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What is your profession and is it transferrable to the future?

2247 sats \ 27 comments \ @TheFish 6 Feb bitcoin

With the great disruption of a Bitcoin standard looming on the not so distant horizon is your profession transferrable? And if so what is it?

My personal thoughts are that the majority of the financial sector will be vaporized, a large portion of the public sector will be cut over a longer period of time, and production sector will grow vastly. As well as the entrepreneurial sector growing.

What are your 2 sats?

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587 sats \ 5 replies \ @hodlpleb 6 Feb

As a developer / consultant, I think my job is more at risk from AI than from Bitcoin.

101 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 6 Feb

I often hear this concern from developers. If you are new to the field, maybe. But if you actually have to figure out things that haven't been figured out before. Bugs in software that do not have fixes on stackoverflow. If you have to read documentation, API docs, and figure out how to do something that no one has written a blog post... you will be fine. AI is not going to replace people that can listen to stakeholders that need a problem solved but can't express what they need and figure out how to accomplish it. AI is just a tool and it will make engineers more efficient which I believe will only lead to more development of tools. AI doesn't think. It can't feel either. If you can do both of those well, you'll be fine IMO.

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 6 Feb

I've been hearing that I'm going to be replaced for 15 years now. I'll be dead before it happens. If you focus on solving problems and communication your work will never be done.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Feb

You said this very well. I agree with you completely

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheFish OP 6 Feb

Absolutely, I think developers play the critical role in higher layer development of the Bitcoin standard

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK 6 Feb

I think AI is at risk from Bitcoin mining. The best and brightest are building efficient mining rigs to do the math and the AI people throw away staplers when they run out of staples.

Bitcoin networks are morebetterest.

1066 sats \ 1 reply \ @OgFOMK 6 Feb

I've been in commercial construction since 1987. I've done IT, too but I've always done better by building things, helping teams to build and estimating projects.

Currently I mine FIAT but building piers for people. As long as there is waterfront property people want piers for their boats. When shit gets weird inland boat owners can hit the water and ignore the clowns.

924 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheFish OP 6 Feb

I love it, I did 10 years of marine construction, dredging and rip rap placement. I would classify that as production as it can develop the shipping infrastructure and commodity exports.

534 sats \ 2 replies \ @fm 6 Feb

try to ask AI to grow shit.. impossible.. thats a hobby now, but i can always take a professional stance

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheFish OP 6 Feb

For sure, looking to build a mining greenhouse this year. 3rd year growing, I would love to make it a year round event. I forgot to mention how I think regenerative agriculture gets a huge bump with low time preference thinking

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 6 Feb

looking to build a mining greenhouse this year

Do it, worth the effort

309 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 6 Feb freebie

I'd call myself a programmer and I don't really care if it's transferrable to the future.

When people talk about retiring they say things like, "I don't want to be a WalMart greeter in my old age." I say, "that isn't as bad as you think it is."

Rich or poor I'll do whatever the fuck and my income level and how I achieve it won't matter much for what it's like to be me. I get most of my positive and negative feelings from other things.

893 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 6 Feb

I get most of my positive and negative feelings from other things.

Jesus talk about burying the lede.

What are the things?

945 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 7 Feb

My relationships with people and the sense that I’m improving at something that might have positive externalities for other people. What else is there? :)

480 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 7 Feb

Well I mean there is this.

200 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 7 Feb

I have fantasized about becoming so rich that I buy all the homes surrounding the host of the airbnb I used to live next to and turning them into massive party airbnbs.

I'd also need the money to renovate them with heated pools and jacuzzis as close to the property line as possible and an outdoor bar and dance floor fitted with an excellent stereo system. Also, shaping any structure surrounding the outdoor party facilities like an amphitheater directed at the host's home.

Other than that, happy to say "Welcome to WalMart" until I die.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheFish OP 7 Feb

Giga Chad move

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheFish OP 6 Feb

Absolutely, I'm a construction worker and freaking love building stuff. I would love to build my own company with my skills when I have the capital base to do so. Screw retiring early when I have skills to offer people that the competition doesn't.

993 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 6 Feb

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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @harrr 6 Feb

I'm a professional hodler and only work to stash more sats, if bitcoin succeeds I'll just stop working.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @lonestarr 7 Feb

My old profession was software developer at banks and the Fed. The technical skills yes, the business use cases I hope not. Please, please, please don't use Chaumian Mints for fractional reserves. It seems like we have tried that and the results were more negative than positive. Unsustainable growth is not growth, it is a house of cards. /rant

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @03479d0ee6 6 Feb

I'm a software developer and I think my job will be more at risk with AI than with Bitcoin. I also think Bitcoin will benefit from AI because it will detect bugs and risks more easily. Bitcoin alone will not affect dev jobs in my opinion, maybe bitcoin integrations and services will require more devs to migrate from traditional finance services to bitcoin. I think in a bitcoin world jobs like managers, marketing, advertising, jobs that don't produce or build things will suffer more because no one will want to spend sats in someone that just sends emails and does meetings. I think people will turn more to things that they can build and produce, construction, agriculture, cooking food etc.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheFish OP 6 Feb

I honestly think dev jobs will be huge as the world has to adapt to Bitcoin. Every company needs to get onboarded, smart mining infrastructure. Systems developers for home heating with mining as well. The future is bullish for those that can innovate and develop! Congrats

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 7 Feb

Software engineering. I am learning maths now to avoid my skills become too common, and to win competition with Vietnamese people and machine learning. So I anticipate the effects of machine learning rather than Bitcoin, the later in my case being only positive, at least at the moment.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 7 Feb

I'm a bitcoiner so I believe it is transferrable but most to people with diamond hands and the principle to always keep learning

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 6 Feb

Bitcoin may over time obsolete many middle-men type professions. Its a good idea to be thinking ahead especially if you are early in your career.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KLT 6 Feb

Filmmaker. I feel like people will always want to see movies, we just have to make sure we do right by everyone by giving them something worth seeing / spending their sats on.