Two 19-year-olds skip college for gutter cleaning: "AI can do all that stuff"
joshwhiton · x · 2026-10-16
A poster shares meeting two 19-year-olds going door-to-door offering gutter cleaning — ladder, leaf-blower, truck, no college plans. Their reasoning: "We don't like school. AI can already do all that stuff anyway." It's a smart business since clogged gutters are visible from the street — a small but telling case of young people reweighing degrees vs. hands-on work in the AI era.
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