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I think we'd be past "jobs" if it were possible to store and read memory in DNA with the human brain.

Then who would be in charge of creating new knowledge, and who would put it into our brains or DNA? Knowing everything humans have discovered so far would only change the type of jobs we would have, we would still need to have jobs though.

Hence the quotations, we'd be past the traditional 9 to 5 and in pursuit of loftier ambitions.

Your parent asks about simply storing data in DNA-form, and splicing it into an organism. Splicing computer data into your DNA does not immediately fill your head with knowledge.

If it did, why, you'd never have to study protein sequences- you'd already know how to make hemoglobin!

At the point where we'd engaged in massive-scale genetic engineering to insert knowledge into our DNA chain, jobs may no longer be the significant driving force of our lives. Or, at least, I'd like to hope that we'd have been able to move beyond them.