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So you work in one of these fields, right? Hydroponics, homebuilding, theatre construction, pothole repair?
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I currently work as a software engineer, but I've worked in the past in restaurants (dishwasher/prep cook), doordashing, as a musician, as moving help. If AI automates software I'll just do something else.

Spoken like a 2007 bond trader

All of those are basically low wage garbage jobs. We have little to no respect for them as a society, too, to add insult to injury.

If it were up to me, I'd be flipping burgers right now. But I literally can't do that, it doesn't pay enough for that to be a job I can take. Id have to, like, find roommates.


Good luck with physical labor when you reach your 50s.

Fair point



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