## 50 If I missed something...

Sometimes, I'm feeling that my life could have been different. I have made choices, bad or good. I'm quite happy with that life and what I am. But I could have been richer, maybe famous or something like that. Just for choices…But who cares?

Look at my blogs. In the golden age of blogs, I could have monetized the blog with links to sponsors etc... I could have chosen other topics with more clicks than this odd mix of topics. But I'm not, and I write for me first. Maybe that's the main problem. I can't imagine having sponsors without ethics. And I don't want to be famous or just known. I don't want to be recognised and that's why I didn't go from blogging to videos like YouTube or Tiktok. I'm also not made for politics, as I've proved again in recent weeks. Giving my word is sacred to me and politics is the opposite of that. I wrote many articles for a webzine for 3 years and we had projects for it to be different from other webzines with something new in culture. But the reality is so different and other people took the lead, changed their minds, changed the direction with... sponsors. Now it's a boring site that only promotes commercial and public events, with nothing about geopolitics and technology, as in the beginning. It's their choice and 
they're still alive. I was certainly wrong... but I was not made for it. So you can imagine what journalists have to do, sometimes in newspapers.

I may have missed something in my work too. I lost years in different jobs in the same company. It was sometimes boring with bad meetings. With difficulty I managed to create and develop a real non-dimensional metrology laboratory. It was against the company's policy and with no money at all, just recovered, transformed or created measuring instruments. I had to fight a lot, but now I'm facing reality again and I have to change. Money is the only motive in the company, even if they say "quality"... All the people around me are close to retirement. We do not recruit young people, except engineers who do not know anything about quality and metrology. They don't know what's going on in the car industry in China and Korea. It's the same with my colleagues from the USA, Italy and Germany. The short-term strategy to make money is killing the US car industry and will do the same in Europe. It's going to be a big defeat in 5 or 10 years if nothing changes. In my little job I'm just a passive witness. I'm tired of fi
ghting for every euro so that the team can just work. My former boss is smarter than me. He chose to work in the financial branch, where investments are validated. Above all, he doesn't make waves. He just goes with the flow. I can't do that, I have to let my passion speak for me.

But in this AI era, I have to think that some jobs will be replaced by AI, algorithms, ... In finance, that's the case, and some jobs are just there to slow down and filter investments. You could change that with computers. A lot of journalists and content creators are using AI. Some authors are using it for parts of their books. Just a passing trend? I hope so, but in this world of out-of-control capitalism, money is the motive. If investors are hooked on AI, it's because they hope to make more money with fewer people. Yes, I missed something there. I also had the choice to automate part of my work in metrology. But without money it's difficult and I didn't want to fight for it again. In my life I have seen the beginning and the end of services, sites and plants. I had to run away so as not to be part of the redundancy and outsourcing plans. And I didn't miss anything for that. 

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