With unemployment anywhere from 30mil to 50+mil and only seems like white collar and some trades still have anyone working. I know 'just code' was a meme but I know a lot of coders who got whacked. Are trades good or are they over-loaded also?

What are you seeing out there for actual jobs in demand?

With all these cities being destroyed, any type of construction will be in incredibly high demand. Insurance companies as well.

technical field - not exclusive STEM though
something that requires judgement, creativity, estimation, wrangling messy processes - whatever
something software can't do effectively

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Ok like what?

I am in STEM and outside of very narrow things STEM is a total CHIT field to get into.

IT, Medical, Engineering should not be going scarce any time soon.

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I do IT for data systems specific to healthcare, and it's incredibly lucrative and in-demand. Lots of work at home opportunities and if you're at the top of the field you can pull in the mid-100s. This year I'll hit nearly 300K and I only work about 40hrs/wk all from home.

Network, security, and data systems know-how are all huge but also very volatile based on what I see. For every person I know who does well in these spaces, I know more who earn half as much (average, still not bad but not tops) IF they can even keep a job. The potential employee pool for "general" this-or-that is too large.

OTOH, healthcare is very solid and can make you a niche resource in no time once you apply your abilities to such an environment. Hospitals/healthcare companies will seek you out specifically because of it, and the prospect pool is much smaller than "just anybody" who went to school/classes to get the same degrees/certs everybody else did anyway.

All I can offer is, if you're technical, get your foot in the door at a hospital or place that controls hospital data. Changed my life and then some!

Why would construction be in demand if it was destroyed in the first place, dumbass.

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STEM is fine imo. If you're already in it, then stick with it. If you're deadset on trades, then since you have a stem background I'd go hit up local IBEW and at least get ranked.

For what it's worth, I've worked closely with resi construction for the last 8 months, and from the conversations I've had; construction, operators, and sparkies are still in demand. At least in Chicago.

Data analytic skills, programming, machine learning

I can speak for Civil Engineering pretty well. Extremely in demand, both design side and construction. It's one of the "low salary" Engineerings compared to chemical and electrical but our median pay is on par with mechanical. If you can handle the hours of construction, getting out of your bachelors and earning 65k+ isn't difficult. Courses are extremely design based and software and technical manuals play a huge part. We have significantly lower enrollment numbers compared to mechanical so competition is extremely small. Maybe 30-50 applicants max per job posting. A lot of jobs are even perpetually posted because there aren't just enough applicants, and these are new grad jobs! Master's degrees are optional but recommended in some disciplines. Firms exist anywhere you want to live, not just major cities.