20-Year Prospect
The sun, it burns us. Good thing, too, because parboiled human flesh is one of the things that's going to keep you employed.
See, too much exposure to ultraviolet light – be it of the sun or the tanning bed variety – can cause a type of skin cancer known as a melanoma. In 2011, more than seventy thousand Americans discovered they had a melanoma or two or twelve, and more than twelve thousand Americans died of this disease.
While twelve thousand dead bodies may not sound like very many, especially compared with the annual death rate for, say, breast cancer, the problem with melanoma is that it's the only one of the seven common cancers in the United States with an increasing incidence rate. Why? Because the ozone layer is disappearing, and people are too boneheaded to wear sunscreen.
Morons aren't the only source of your job security, however – Botox-loving narcissists depend on you, too. The wrinkle-removing business in the United States is booming, having grown from a $90 million-a-year gig in 1997 to a $1.8 billion business in 2012.
Why anyone would want to inject botulinum toxin into their foreheads is beyond us, but, hey, so long as folks have frown lines and crow's feet, you'll have a job.