Jeff

@it_unprofession N

My 10-year-old nephew asked me today if robots are going to take everyone's jobs. I said probably not everyone's. Someone has to fix the robots. He said what if the robots fix themselves. That's when I realized I was having an existential crisis with a fourth grader. I've spent 15 years building a career in IT. Every few years the technology changes and I adapt. Servers to cloud. On-premise to SaaS. Manual to automated. But what happens when the automation automates itself? I'm not worried about next year or even five years from now. I'm worried about 15 years from now when my nephew is entering the workforce and half the jobs that exist today are just... gone. He asked what I would do if I wasn't working with computers. I genuinely don't know. This is all I've ever done. He said maybe I could be a teacher. Teach people about computers. I said maybe. But who needs teachers when AI can explain everything better than I can?He looked worried. I changed the subject. But the question is still sitting in my head. What do I actually do if this entire career path just evaporates?