<story><title>The 40M dollar job</title><url>https://idiallo.com/blog/the-40-million-dollar-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mswen</author><text>In a related note. I had a new client in fall of 2018. The purpose was to build a system that collected and tracked competitors prices across a portfolio of enterprise products. When we first started talking the Director of Operations indicated that they were looking at hiring an entry level pricing analyst who would track competitors prices and use that market information plus other internal information to set appropriate prices for their own company. This was across about 4000 model&amp;#x2F;part numbers.&lt;p&gt;About 40 to 50 hours into the project I have a show and tell demo on what I had developed so far. At the end of the meeting the Director of Operations leans back and says. 
&amp;quot;What I envisioned as the never ending, never caught up task of collecting and organizing competitive pricing is now going to be 1 or 2 hours a day for someone.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Developer me was proud to hear that. I heard&amp;#x2F;understood the real business requirements and developed a system that automates away 90% of the repetitive drudgery of the overall task leaving someone better able to spend time on edge cases and what is changing in the market.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I felt slightly guilty that maybe now someone who is already too busy will get this added to their plate because it is just an hour or two a day. And, that someone else who could really use an entry level analysis job, won&amp;#x27;t get one because I automated it away before they could even get started.&lt;p&gt;In the end developer me will keep building stuff like this because that is what is valued and helps pay my bills.</text></comment>
<story><title>The 40M dollar job</title><url>https://idiallo.com/blog/the-40-million-dollar-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barefoot</author><text>If the latest WEF report on employment is any indication (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.weforum.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.weforum.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf&lt;/a&gt;), a significant volume of workers are either already misemployed or are about to be misemployed.&lt;p&gt;I get a strong sense of this any time I get out of my office. I&amp;#x27;m sure part of it is because I don&amp;#x27;t prefer interacting with humans but - as the owner of a machine learning consulting company - I see few jobs that can&amp;#x27;t be automated today with current technology given enough time.&lt;p&gt;Most jobs are bullshit jobs. Employment today is increasingly a heavily biased and ethically corrupt way of implementing UBI.</text></comment>