AI took your job
Update: 2025-08-25
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Description
Hundreds of job applications, but not one call. Young workers are frustrated, scared, and wondering where all the entry-level jobs went.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Rebeca Ibarra, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King.
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Jobseekers at the Best Hire Chicago Career Fair. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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yikes! sounds sad, i betta' hold on to my job...j/k Lets get UBI goin while we r alive. i mean purpose of life isn't to just work pay bills n die is it? if u think about thats how majority r living. we definitely need to have bigger understanding of life. look into religion philosophy, understand the big picture, understand meaning of life. for me Islam does it..everyone seems to be worried about feeding ever deteriorating bodies, is any1 worried about their ever lasting soul? if u relate, chkout ali hammuda - change of heart series, to help u understand your purpose.