With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?
I know AI as an honest utility is itself a lie to some extent, but this only aids my argument further. People’s career struggles are panning out to be valueless because of a nothing-fad that no one could have predicted.
‘Job security’ has been a myth for more than half a century. A career for mostnpeople is nothing more than a job that you’re enmeshed in, and can’t easily leave if you want to.
It is a myth period with exception of state employment and brief period in history in some developed countries after ww2
I think I’d disagree with this.
For a while, there was a sense among the robber baron class that loyalty to employees would pay off with loyalty returned. Consider industrialists building towns for their employees and families, complete with schools and arenas.
Regardless of how cynical the reasoning may have been, the result was a degree of mutual loyalty and job security.
I don’t agree. It takes effort and you will need to balance tradeoffs but employment for life with one employer is possible.