Thank you! That's an interesting perspective, because even though most of my interests are theoretical and intellectual, I've been planning to get involved in more practical and hands-on activities lately. I'll definitely consider that.

But if the point of doing that is just to make sure that your job isn't taken over by robots, wouldn't it be better to go with something even more robot-proof such as, say, teaching, therapy, politics or medicine, because they involve human interaction and that would be the last thing to be automated. What do you think?

There was a study by Oxford a few years back on which jobs are the most likely to be taken over, and it had similar conclusions, though I read it a while ago so I don't remember the exact details. You might be interested in checking it out: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/future-of-employment.pdf