What to study
in the age of AI
A practical guide for parents
Nobody can tell your child which career is safe. This series does something more useful — it gives you a way to think about the decision that still works when the answers keep changing.
- Modules
- Five
- Worksheet
- Included
- Cost
- Free
- Sign-up
- None
Watch in any order, on any device — nothing to create, nothing to log into.
Video 1 is being made
The series is being recorded now. The worksheet below is ready today, and works on its own.
Video 1 of 5 · planned
Is AI about to make your child's degree worthless?
Not worthless, but not untouched. AI changes the work inside a career one task at a time, not whole careers at once — and one question tells you which way it cuts: does AI here raise the expert, or remove them?
The series
Coming soonThree courses, four questions.
Write in the three courses your child is already talking about — the ones that come up at the dinner table — and take each one down the four questions. One evening, at the kitchen table.
You are not trying to pick a winner. You are trying to see what you are actually choosing between.
What this is
- —A way of reading any course or career that still works when the answers keep moving.
- —Built on published task-level research, with every figure sourced and dated.
- —Written for South African parents, about South African options.
What it isn't
- —A coding course, or AI training for your child.
- —A list of "AI-proof careers". There isn’t one, and video 1 explains why.
- —A machine that picks a career for your child.
A better list to run it on
The worksheet works on the courses your child has already mentioned. Most of those arrived by accident — something they're good at, something a relative does, a talk at school.
The Prime Career assessment combines a personality questionnaire with the career-interest model career counsellors use worldwide. The report describes how your child is wired and which careers fit them — often ones neither of you had thought of — laid out across the four routes: university, TVET, learnership and entrepreneurship.
And because you have the method, you don't have to take the report's word for it. Put those careers through the same four questions, whenever you're ready.
Your child answers 93 short questions, which takes 15 to 20 minutes. R225, once. No subscription.
See what the report covers