Could a monkey do your job?

I make $58k and a monkey definitely could not do my job.

Definitely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way_Dh0VYJ8

less than that, and no.

This thread is completely idiotic if people only list their salary and whether or not a monkey could do their job. Say your job title letsrun!

That only works if your job title is "monkey" and your job description is something like "Fling poop and yell incoherently about nothing"...wait a second...

Could a monkey run Flagpole's PRs?

800, 2:03

1 mile, 4:34

2 mile, 9:21

5K, 14:58

8K XC 25:15

10K, 32:25

1/2 marathon, 1:15

marathon 2:55

Company: Hidden Valley

Title/Position: Lead Associate, Salad Dressing Mixer (Thousand Island)

Salary: $23,000 (paid hourly, but it basically adds to this)

A monkey could definitely do the 'mixing' part of my job, which is 95% of it. I literally push a couple buttons over and over again to mix the different dressing batches. It's the quality control and specific steps (how much to mix and when) where the monkey could have problems, but that could probably be programmed into the system. I hate my life.

I underwrite commercial loans for a bank. If the old line is true that a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, I think it would take at least a couple of monkeys to do my job.

I'm a financial analyst for a massive corporation. My role is entry-level and very specific. The main tasks of my job description could probably be automated to the point where a monkey could do it. I basically know exactly what tasks I will be doing based on the day of the week and the week of the fiscal month. The issue is that there are constantly small changes to the process, so it wouldn't be worth automating any further.

That and I do a lot of work above and beyond my job description, which involves quite a bit of human analysis and problem solving. I would imagine this is the case for many jobs, regardless of industry.

C.M. Burns wrote:

I'm a financial analyst for a massive corporation. My role is entry-level and very specific. The main tasks of my job description could probably be automated to the point where a monkey could do it. I basically know exactly what tasks I will be doing based on the day of the week and the week of the fiscal month. The issue is that there are constantly small changes to the process, so it wouldn't be worth automating any further.

That and I do a lot of work above and beyond my job description, which involves quite a bit of human analysis and problem solving. I would imagine this is the case for many jobs, regardless of industry.

Even in the dressing industry?

Monkey, CEO wrote:

I underwrite commercial loans for a bank. If the old line is true that a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, I think it would take at least a couple of monkeys to do my job.

That is a mistaken version of the 'room full of monkeys theorem. It would take many orders of magnitude larger if both the number of monkeys and the number of years to produce a sonnet correctly. You would also need an appropriate mechanism to parse all of the 'attempts'.

As for the original question, I suppose that a monkey might do an 'epsilon' of my job, but I cannot think of anything that I do that a monkey could accomplish.

could a monkey post on Letsrun?

rhgdrh wrote:

could a monkey post on Letsrun?

Monkeys do so everyday.

an 'epsilon' of my job

wtf does an epsilon of your job mean?

is it something akin to I row a boat and a monkey 'en epsilona' rows a teacup?

Yes, since my days consist of running, going to the gym, day trading, posting on this site and drinking.

Yes, its just algorithms

Yes, I'm a professional runner. A monkey could be pretty good at it too.

No, but monkeys are more capable than 95% of my coworkers

No, but I could automate 90-93 percent of it, and turn the work that takes a half-dozen staff all week to do, into maybe 3 hours for one person.

Or I can just sit here and 'work' really slowly, and still get paid.