What makes you think they're wrong? I could very much believe accountants & actuaries (computerizable to a large degree), ESL teacher similarly face pressure from rising foreign countries (I follow South Korea mostly, and over the last decade they've put substantial pressure on foreigners in favor of indigenous teachers); Australian backpackers don't seem like a job or industry, but to the extent it is, I understand food and other prices have been under pressure in Australia due to the major growth in mining distorting the economy (I forget what this economic effect is called - Dutch disease?). Oil riggers seem unlikely, but the materials I've read about working on rigs and drilling pads didn't sound like declinist so I wonder your basis for this. As for programming, I'm too close to the topic to judge.
It just seems like a large coincidence that I would pick the wrong thing to look at every time. Your justifications sound post-hoc and too specific. Either I'm systematically picking out overrated careers, or people are systematically pessimistic about their jobs. Now I might be inclined to believe the former if the objective sources agreed that these jobs were overrated. But the objective sources (official statistics, articles written by people who have done research) provide some reasons to be optimistic, such as:
Computerization of accounting an actuar
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of August 20th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
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