29 October 2050
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
I am a 57 year old millennial and in order to keep surviving, I need to reinvent myself.
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How exactly
I should do this I don’t know. All I know is I must do something else to be
able to keep paying the rent, to have a health insurance, to make a simple
living. Yet, why and for what purpose, I don’t exactly know either.
I am an engineer, and that is probably the only thing I can be sure about myself these
days. I had studied first in Cairo, then in Rotterdam. Then, I moved back to Cairo and started working for a multinational green energy company. That was
the future back then, yet it turned out that it was the future for a mere 30 years. I was made redundant in the last round of lay-offs company has been
conducting in order to shrink the number of employees. All my career I worked
for photovoltaic projects, locating sites, evaluating investments from
different stakeholders’ views and coordinating the constructions. It is a very
analytical job and when you simplify it to a number of calculative tasks, you
can automate it of course. That is why I lost my job to software and when you
think about it, it totally makes sense. Almost all such jobs in energy
companies are now replaced by software so there is no way I can find a new job
by doing what I have been doing. It was coming, anyone could see that. Who
cares about anybody in the world of pure numbers anyways?
How exactly
I should do this I don’t know. All I know is I must do something else to be
able to keep paying the rent, to have a health insurance, to make a simple
living. Yet, why and for what purpose, I don’t exactly know either.
I am an engineer, and that is probably the only thing I can be sure about myself these days. I had studied first in Cairo, then in Rotterdam. Then, I moved back to Cairo and started working for a multinational green energy company. That was the future back then, yet it turned out that it was the future for a mere 30 years. I was made redundant in the last round of lay-offs company has been conducting in order to shrink the number of employees. All my career I worked for photovoltaic projects, locating sites, evaluating investments from different stakeholders’ views and coordinating the constructions. It is a very analytical job and when you simplify it to a number of calculative tasks, you can automate it of course. That is why I lost my job to software and when you think about it, it totally makes sense. Almost all such jobs in energy companies are now replaced by software so there is no way I can find a new job by doing what I have been doing. It was coming, anyone could see that. Who cares about anybody in the world of pure numbers anyways?
I am an engineer, and that is probably the only thing I can be sure about myself these days. I had studied first in Cairo, then in Rotterdam. Then, I moved back to Cairo and started working for a multinational green energy company. That was the future back then, yet it turned out that it was the future for a mere 30 years. I was made redundant in the last round of lay-offs company has been conducting in order to shrink the number of employees. All my career I worked for photovoltaic projects, locating sites, evaluating investments from different stakeholders’ views and coordinating the constructions. It is a very analytical job and when you simplify it to a number of calculative tasks, you can automate it of course. That is why I lost my job to software and when you think about it, it totally makes sense. Almost all such jobs in energy companies are now replaced by software so there is no way I can find a new job by doing what I have been doing. It was coming, anyone could see that. Who cares about anybody in the world of pure numbers anyways?