Note: If You Don’t Like Your Job…

…then AI is going to take it

Erik Jespersen
2 min readFeb 23, 2024

Curiously, on the flip side: if you just love your job, you’ll have it for as long as it’s “career” evolution brings you fulfillment, at which point it will change to something else.

Ai-generated drawing of modern drudgery workplace on left, and ideating promise of the future of human “labor”
Ai-generated drawing of modern drudgery workplace on left, and ideating promise of the future of human “labor”

It turns out that the only work you ever did exceedingly well is work you wanted to do. I don’t exactly mean excelling, one can certainly do that while frothing with loth at the very idea of the environment and cause for which they excel. Exceedingly well, in the very limited sense of these paragraphs, requires that in addition to the employ of your talents and creativity there’s a resonant zeal of knowing that the pride you’re experiencing emanates from a genuine sense that what you’re “succeeding” at is the exactly the type of soulful gift you’d want to give Humanity, offered the perfect opportunity.

I don’t know which specific AI brands of tools will rise emergent to precisely fit that magnificent aim of yours, but I can absolutely guarantee that they will manifest.

So get thinking about how you want to change the world for the better today.

dear teenage boys. you believe changing the world means holding the human world hostage while pissing down their throat? oh, boy, teenage boy, how little you’ve changed. anyway, to answer your question, yes, if anyone consents to such a mechanic, you will be able to communicate your ideas with them, so that the two or ten of you can refine and articulate your ideas of world domination until you’ve crafted a manifesto that resonates afilliatively and consensually with the rest of us… long row to hoe, but thar’s how that would work in reality.

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Erik Jespersen
Erik Jespersen

Written by Erik Jespersen

MyLife Founder, humanist, futurist, posthumanist philosopher, software engineer, novelist, composer

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