Comment by dluan

1 day ago

My dad is an immigrant from China who came to America to learn process engineering. After getting his master's, his first job was at a Reynold's aluminum factory in Alabama, and his factory made aluminum stuff and sometimes bottles. 40 years later, after lots of career jumps, he is about to retire this month from Google's AI division.

I don't really know what the lesson here is.

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ronbenton  1 day ago

Something about adaptability? Over time lots of jobs will go away—be it through obsolescence, offshoring, etc. I don’t think the answer is to try to get those jobs to magically come back but rather to find something else.

RataNova  1 day ago

It came full circle... from process engineering in the physical world to process engineering in the digital one

  • dluan  1 day ago

    From China to America, where those original factory jobs went from America to China, and maybe AI at some point is destined to head there too.

    Also, I was born in that factory town and I'm currently writing this in Shanghai, where I'm trying to relocate to in hopes of better career/entrepreneurial opportunities lmao. The world is funny sometimes.