The good news is that workers in the leisure and hospitality industry will probably always have a job. But the glory days are in the rearview mirror for others, and one day, they might just ride off into the sunset entirely.
* Motor vehicle parts manufacturing. This industry is expected to contract more than 3 percent each year in the U.S.
* Coal mining. The solar and wind energy sectors both employ far more workers than coal mining, which employs fewer people in total than many individual large companies and is expected to continue shrinking around 2 percent each year.
Indonesia, India, and parts of Africa may still open new mines into the 2030s.
In the U.S., don't count coal out yet. Coal is considered a bridge energy for power-hungry data centers. At least three major power companies have stalled plans to retire coal plants to power AI initiatives.
* Tobacco manufacturing. Unless the Surgeon General changes their mind someday, Americans aren't likely to pick up smoking en masse again, which is why the tobacco industry's annual output is expected to shrink by more than 10 percent (with thousands of anticipated jobs eliminated) by 2034.
* Magnetic manufacturing and optical media. The cassette tape and CD/DVD industry still exists, but things are looking grim. The already-miniscule industry is shrinking nearly 2 percent each year.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics