9 Days From Being Jobless
Same skills, same person — but no title, no company. The only question anyone knows how to ask is what do you do.
There's a question that I'm going to have to find answers to, and that question is: what do you do?
As soon as I realise that I'm no longer associated with a company, a business, a job description, or a title, the only other path that society is conditioned to ask is: how do you survive? How do you make money? What product or service are you going to sell? I feel like that's a symptom of a problem and I don't really know the answer. It's an answer that I'm trying to seek out in the weeks and months to come.
But the question is very relevant because it's not just relevant to me. Whilst I made the decision myself to become jobless, I don't think many people in society will be given this choice because we can all see where things are headed.
The cost to live, just to survive, is continually going up. Businesses are cutting costs as a result. AI technology is coming in as a solution to minimise the cost of productivity so that it goes to zero — and human labour is one of the most costly things out there.
All of this leads to one direction really at the moment, and it's the reality we have to accept.
So whilst you still may not be impacted, I feel like it's a matter of when, not a matter of if. And if there's a non-zero percent chance of this either happening to yourself or someone else around you, it might be a question worth mentally preparing for now.
And the question is: what do you do?