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The Career Apocalypse Veterans

The Career Apocalypse Veterans
Technological obsolescence anxiety is a time-honored tradition in STEM fields. Programmers fretting over ChatGPT are merely the latest initiates to this existential crisis club, while mathematicians have been calmly adjusting their CVs since the 1970s. Nothing quite builds character like watching your decade of differential equation expertise get reduced to a $5 plastic device that fits in a pocket. The calculator crisis veterans are just sitting back with their coffee mugs, watching the AI panic with the serene smile of someone who's already survived their career apocalypse.

It Never Outdates: The Immortal Math Textbook

It Never Outdates: The Immortal Math Textbook
The eternal flex of mathematics! While physics textbooks become doorstops after Newton drops his apple-inspired revelations, and chemistry books turn obsolete the moment someone spots an electron, math books from literal antiquity still hold up. Euclid's Elements from 300 BCE? Still teaching triangles to confused teenagers. The Pythagorean theorem? Still making students sweat 2500 years later. Math is basically that one friend who refuses to update their wardrobe because "these togas are timeless, bro."

Here At The End Of All Things

Here At The End Of All Things
Oh the sweet irony of digital doom! This frozen wasteland perfectly captures the existential crisis of software engineers who've spent years perfecting their craft, only to watch AI casually learn to code better than them. It's like building your own guillotine and then handing it the instruction manual! The engineer is literally drilling through ice—a metaphorical grave for their soon-to-be obsolete career—while AI gets cozy writing better code in the background. The cold, barren landscape? That's just the job market in 5 years! *maniacal scientist laugh* Remember when we thought robots would just take over physical labor? Plot twist: your fancy CS degree might be worth less than that ice fishing hole!