We're confident companies will still have human employees in twenty years – after all, no one's yet managed to invent a robot that can carry on a water-cooler conversation about The Good Wife – which means your job will be alive and well.

We do have a question for you, though: Why human resources? Did you not realize when you became an HR director that you and your minions are hated for your narrow-minded, obstructionist, power-hungry views on who should be hired and for what position?

Were you unaware that you would have to deal with some truly whackadoo employee and employer behavior? The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission received more than 7,000 reports of workplace sexual harassment in 2013, and the state of Texas alone was the source of more than 9,000 reports of workplace discrimination. In other words, there's a lot that goes down in the workplace and, as the head of HR, you're right in the thick of the madness.

Let's not even get into those folks you let go who turn around and come back to work with a firearm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that there were nearly 15,000 workplace homicide victims between 1992 and 2012.

So, yeah, your job will be around in two decades...but do you really want to have to deal with all the crazy?

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