You open your laptop Monday morning with a question you can’t shake: Will I still have a job that matters in two years?
Not whether you’ll be employed. Whether the work you do will still mean something.
Last week, you spent three hours writing a campaign brief. You saw a colleague generate something 80% as good in four minutes using an AI agent. Maybe 90% as good if you’re being honest.
You still have your job. But you can feel it shrinking around you.
The problem isn’t that the robots are coming. It’s that you don’t know what you’re supposed to be good at anymore. That Excel expertise you built over five years? Automated. Your ability to research competitors and synthesize findings? There’s an agent for that. Your skill at writing clear project updates? Gone.
You’re losing your professional identity faster than you can rebuild it. And nobody’s telling you what comes next.
The Three Things Everyone Tries That Don’t Actually Work
When you feel your value eroding, you do what seems rational. You adapt. You learn. You try to stay relevant.
Here’s what that looks like for most people:
First, you learn to use the AI tools better. You take courses on prompt engineering. You master ChatGPT, Claude, whatever new platform launches next week. You become the “AI person” on your team. You think: if I can’t beat them, I’ll use them better than anyone else.
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