Defeat The Robots! Pick Up A Hammer!
I was talking with one of my co-workers earlier about the future of the company we work for. The conversation led to technological progress an how some companies in the past will pull back on the size of their staff and hours that they’re needed. This is normal. As most businesses go, jobs performed by people are eventually automated. This brings me to the point of this entry…
For the reasons mentioned above, I like to emphasize to others that no matter what kind of job you have, try to learn as many extra skills as possible while you’re there. It’s only a matter of time before you’re replaced by a robot. If all you do is act like a cog and nothing more, then you’re only creating more trouble for yourself when you do get shit-canned. If you go back out into the world, employers are going to ask what you can do. And if all you have to offer is that you can be a cog, chances are that they’ll respond with, “Well, we have robots for that.”
Heh, that’s how the Robot Apocalypse will really go down…silently. They’ll take over from within and we’ll be the one’s that put them in power! Soon they’ll replace every job and we’ll all be dependent on them. The leaders will call it “progress”, but we won’t see the truth until it’s too late… We’ll become the slaves of the machines!
Seriously though, whether you plan on working your way up through your current company, branch off into your own, or find yourself looking through the classifieds, you’re going to get yourself skilled up. Maybe along with being a cog, you also have some computer skills that you can sharpen. Maybe you can learn how to fix robots! The point is that you always have to improve yourself throughout your entire life. If you do not master technology, then you will be ruled by it. There’s a reason why so many foreigners are flooding into the country and making a huge living as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, landscapers… It’s because most Americans are too dumb and lazy to take those roles.
It feels like most people want to build a career in retail. That’s retarded. Everyone thinks that if they wait things out and stick with the company, some day they’ll be sitting in an executive’s chair. Working some stress-filled job that pays shit so that one day you can be the Assistant Regional Manager by your late-40s? You can’t make a decent living on that! Retail is set up so that the people on top are putting every effort to keep everyone below them down so that there’s more for themselves. And everyone’s expendable. You spend most of your “career” running as fast as you can, just to stay where you are. Don’t fool yourself, unless you’re the kind of diabolical, cut-throat son of a bitch that doesn’t care who they fuck over to climb your way to the top.
