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cableshaft commented on Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career? · Posted by u/7402
If/when we get to the point where my job is automated out of existence, then so will a large enough categories of jobs that there's going to have to be some sort of universal basic income system in place, so hopefully I'll just be on that and work on one of my creative passions, like writing or music or board game design/development, and supplement that with what I've managed to sock away so far.
I could see myself doing teaching also. Or just become a barista or cook, but I'm not sure I can handle standing for that long at a time anymore, the front of one of my thighs starts tingling and bothering me (when walking it doesn't really have a problem, it's mainly when I stand mostly in place, like when I'm cooking).
I wouldn't mind doing some sort of research but I've don't have any experience with that, outside of research projects in college a couple of decades ago.
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I currently pretty much only use A.I. when I get stuck (or sometimes if I want some help writing the scaffolding for unit tests). If I'm not stuck then I don't use it. There may come a day when I don't think it'll be worth the time to code myself when I'm not stuck, but that day is not today.
But then again I may be considered old, too (I'm in my 40s).
I don't think it's a great idea to become too reliant on it, just like it's not a great idea to only know how to copy+paste code from Stack Overflow. If you use it too much the coding muscle gets weak and you will become less able to identify when something is done incorrectly or in a less than ideal way because of this corner case or business requirement.
cableshaft commented on Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates theregister.com/2025/05/2... · Posted by u/rntn
what does "resistance" look like?
RTO mandates have been just that, mandates
RTO or you will be terminated with cause
pretty simple really, not sure what there is to "resist"
most CEOs talking through this have said quite clearly that they don't care about case studies (Jaime Dimon was quoted as saying "I don't give a fuck what your studies say"), evidence-based arguments etc...so not sure why people are studying WFH vs RTO
you have to decide if you hate RTO enough to try and find a new job
You can still not comply and see if they end up terminating you. If they value you as an employee enough they may begrudgingly be willing to look the other way.
I've had companies try several times to bring people back to the office, just to have most people not show up anyway (or show up only every once in a while), and so far I haven't seen terminations enforced. That may eventually change, but at least so far I haven't seen that happen. YMMV though.
You can always work on video games on the side. I used to be in the video game industry, but I'm not anymore. That's what I do now.
Even before I got into the industry I was making video games on the side. The only time I wasn't making games on the side was when I was in the industry itself, as it seemed like a conflict of interest (and the contracts I signed reinforced that).
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The city itself seems like a relatively quiet city. There's some parts of town that seem kind of run down but not too bad, and the downtown area (where FLUID is) is nicer.
We went to their outlet mall once (which is all I knew about the place ahead of time, people would say how it's a great place to shop) and while there's a decent number of stores there, the courtyard was surprisingly bland and undecorated at the time, like it was never finished. We haven't had the urge to go back since. I've been more impressed with shopping centers in the Chicago suburbs (where I'm from), like the Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, or the Chicago Premium Outlets in Aurora.
Also stopped by their beach once, and it's fine, but I think other beaches not too much further away in SW Michigan or the Indiana Dunes are nicer (especially the Dunes).