If you live in the Phoenix area, Google wants to pay you $20 dollars an hour to test their self-driving cars. That might sound like it's easy money, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The job would be six to eight hours a day, and $160 a day isn't bad money—taken over a year, with the full eight hours a day for five days a week, it would work out to $41,600. You'd be in a two-person team collecting data for Google's engineering team, and would need to type at least 40 words per minute.

Google's job ad notes that the position requires "constant focus," which, while an accurate description, downplays what that really means. "Constant focus" in a Google car means being in a perpetual state of almost-driving, your hands and feet about to touch the wheel and pedals, according to someone who's actually done it, Steven Levy of Backchannel. There's no moment off, or chance to enjoy the fact that you're in a self-driving car. That's why you're a test driver, after all. It turns out the hourly jobs of the future are a lot like the hourly jobs of the present: physical stress, tedious repetition, and pretending to care until your boss looks the other way.

And, of course, in this case your boss is a self-driving car, so good luck with that.

Source: Mashable

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