How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

Cover of Ellen Shell’s new book The Job. On the latest episode of Recode Decode , journalist and Boston University professor Ellen Shell joined Recode’s Kara Swisher in studio to talk about her latest book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change .

Shell explained why some of the conventional wisdom about the future of work is misguided and offered pragmatic advice for people entering an increasingly automated job market. She warned that the most at-risk jobs are “mid-skill” ones that are expensive for employers, which includes most software developers.

“It’s not necessarily the low-level routine […]

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