As someone without friends, I hear a lot of "if you want friends, get a job."
Plot twist: I actually do have a job, many of them don't.
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As someone without friends, I hear a lot of "if you want friends, get a job."
Plot twist: I actually do have a job, many of them don't.
I think there are a lot of fields people are being encouraged to ignore because "it's totally going to be made obsolete by AI any day now". I'm sure some of them ultimately will be, but we still have people doing financial services despite so much of the calculations being handled entirely by software under the hood.
The people pushing this AI revolution concept are those who stand to make money off it, and those who can use it as an excuse for layoffs to save money in the short term before they jump to another company and avoid the consequences.
I remember 14 years ago in high school I was kicking around the idea of becoming a court reporter (type out everything said in court) , but was told "nooo look at Siri, that'll totally replace all that soon!"
No, no it's not. We don't want things like that making choices like that.
Also was told "C and C++ is too old, learn something newer"
People get too excited about new tech, not thinking about why the old tech stands the test of time.
Go to trade school.