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13
Dec 06

Cancelled supposed job interview with Azeus

Because of an exam until early in the afternoon today and other school requirements that I have to accomplish ASAP, I decided to have the appointment with Azeus cancelled. It was almost a last minute decision: the interview was scheduled at two in the afternoon, and I contacted the company at nine in the morning. There goes my supposed first job interview. Anyway, the lady I was talking on the phone with told me that she will contact me again for another schedule, but I am not counting on it.

I find it kinda cool that I do not regret making the decision even just a little bit. I knew I was tired, and I did not want to push myself further. Heh, so I actually do take care of myself now.

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7
Dec 06

First job interview

Just the other day, Azeus called to schedule a job interview with me next week. This was a couple of days after some batchmates and I took an on-site test for the company. So I guess I will be having my first job interview ever next week.

I still do not know what exactly the company does, but the job requirements posted at their career page:

Software Developer

Responsible for programming, systems analysis and design, software design and technology investigation.

  • Graduate of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology related courses, Engineering or Mathematics
  • Fresh graduates must have good academic standing
  • Willing to travel abroad

somehow make the company appealing.

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12
Nov 06

Obsolete jobs by 2012

I was looking through my hard disk, and I came across something I wrote for an online forum discussion on jobs that are seen likely to be obsolete by 2012. It might be worth a read:

It is a given that the cause of the mentioned careers becoming obsolete, if they do become obsolete, would be the existence of technology that could take care of the tasks at hand. Some people have a tendency to blame technology for this, to say that machines are beginning to dominate the world. I think this should not be the way we look at this issue. The jobs machines are likely to take over are mostly repetitive jobs, jobs that most people do not even enjoy, jobs that they do merely for the sake of earning money. It is not wrong to say that some of these jobs are even dehumanizing, not requiring the least bit of human judgment and human interaction. It is exactly because of these qualities of the jobs that machines may be made to handle them.

From one point of view, I say that if machines do dominate repetitive careers, it will be a good thing for humanity. People who used to spend time on repetitive work will then have time to focus on more humanly things in life, such as art, and love. There are other things to consider, however. In most countries, those who have repetitive careers are those people who constitute the lower classes of
society. They usually are the ones who are less financially capable. Machines will most likely be owned by those from the higher classes, and if the lower class people lose their jobs because of technology, the gap between the rich and the poor will become even bigger. If the upper classes of society are irresponsible, who knows what will happen to the lower classes.

Rather irrelevant insights:

Taking data entry as an example, if there was technology to replace data entry workers, there’d still be a need for a person to feed the materials into the machines. If a machine was made to replace the person who feeds the data into the machines, there’d still be a person needed to accept the materials from other people. That goes on. In the end, people still control the machines. Only, there are less people needed to actually complete the task.

Also, I find it very possible that manual data entry will become obsolete by 2012. At the present, there already are artificial intelligence (AI) concepts that consider partial truths observable in natural languages. I have not been following the actual developments, but I do know that the specific fields of voice recognition and handwriting analysis have been steadily growing. With the very large number of people currently dwelling on AI, data entry doesn’t seem to be a very sustainable profession.