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Optometry (OD)
🇨🇦 Canada · Medicine & healthWatch closelyAmong the safest 40% of 239 majors
Major Countdown
6 yrs 11 mo
14days 01:32:08:484
until AI starts cutting hiring for this major’s grads
Oct 2, 2033 · 2542 days left
Likely range 2 yrs 11 mo – 12 yrs 11 mo
Based on professional degree graduates
Class of 2030: 3 yrs 3 mo left after you graduate
Automated refraction, remote exams and AI retinal reading let chains run several stores on one optometrist, so chain hiring shrinks first in the early 2030s. Provincial registration, prescription sign-off and eye-disease care hold on, and tiny cohorts soften the blow.
The countdown is the time left until AI is expected to start cutting hiring for this major’s grads. It doesn’t mean the major will disappear or that everyone will lose their job.
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AI vs Humans: whose side are you on?
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Where graduates go
2030Career paths · time left at graduation in 2030
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