He Topped His College. Now He Drives Uber. And It’s Not His Fault.
A story every Indian student — and every parent — needs to read right now.
There’s a story going around on LinkedIn right now that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.
A woman returns from the Delhi AI Summit — surrounded all day by founders, investors, billion-dollar pitches, and cutting-edge demos of India’s AI future. She gets into a cab on the way home.
And the driver — a college topper, the first in his entire family to ever get educated, the one everyone back home was counting on — quietly pulls out his degree and asks:
“Madam, AI will take away our jobs?”
He wasn’t asking out of paranoia. He was asking because he had already lived it.
“A task that used to need 100 people now needs 10. What do I do, Madam? I wake up at 5am. I studied hard. I applied everywhere. They said — we are automating this now. I didn’t study for 4 years to drive a car. But what choice do I have right now?”
Read that again. Slowly.
This young man did everything right. He studied. He worked hard. He became the pride of his family. And the market quietly moved on without him — before anyone bothered to tell him what was coming.
This Is Happening Right Now. In Kolkata. In Baguiati. In Every Neighbourhood Like Ours.
We don’t have to go to Delhi to find this story.
Walk around Baguiati. Talk to the graduate working at the grocery store. The BBA student doing data entry. The engineering pass-out waiting for a call that never comes.
Thousands of young people who studied hard, got their degrees, and are now standing at a crossroads — not because they are lazy or incompetent, but because nobody told them the rules of the game had changed.
AI is not coming. AI is already here.
And while the people in boardrooms debate regulation and investment — the students in our neighbourhoods are left figuring this out completely on their own.
The Real Problem Isn’t AI. It’s the Gap in Awareness.
AI won’t destroy jobs overnight. But it will — and already is — eliminating roles that don’t adapt.
- Data entry? Being automated.
- Basic accounting? Software handles it.
- Customer support? Chatbots are taking over.
- HR screening? AI tools sort resumes faster than any human team.
But here’s what people aren’t telling you — new roles are opening up too. AI Prompt Engineers. Automation Coordinators. Digital Marketing Specialists. Data Analysts. Social Media Managers. Content Creators using AI tools.
“The difference between the person who loses their job to AI and the person who gets hired because of AI is just one thing — awareness and the right skill training.”
Why We Started Talking About This at Technosoft Academy
We’ve been training students in Baguiati since 2001. Over 7,500 students have walked through our doors. We’ve seen every shift — from the time “knowing MS Office” was a big deal, to when Tally became essential, to when digital marketing exploded as a career.
Every time the market shifted, the students who were prepared moved forward. The ones who weren’t got left behind — through no fault of their own.
This AI shift is the biggest one we’ve seen in our lifetime. And we refuse to let our students be the cab driver in that story.
What You Can Do Right Now
You don’t need to become an AI engineer. You don’t need a computer science degree. You don’t need to move to Bangalore.
- Understand what AI is — even basic awareness changes how you present yourself in interviews.
- Learn digital tools — MS Office, Tally, social media management, basic data work.
- Add one AI-relevant skill — ChatGPT, Canva AI, Excel AI features. These take weeks to learn and immediately increase your market value.
- Get certified — employers increasingly look for certified candidates over plain degree holders.
The Summit Will Move On. The Question Is — Will You?
The founders and investors at that AI Summit will keep building. The technology will keep advancing. The automation will keep happening.
The only question is which side of the table you’ll be sitting on.
At Technosoft Academy, we’ve spent 23 years helping students from exactly this neighbourhood — from families exactly like yours — become the person who walks in prepared.
Come talk to us. No pressure. Just a real conversation about where you stand and what you can do next.
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