Rohit Chopra

Well bittersweet congratulations Maybe at the end of the we'll play some of the Barbie thing at the end of the end of this He loves it so much.

He loves it so much.

I know it's great so let's let's start with a little bit of the video of yours that kind of went went viral like that was getting attention about the difficulties of Finding work and at this moment.

Let's roll f1.

And then you have AIs that can wrangle themselves and I'm not even useful anymore.

So I'm going into a PhD.

Hopefully I can do a little bit of research about AIs, even though I don't have access to the best AIs.

So what was your job application process like before you made the decision to just pull the plug on it?

Yeah, so pretty much all of last summer, I just spent applying to internship positions.

I was looking for some web development positions because I've done a lot of full-stack web development work.

I was also looking for AI internships, stuff like that, because I've experienced fine-tuning large language models to do specific tasks.

But

you know, I applied to probably definitely over a hundred job applications.

I did at least like

one to three every day.

Like I forced myself over last summer, mostly on like LinkedIn, but you know, I'm not counting any of those like stupid, like easy apply things because those don't, those don't really do anything.

No one ever responds to those.

So just counting the ones where, you know, I found the job application on LinkedIn, went to the employer's website, definitely over a hundred.

And I mean,

I didn't get... I feel like I'm almost lucky in the sense that I got probably like 30 to 40 rejections.