Being a line cook without talking to AI.

Difficulty: Impossible.Let’s set the scene. I am a line cook by profession but my passion is in fashion. I am on the job hunt and I figure the best way to find my Ikigai is the internet, so I look up “fashion line cook career” in my favorite search engine. I am moderately tech savvy so I skip past the first few results of ads and click on a posting asking for a line cook at a fashion show. Immediately an annoying chatbot pops up and is promptly closed, but as soon as I click on apply it pops up again? Maybe I have to click and reject some permissions explicitly. I look into the terms, find some odd permissions I don’t really want to accept, scroll to find the reject button, click and the sub-window of the chatbot displays a satisfying DECLINED. I close the window and click on apply, only to be gated by the now declined chatbot. I cannot get past this bot. The year is 2026 and I can no longer apply to be a line cook without having to first talk to a machine. What a movie this would…