I think something's got to give in the whole system, right? Right? Give your kid 13 years from now, or even when they're 16, if they can code, they' learn something like a specialized skill. And they can just get a contract at 16 doing something, or an apprentice, let's u say, to a master craftsman by whoas o with five jobs. Why would he ever go to college if from day when he's making 200 thousand dollars? It's fasty. I prie spend more time making, you know, intellectual stuff, writing a book that i've long wanted to write about this whight of mine.
The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Isaac P, a tech worker secretly working multiple full-time jobs, to talk about the “overemployed” phenomenon (4:30), making $1 million a year (6:05), why the days of the employee are dead (8:25), the rise of remote monitoring tools (13:10), a typical day (14:30), his view of employers/companies (15:30), starting the website, Discord and Reddit (18:30), burnout (21:20), whether a slowing economy will kill the “overemployed” era (23:30), whether going to university is the best plan (28:00), and decoupling your identity from your job (30:10).
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