I’ve been feeling many of the same things. I’m still pretty young (24) and it’s cool to be a software engineer while I still can but I genuinely don’t see a real future for my career. At first I tried really hard to figure out what I could do in the face of what’s coming, I refused to accept that my 30s aren’t something I can plan for anymore. I kept circling back to a few AI related things I wanted to study before realizing whatever things I was planning for myself, I would be doing the same things were I not worried about what comes next and it all felt futile very quickly. I’ve resigned to just working on what interests me now even if it can be automated very soon at least I did something I enjoyed while I still could.
I’ve been feeling many of the same things. I’m still pretty young (24) and it’s cool to be a software engineer while I still can but I genuinely don’t see a real future for my career. At first I tried really hard to figure out what I could do in the face of what’s coming, I refused to accept that my 30s aren’t something I can plan for anymore. I kept circling back to a few AI related things I wanted to study before realizing whatever things I was planning for myself, I would be doing the same things were I not worried about what comes next and it all felt futile very quickly. I’ve resigned to just working on what interests me now even if it can be automated very soon at least I did something I enjoyed while I still could.