Many workplace elites nowadays chose a certain direction early on due to luck or family environment, and then continuously accumulated advantages in their core areas. However, every major change in the productive forces and relations of production is an opportunity to reshuffle and re-enter the game.
Just like how we now find it incredible to see the job of typists that once existed, in the 1990s, typists were a high-paying profession that young women envied, recording important meetings and transcribing written texts were all respectable jobs. Later, this profession was quickly replaced by personal computers and image/speech recognition.
With the advent of generative AI, many respectable and high-paying professions around us will be considered "unbelievable" 30 years later. In North America, most "elite" business students are still flocking to consulting and investment banking. I even have friends from a Canadian business school who work at top investment banks and can complete a complex and visually appealing analysis report without using a mouse, just by memorizing all the Excel shortcuts. However, all of this can now be easily automated through built-in AI, and even a report or a PowerPoint presentation can be completed with just voice commands.