Engineer's Metaverse Job Loss
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Laid Off Metaverse Engineer Says He Is DoorDashing and Living in a Trailer

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Software engineer Shawn K says he was laid off at a company called Virbela some 12 months ago .
He says he once made six figures at the company, but now lives in a trailer in upstate New York .
Shawn worries that his situation may become more commonplace as tech companies race to replace their workers with algorithms.
He has been writing about his unfortunate "displacement" by automation on his personal Substack.
Shawn says he's nearing his 900th application for a job.
He says he has spent 2 to 5 hours per day reading AI news , papers, and podcasts.
Shawn also shared that the job hunt in the software industry has never felt so grim.
“Iâm sharing my real-life story of how I went from a highly valued technologist to basically nothing with the rise of AI .”.
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