Become a Robot service engineer...oh wait that's what I already am! Sorted.
Edit: I am not an actual robot service engineer except in so far as all devs service automated systems.
Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
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Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#12Other than, attempt to retrain and look for another job? Without quite knowing the scope or seriousness of question, it's tricky. I'm in IT, started as a sysadmin in PeopleSoft/ERP world, currently a hands-on team-lead. A lot of stuff we do can, should, and will be automated. Which will remove my hands-on portion and reduce my team-lead portion. I've been lucky/careful to retrain both up (relative direction) and late…
> attempt to retrain and look for another job?
The question is whether there will be a Big Rip type of event, where jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain.
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#14Become a Robot service engineer...oh wait that's what I already am! Sorted. Edit: I am not an actual robot service engineer except in so far as all devs service automated systems.
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#15Other than, attempt to retrain and look for another job? Without quite knowing the scope or seriousness of question, it's tricky. I'm in IT, started as a sysadmin in PeopleSoft/ERP world, currently a hands-on team-lead. A lot of stuff we do can, should, and will be automated. Which will remove my hands-on portion and reduce my team-lead portion. I've been lucky/careful to retrain both up (relative direction) and late…
> attempt to retrain and look for another job? The question is whether there will be a Big Rip type of event, where jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain.
In that case it is pointless to speculate, a future like that will be so unlike our present that speculation is roughly where science fiction is.
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#16I'm legitimately scared by this question. What bot knows how to take a design and implement it in software?
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#17Change my business cards to say "artisanal codesmith" and go looking for employers who value the wabi-sabi of code with genuine organic bugs. [edit - spelling, or were they genuine organic errors?]
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> attempt to retrain and look for another job? The question is whether there will be a Big Rip type of event, where jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain.
In that case it is pointless to speculate, a future like that will be so unlike our present that speculation is roughly where science fiction is.
Not really, this is the position middle america finds itself in. Different population groups retrain at different speeds.
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#19I become a carpenter, probably living in a van down by the river.
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#20They already did. I started wrestling, maybe I'll be good enough to teach it one day. That's my plan A. :(