19 may 2025
Will Code for Food.
My self-preservation instincts are hitting. The clock is ticking down on my continued access to the $5k/mo drug that keeps me alive. Who knows when the medicare rugpull will happen? Nobody can say, but the way we're slowly boiling the frog I doubt anyone will even have energy left to object when my "groups" number is up.
I have my ethical objections to most tech jobs. Aside from when I worked at a university briefly, every job I've had the misery of being dependant on made world worse. I think most comfortable workers would recognize it too if they were numbed by their inflated salaries. So like everyone else ambling to their morning standup meetings over zoom, I'm once again willing to sell my soul to live another day. The threat of poverty debases us all. Maybe i'll be a little less socially insufferable when I'm gainfully employed (probably not, tbh).
Is it even possible anymore? Did AI eat all the programming and EE jobs while I was in my health black hole?