The Top 5 Unique Career Options in 2022!

Work from Home. Online Meetings. Digital Marketing. Online Shopping. All of these are things that we didn’t even imagine happening 15 years ago. The world has changed and so have careers.  

With this unreal progress that we’ve made in the past decade, the number of possible careers has increased at the speed of light. There are no limits to what an individual can do now and everyone can find something or the other for themselves. So let’s look at 5 such unique career options that have risen to the top of the ladder in no time.  

1. Game Development:  

The industry has given us groundbreaking games like FIFA, Assassin’s Creed, Fortnite, and even PUBG. With the endless growth of the gaming industry, game development looks like a safe and sound futuristic career choice for everyone ranging from a Software Engineers to an artist.  

1. Sports Analyst:  

Have you ever wondered how we get such accurate figures about every sportsman’s performance in every match? Or have you ever wondered how big football, cricket or basketball teams pick out youngsters that end up becoming the greatest sportsmen in history? 

Analytics. Sports Analysts have the duty of running stats and finding the smallest of needles in the biggest haystack of the world. Now it just isn’t scouts who help find teams gems that build teams.  

And this job role doesn’t just stop at teams. Sports Analysts help players increase their performance and find out areas that they can improve in, and at the end of the day, their analytics and data help players sign even bigger contracts to help boost their careers. 

3. Artificial Intelligence 

There’s no need to say anything about how promising the field of artificial intelligence is. So many fields like psychology, robotics, and machine learning are essential parts of this rising wave of AI, and students today can aspire to align their interests to various aspects of the field itself. 

4. Data Science and Analysis.  

Now, this is a field that has been around forever but it has started gaining the recognition it needs and deserves only recently. Why? Because in today’s world, data is everything.  

Law, finance, journalism, engineering, marketing, and almost every profession is dependent on data. Hence, there has been a sudden rise in the need for professionals who are skilled at analyzing and identifying patterns in this data to build new strategies.  

For example, Data Science has the potential to completely change how the law works as a whole. Hundreds and thousands of pages of data can be boiled down to a few pages. An individual with the right legal sense and enough understanding of data science can save hundreds of hours of grunt work with a few lines of code.  

5. Digital marketing 

Digital Marketing has become the most essential component of every business on the face of this earth. SEO, SEM graphic design, copywriting, content writing, social media strategy, and management. The list of career opportunities in this field is endless.  

Marketing has always been an important industry but the scale at which digital marketing is changing the dynamics of customer engagement, retention, and sales overall are unreal. This is why you might see a few universities trying to jump ahead of the curve and offering degrees in digital marketing as a new path for formal education.  

While the field might not seem challenging when you look at it from a third-person perspective, an individual needs to be mentally prepared and constantly innovate to survive in this industry.  

All of this just goes to show that there are no limits to anyone’s passion in 2022. There are more unique career options than we could possibly imagine and with the right research, guidance, and preparation, no one can stop you from living your dream.  

– Hrishikesh Vikhe