Posted on 08/05/2025 6:23:34 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has advice for recent graduates: Embrace AI tools, but don’t expect any stability when it comes to the job search.
Gen Z is increasingly burned out from job hunting before even getting started. Frustrated applicants have lamented on TikTok about the number of rejection emails they have received from companies and expressed fears that the job market feels broken. And recent data backs them up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S. overall dwindled by about 35% since January 2023, and roles that are easily automated by AI are experiencing a disproportionately large impact.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for recent college grads has climbed above 6% over the past 12 months ending in May.
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Law school graduates will be very hard hit.
Why is Bill Gates still safe?
AI is going to separate the truly intelligent from the ones who excel at only copy/pasting.
“Learn to Prompt.”
Plumbers are safe, and they make up to $200K a year.
Unless they have to compete with illegals.
Well...if you’ve majored in SOCIAL JUSTICE, WOMEN’S STUDIES, LGBTQRATOSNNLMN, TRANSGENDER VICTORIAN POETRY,or any of the other “underwater basket weaving kind of majors, getting a job after graduating,is going to be a gigantic problem!
How the heck do you get “burned out” before even getting started?
Is Gates out there diddling under age girls again?
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
Moving our factories overseas created many idle hands here.
AI will create many more idle hands.
I don’t know how this will play out. But it won’t be like the old days, when out of work wagon makers got jobs in automotive plants.
I’m not optimistic.
People may remember that a few decades ago, the MBA people decided that “middle management” was a waste of money. What did those guys do, anyway? They managed a team of 5? maybe 10 people? Middle management got hollowed out and now somebody with a spreadsheet manages 100 or 150 people. Doesn’t know who they are or what they do, but he manages the team.
AI coming for the entry level jobs? That’s bad for anyone starting out.
And the lucky ones who actually get some kind of entry level job, despite AI? How will they ever advance? There’s no middle management layer. Do you plan to go from “entry level” to “I manage 150 people” as your next little step up? There is a lot of competition for that next little step up.
Work is going to change for a lot of people. Because their labor contribution will no longer be needed or valued.
That is what my nephew will be doing.
The occupation of paralegal is virtually wiped out. 90% of audit staff in CPA firms are going to disappear. Engineering drawing is already a thing of the past. But most of the lost jobs will be in India.
Deflation is coming to wages and other areas. That is point of the billions and billions in spending by companies to tech advancements; eliminate costs and the human edge in work.
We have our government joining forces with powerful groups that want to eliminate the human inefficiency, good luck.
“AI” is being used as a scapegoat for layoffs to increase the profit of corporations. Odd that CEOs and other C-Suite members don’t seem to be too “threatened” by the miraculous “AI”.
I am a retired number cruncher and was viewed as a subject matter expert—but there is no doubt that AI would have replaced me in a few years if I was still working.
It will be smarter and faster than I could ever hope to be.
I would think a lot of the tax preparation industry will be another AI casualty.
The senior executives will be safe for a few years—but their day is coming as well.
> Why is Bill Gates still safe? <
I’m still trying to decide who is more evil, Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci.
Maybe it’s a tie.
Return to the trades that cannot be replaced by AI.
I don’t think AI is going to take over plumbing, electrical, mechanical, or construction jobs any time soon.
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