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As a teacher, I'm keenly aware of the fact that my future is not guaranteed at all. Particularly because I'm a language teacher, which is a field that, at least in my country, is mostly driven by marketing. I'm sure that someone will figure out a way to make an AI English tutor sound like a great, cost-effective idea, and then I'm screwed. I give it about four or five years.
I know that because I used to do plenty of side gigs as a translator as well, and these have simply dried up in the past year and a half or so. Like, literally zero jobs since the dawn of ChatGPT and the like.
I'm glad I used most of that side hustle money to buy myself a whole workshop's worth of woodworking tools, and my way out will be to make high-end furniture. I still need a couple years to really get good at it, but I reckon it'll be longer until an AI chatbot can run a piece of wood through a jointer.
Maybe failing to become a teacher was a good thing for me after all. At least I don't have to deal with the prospects of a disintegrating job market. Plus all the political hostility from the state.
I wonder when they'll penetrate food service jobs though?
I would have liked being a teacher or professor, as I understood the profession pre-cellphones, but CS had shinier career options, plus more introvert appeal, and almost every day since acquiring my degree, there is a new horror story about how bad teachers are treated, meanwhile, I've had weeks where 99% of my job was goofying off instead of doing real work and I still get a raise.
I guess I fell in with the wrong group of nerds, lol. I never did sort out my own issues with introversion (undiagnosed autism?), so in some ways I'm happy I didn't waste more time right away trying to learn to swim by being thrown in the deep end. Maybe some day I'll go back to school. There is a labor shortage in that area after all.