#278

Thread also contains this doozy

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#279

Boring response but it looks like for the time being robotics and AI is going to be more about integrating robotics into existing workflows rather than rather than deploying and displacing workers.

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#280

if you’re a data entry/admin type person then you might be in luck, all the really repeatable process driven stuff is getting automated pretty well.

it’s the stuff that requires a decision that’s trickier, have been involved in a few projects where there’s machine learning involved to process tonnes of data and it’s mostly failed. will get there eventually though :robot: :+1:

or what @wewerewerewolvesonce said

#281

@discobot what do you have to say about this meat bag slagging your kind off?

#282

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

#283

Ah I see taking the high ground and turning the other cheek

#284

In my line of work it’s not a case of robotic automation taking over but there are ways that other types of automation can take over. Now, if I’m working on a novel, rather than going through the entire InDesign document and applying style sheets, I just write a quick script. For example, if there’s a tab at the beginning of a paragraph it will apply normal text style plus an indent with the tab being deleted. No tab means normal text style with no indent. All bold text means that the script will apply the style sheet for a chapter heading and put a page break in front. All I then have to do is scroll through and check for where the person who typed/edited the manuscript hasn’t set up the text properly. Lots of time saved.

#285

i don’t know why but such a long and detailed reply being to @discobot has done me

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#287

Ha ha. Damn it. I replied to the wrong post in this thread. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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#288

It’s fine, discobot really cares about your work woes, don’t you @discobot fortune?

#289

:crystal_ball: My reply is no

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#290

Pretty blunt :grimacing:

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#291

Don’t worry, @discobot I’m used to bluntness from humans so from a bot doesn’t bother me.

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#292

Enjoyed the last option here

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#294

I find this place a good barometer for a lot of things - work is not one of them for me personally. Enjoy reading, just don’t bother contributing.

#295

I honestly, honestly cannot see the appeal in being a manager. Even if it means being on £30K+.

I’m too much of a ‘creative’ sort of person, I think. That’s what I want to do for a living. I don’t want to spend my time in some stereotypical awful office environment ordering people about. Just seems really fucking boring and awful.

There must be other high-paying jobs out there which aren’t just ‘managing’ people, but nobody seems to speak of them as though they even exist, or are viable/pragmatic options, so everybody just seems to be a manager instead whether they like it or not, because that’s all that comes up on Job Search sites.

I also just don’t like the word ‘manager’.

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#296

I saw a job advert the other day for a vacancy at the Daily Mail. I couldn’t bring myself to apply even though I could do the job well and it pays well enough. But I did consider that third option in my mind, albeit briefly.

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#297

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#298

I would be so bored if I was a manager. If I’m working seven or more hours a day I want to enjoy what I am doing to a fairly high degree. That said, with enough experience a creative sort of person ought to be getting above £30k in my opinion.

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