Unemployed Techies Getting Snatched Up by the Adult Entertainment Industry
Proof sex doesn’t just sell but is actively hiring as well
A surprising number of laid-off technology-sector employees are not just finding new jobs but, as Forbes reports, often considerably higher-paying ones in the adult entertainment industry.
Specifically, landing positions relating to keeping customers safe and potentially ruinous digital intrusions at bay.
Danny Veiga of Chadix, an AI-powered, SEO-content-generating software platform, says in the same article that we might be witnessing a significant shift in the technology-related job market: “Major content platforms require advanced cybersecurity, AI-driven content moderation, and cloud infrastructure management, leading to a steady demand for experienced IT professionals.”
Veiga used the example of an ex-software engineer who found a new and far more profitable career administering servers belonging to an online adult content provider.
Work hard for the money
For the sake of context, some of the other unexpected industries technology specialists have been flocking to include aerospace, traditional trades such as HVAC maintenance and welding, healthcare, freelance work, and non-adult industry cybersecurity.
Though attempting to allay fears that artificial intelligence technology could soon leave skilled workers on the unemployment line, the Forbes article doesn’t give much info on why it shouldn’t.
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Unlike a more alarming Caper article suggests that some fifteen different occupations could be rendered obsolete. However, most don’t seem to require extensive training or years of hands-on experience.
Takin’ care of business
The adult entertainment industry’s steady rise, showing hardly any sign of imminent abatement, isn’t exactly headline news.
For example, The Business Research Company cites a respectable 9% growth rate that will lead to a one hundred and one billion dollar market share by 2029.
While AI may or may not take a bite out of the industry’s labor pool, it’s arguable that even if it does make a percentage of jobs obsolete, the adult content business will always need qualified technicians to do everything from ensuring sites are secure to caring, feeding, and coding all those ever-increasingly sophisticated, machine learning systems.
Take this job and—
Despite the obvious need for qualified people, adult industry employment might have quite a few potentially career-harming downsides, including even being associated with it.
Several commenters on The Workplace said it’d be a scarlet letter that’d follow anyone remotely connected to it:
I’m a liberal and I personally would be put off by knowing you worked for that kind of company. It’s like working for a tobacco company or teaching call center employees how to deny health insurance claims.
Another suggests hiding any involvement:
No one needs to know that the websites are adult sites. Your resume should say “website development: content and media distribution”. In the interview, “Small-scale media distribution” or any other euphemism you can manage. Presentation, presentation, presentation. Unless the firm’s name carries anything remotely resembling the 3X, it’s a circumstance you should be able to manage.
On the plus side, others take a more professional approach:
Yes, working in the adult industry in any capacity will limit your future career options. There will always be someone who will make an assumption about your morality based on that. The same also applies to working for the military. Or Big Pharma. Or in gambling. Or banking. Or law. Or insurance. And so that list goes on.
Working for the weekend
As long as capitalism rules the roost, forcing people to work in order to survive—and the adult business can’t keep booming without capable, tech-savvy employees—then everything is, if not right, then at least not quite as bad as it could be.
Still, the situation could be improved by financial institutions, government services, laws, and lawyers—as well as society in general—could finally accept that work is work, whether it’s healing the sick, raising or tearing down buildings, fixing or selling cars, or maintaining a site chock full of explicit videos.
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