I'm amazed at the inflexibility of work and massive variance in pay. I have two compsci degrees and a good number of years in computer security. There aren't really any part time work options for me. I could go to a big N and make 250k+ per year, but there aren't any jobs where I can work for 3 days a week and make 100k per year.
As well, if I'm looking to switch fields, I'm pretty confident I could get comfortable in a new domain in a month or so. Still, I don't think anyone would hire me in those domains (e.g. GIS / remote sensing).
Then there is the option of if I wanted to get out of computers all together. Yoga instructors don't make enough for me to justify that career move to myself.
Where are our 3d printed houses and autonomous indoor farms? With that I could probably figure out what I actually wanted my life to be and what would make me happy, rather than just playing in the system of maximizing income and telling myself I'm doing well.
I agree by now we should have more flexible work options at companies but I think they're held back by a combination of corporate policies that make them annoying to work with at the manager level (at my workplace we have them but they have to be renewed every year by you, your manager, and their boss) and a certain culture that favors butts in seats for ease of access and plain simplicity (eg: if the person is important in your decision chain or knows how to do something working 3 days a week can mean a 4 day delay for any work/communication if it comes at the wrong time).
> Where are our 3d printed houses and autonomous indoor farms?
The shell or frame is the single most expensive part of the house but there's a lot more that has to be done to turn the concrete shell into a livable home: utilities, interior fixtures, interior finish, exterior finish, foundation, site readying.
As for the farms there are some but they're toys because open air farming is so much cheaper that there's no real money behind the indoor farm idea at the moment, until land or transport becomes much more expensive the cost of providing all the light for the plants is going to lose out to getting it for free. Also robotic handling of small plants isn't really there yet, partially because there's cheap labor that can do everything already and partially because it's a hard set of problems to generically pick and handle all types of produce.
As well, if I'm looking to switch fields, I'm pretty confident I could get comfortable in a new domain in a month or so. Still, I don't think anyone would hire me in those domains (e.g. GIS / remote sensing).
Then there is the option of if I wanted to get out of computers all together. Yoga instructors don't make enough for me to justify that career move to myself.
Where are our 3d printed houses and autonomous indoor farms? With that I could probably figure out what I actually wanted my life to be and what would make me happy, rather than just playing in the system of maximizing income and telling myself I'm doing well.