them.
You can also master a trade and become a knowledge worker. Here in Denmark it's possible to mix pre-university/gymnasium (equivalent to year 10-12 in the US) with a trade. Combined it takes 4.5-5 years.