#futureofwork

NOW HIRING (apparently): Full-Time Email Re-Typer. No experience required. You already have the job.

Let me read you the description, because you applied without noticing.

ROLE: Manually retype the same ~30 messages every working day. The thank-you. The intro. The "just circling back." The "sounds good, let's set it up." Type each one from scratch, every time, as if you've never seen it before.

HOURS: ~4 per week, indefinitely. Roughly 11 working days a year.

COMPENSATION: Paid entirely in exhaustion. Bonus structure: a vague sense at 6 PM that you were busy all day but can't say doing what.

REQUIRED SKILLS: The ability to ignore that a computer could do this instantly. A high tolerance for typing "hope you're doing well" while feeling nothing.

CAREER GROWTH: None. The job is identical in year five.

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Here's the thing. You're overqualified for this role. You were hired for something else — the actual work, the thinking, the stuff only you can do. But this little copy-typist job got bolted on so quietly that you forgot it's optional.

So consider this your two-weeks' notice. To yourself.

The replacement is free, starts in 60 seconds, and never gets tired. You write each message once, turn it into a shortcut, and from then on it types itself — a few letters, the whole thing appears. When a new kind of message comes up, you describe it and AI drafts it.

You don't lose the job. You get promoted — back to the work you were actually hired to do.

The Re-Typer position is now vacant. Leave it that way.

→ keytext.app (free)

What's the most absurd task you do by hand that a machine should've taken over years ago? Let's write the job posting for it together.

#Productivity #FutureOfWork #Automation #CareerGrowth #WorkSmarter