# Looking for a dream job

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 28, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-dream-job/1020223 "2025-06-28T07:40:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-dream-job/1020223/44 "2025-06-29T17:48:15Z")

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> [@Mijin](#):
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> There are plenty of contract jobs for software engineers and they pay well enough that I know plenty of people who work half the year and travel the remaining half and still live comfortably middle-class.

I’ve read in several places that 25% of openings for software engineering jobs have gone away thanks to AI. I’m sure top level design and requirements definition jobs will still be around, but it is going to be hard for someone like the OP to get a foot in the door learning from scratch.  
No AI could have done the design job I did on my last software project, but it could have done the jobs of my helpers.  
Now software testing might be a good thing to get into, since I wouldn’t trust a fully AI generated piece of code as far as I could throw it, not if it was reasonably complex.

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