What do you think you, your children or perhaps your grandchildren will be doing in 20 years time? If you are worried you (or they) may be stuck in a dead end office job with few prospects and little excitement, think again.

Fast Future, which makes a living from predicting what might be about to happen, has come up with 20 new careers that it expects to emerge over the next two decades. My personal favourites are:-

Body Part Maker - Advances in science will make it possible to create living body parts, so we could need living body part makers, body part stores and body part repair shops. Footballers and other sports stars will probably find this particularly useful given their propensity of injury!

Memory Augmentation Surgeon - Surgeons could add extra memory to people who want to increase their memory and to help those who have been over-exposed to information and need more memory to store it.

Fans of Star Trek may be interested in a career as a space pilot or tour guide whilst the police force might include weather modification police, a special branch set up to control and monitor who is allowed to shoot rockets containing silver iodine into the air - a way to provoke rainfall from passing clouds.

Of course a lot of these ideas are merely pie in the sky at the moment but they do conjure up some interesting images. With scientific and technological advancements being made at such speed, who knows what the future has in store? One thing’s for certain, it’s bound to be an interesting couple of decades.

We’d love to hear your views on new careers. What new careers do you think will emerge over the next 20 years?