Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, SpaceX (and king of Twitter on some days!), wants to quit his job and become an 'influencer'

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's new announcement might not go down with social media influencers as the billionaire wants to join the game of "influencing".

On Thursday, one of the world's richest men, Musk took to his official Twitter account to tell his fans that he is thinking of quitting his job for good. And do what? You wonder. Well, become an influencer.

"Thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt," Musk tweeted, without adding much to it or giving any context. (Just for so you know: 'Wdyt' stands for 'What do you think'.)


It's not yet clear if Musk, who's never been a serious critic or sharer on the micro-blogging site, meant it when he said he was quitting his roles or he was just being sarcastic.


But the Tesla and SpaceX chief's latest tweet succeeded in evoking thousands of responses from social media users within minutes. The tweet already has over 226K likes.

"I'll coach u on how to get YouTube views!" a YouTube influencer replied to which Musk responded with a joined hands emoji.

Several Twitter users jokingly asked Musk if they could swap their roles with the billionaire with him becoming an influencer on social media and them taking over as the Tesla boss and the richest man on the planet.

During a conference call in January, Musk revealed that he would like having some "free time on his hands as opposed to just working day and night."

"It would be nice to have a bit more free time on my hands as opposed to just working day and night, from when I wake up to when I go to sleep 7 days a week. Pretty intense." Musk, who is also the founder and CEO of rocket company SpaceX, and leads brain-chip startup Neuralink and infrastructure firm The Boring Company, also said that he expects to be the CEO of Tesla for "several years".

Earlier on Monday, Musk had told his fans on Twitter that he is hiring Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who are passionate about solving day-to-day problems through AI.

"As always, Tesla is looking for hardcore AI engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people's lives in a major way," Musk tweeted along with a link to apply for the job.


So how do you apply? It's simple. Candidates can apply by filling in fields like name, email, exceptional work done in software, hardware or AI, attaching their resume in the PDF format and then clicking on the Apply button once required boxes are filled.

As per the website, Tesla's AI and Autopilot unit develops and deploys autonomy at scale in vehicles, robots and several other fields.