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What if your next job doesn't have a name yet?
In China, an official list just got longer.
Now including robot trainers, sustainability planners and even incense making artisans.
Work you might not have known existed
is suddenly being recognized as the real deal,
but who gets to decide when a hobby becomes a career?
Well, the answer might tell us more about the future
than any headline could.
First up.
What do a robot trainer, a sustainability planner
and an incense making artisan have in common?
Well, they could all be part of China's workforce of the future.
Very recently on September 9th,
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released a new list
recognizing 11 new occupations and 23 new occupational specialties,
giving official recognition to kinds of work
that are emerging as the economy changes.
So, when does a new kind of work become an actual occupation,