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My friend got offers from Rockwell automation, inc and Capgemini.
The offer iis 17 LPA fixed from CapG and 17.5 Fixed + 2.5 Variable from Rockwell.
He wants to work as consultant and CapG is giving him that and Rockwell is giving him Developer designation.
His yoe is 4.5y. He is confused about where he should join.
PS He is in IOT and isn't in fishbowl yet. He will be soon, but in the meanwhile, it will be nice if anyone can clear the confusion or recommend something.
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Kids these days 🤦
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TIL: john legend is a BCG alum.
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Honestly this might be a “no ethical consumption in capitalism” situation.
You can probably avoid places like Consulting that will be heavily pushing AI, but the reality is that every industry will leverage AI to some degree.
I understand where you are coming from. Don't give up on finding that pathway. Many of these responses stating "no ethical consumption under capitalism" don't understand the concept of harm reduction. Or perhaps they do, and use that statement as an excuse to not give up anything that costs comfort. Wishing you the best in this journey!
I didn't feel like scrolling back up to find the comment but you're here now. And many others shared a similar sentiment of how being unethical is unavoidable, you just used the general phrase that's been floating the internet.
I'm unsure we read the same original post. I didn't see OP "indicate that it's easily avoidable". They asked about AI specifically (not all consumption), and how they can go about avoiding it, even though it probably means a huge career change. They also specified they will probably leave corporate America. It's like your response is to something else.
I just want to encourage OP to think outside the box. I left consulting and although my job isn't fully ethical (it is in America), and I took a small pay-cut, it is far more ethical than my last one and I can sleep better for it. Giving up some comforts has been beyond worth it. It was scary as hell leaving consulting and I can't count how many folks told me "everything is unethical anyway!" Yes, but I am currently trying to avoid this specific unethical thing. Still wishing OP luck on the journey! I'm on the same path too and it's been immensely rewarding
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Unfortunately, times are a changing. The best ammunition to your problem is too learn it or get into a career like an electrician, farmer, plumber or work for a non-profit. Even in all of these professions, in order to be competitive you will have to learn it in some capacity. Otherwise, move to Belize.
Trading - go off the grid and live frugal
I was supportive of OP in other posts but I've seen a few responses that are making me think a career pivot will be difficult for this person. OP is responding by saying "Why is a chef in the consulting bowl? Why is a dental hygienist in a consulting bowl?" Maybe they don't realize how this comes off, but putting "no offense but..." doesn't make it less offensive.
Lol, this isn't a fancy, exclusive consulting club we're paying for. Looks like the hierarchical thinking that is promoted in consulting is alive and well in this person.
Learn a trade
Become an artist
Become a wandering minstrel singing songs about the evils of AI
Consider the ways AI is a tool, like you computer, that might enhance your work rather than being inherently evil.
Ai is just a tool, like Excel or MS Word...how it is used is up to the individual. Don't be so dramatic.
Everything is unethical if you look/try deep enough.
AI is the pinnacle of unethical, it is not even in the realm of the unethical we have seen before. On top of that, it is consuming and polluting vast amounts of water while taking vast amounts of electricity while pretending to be novel- as it scrapes everyone else's work. Then, there is the hum of the data centers driving everyone insane who lives and works near them. Yeah, AI is unreal in the worst way. I still can't believe people think this tech is worth it.
Uncle Sam is probably hiring soon!
Become a doctor or join a non profit
I want to understand more. What aspect of AI is most unethical?
The extremely wealthy investors in AI are reaping the rewards of our hard-earned skills by stealing it from us, and as no one is hiring, some who are living hand to mouth have no choice but to take jobs teaching the AI their trade. There is no regulation for these companies (Mercor for one) who take advantage of these people, pinging them on Slack in the middle of the night to meet deadlines, then dropping them if they need to sleep. In the end, when AI has learned enough, there wont be enough coffee shops to employ the people displaced. Everyone wants to embrace this "tool" and compares it to tech advances from the past, but it makes no sense to hand all our hard earned knowledge over to mega-billionaires, giving them total control of us. How can anyone believe this will end well?
Run your own business. I help people evaluate franchise opportunities and most of them are people leaving corporate America
Hi Owner 1, I tried to Dm you but I am interested in connecting about franchise businesses and how to evaluate ROI
Non-profits. I hear they pay well...
If you can express why you feel something as vaguely expressed as two letters "AI" is fundamentally unethical, it might be easier to point you in the right direction.
Are you concerned about:
Displacing people in the workforce?
Invasive misuse to harvest private information or to create undetectable fraud?
Risks associated with poor implementation?
Inappropriate comingling of intellectual property?
I guess I wonder if the concern is about the tools themselves or the economic impact in an unregulated version of capitalism. If this is the worry, then maybe the target should be the unregulated version of capitalism...
Have you considered theatre?
Perhaps it's time for you to learn a trade: plumbing, welding, HVAC, etc.
How do those evade AI?
Its not an airport so no need to announce your departure
Pitch safe and ethical AI use. There’s a hungry market for that.
Cybersecurity
Move somewhere cheap and pretty and work in a café, or an insect restaurant, if you to Vietnam lol