the reduction of intellectual labor

In my first student job, my team was responsible for scanning any incoming bills for the company. A software then detected all the different positions and numbers, and then our job was to verify the text fields and if necessary, correct them manually (a 6 could sometimes become a 0 or 8, etc.) before sending them off to whatever finances/controlling SAP setup they had. So was it very similar to work in the TV Show “Severance”? Yes. I was validating numbers for four hours a day. In my current job, I’ve been doing the work for so long now that everything runs on autopilot. It’s mostly product management necessitating data entry, document management, handling deadlines, sending out autogenerated emails, or using previously approved bits of text. I click buttons and copy in words or slightly edit a template. No intellectual labor needed at this point, really. Everything that actually necessitates it is short-lived, rare, or concluded. It’s what bothers me greatly and is unsatisfying; I…

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