Working
I’m finally back in Industry after a multi year hiatus (but who’s counting)?
4 years 5 months and 3 days.
The industry has changed a lot. AI Now does all our work for us. Which is nice.
I called a friend after my first week was complete.
“Shayan are you excited for your first paycheque this Friday?”
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“Adelia… how did you know I was getting paid this Friday?”
‘Oh that’s just when I get paid. I think that’s normal.’
“Wait so do all the poor people get paid on the same day?”
‘Yeah I think so! All the plebians get paid on Friday.’
“Oh well. That’s crazy! But ya I guess I am excited. An honest days work. Then we all get paid in the bread line on Friday.”
‘But there’s no line. It goes straight to our bank accounts!’
“Very nice!”
Let me tell you that simple things like git rebase used to take a while. Go to stack overflow. Remember the commands. Now boom! Copy paste into claude, and realize you need to git rebase —continue. BOOM.
Man this type of job I could get used to.
Everybody’s afraid of AI.
I LOVE AI.
What just wake up and talk to a machine all day? And you get paid in the bread line every second friday with my fellow plebian-worker-labourer-class friends across the world?
NOT BAD.
Before I was spending credit card money. Pretending to be rich. Gallavanting across the globe. Eating Pad Thai here. Drinking in Singapore. And sleeping wherever I damn well pleased.
The flies were annoying though. But who cares man. Sometimes I’d be on a slope somewhere skiing. Sleeping on an Australian Friends floor.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
But I never thought the world would change this much when I opened my eyes.
And we were speaking to Machines… who did our work for us?
The future is here.
THe future is N0W.
And I plan on making the most of it….
We’re so long from that Vision I had in Times Square…
So far.
Yet it has arrived.
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Post Script.
I realized there’s no “Man”. We all work for somebody in a Death Loop.
The labourer works for the Foreman.
The Foreman works for the Manager.
The Manager works for the General Manager
The GM works for Head Office
Head Office works for the CEO.
The CEO might be the Founder but he works for the Investors.
The investors work for shareholders.
The shareholders work for their own investors and customers.
The Customers work for the Government.
And the Government works for the Corrupt Politicians.
And the Corrupt Politicians…. they work for the Army.
This keeps going… we all work for somebody.