Headline, January 16 2025/ COMING : ''' STUDENTS* -JOBS- STUMPING '''

COMING : 

''' STUDENTS* -JOBS-

 STUMPING '''

SOME OF THE BEST CAREER ADVICE I'VE RECEIVED didn't come from a mentor - or even a human. I told a chatbot that A.I. was swallowing more and more of my work as a copywriter and that I needed a way to survive.

The bot paused, processing my situation, and then suggested I buy a chain saw.

After factory jobs disappeared, neighbours without college degrees began dying in disproportionate numbers. In 2017, as opioids deaths reached a record high nationwide, a local radio station, Eagle Country, reported that county residents were '' taking their own lives at a startling rate.''

Preoccupied with my challenges and those of the people I cared most about, I rarely gave much thought to this crisis. For most of my adult life, I wrote nonfiction novels, making ends meet as a freelance copywriter.

I assumed I was protected from the outsourcing and automation that had left so many of my neighbors unmoored.

Over time, however, marketing departments began hiring contractors overseas for a small fraction of my rate. Then they turned to artificial intelligence, which could spit out something good enough - or even exceptional - in seconds.

MAYBE I should have seen it coming. I had  hired a woman in the Philippines to do transcription work, but once A.I.proved just as capable, I began using the transcriptionist less often, then not at all.

When my own work was being replaced, though, I felt shocked and ashamed. I was like a factory worker who had watched manufacturing jobs disappear for years yet, after decades on a production line, still couldn't believe that he, too, was being let go.

A new and disquieting thought confronted me : What if, despite my college degree, I wasn't more capable than my neighbors but merely capable in a different way? And what if the world was telling me - as it had told them - that my of being capable, and of contributing was no longer much valued?

Whatever answers I told myself, I was now facing the same reality my working-class neighbors knew well : The world had changed, my work had all but disappeared, and still the bills wouldn't stop coming.

And so it was that one anxious night, after staring at the due date for my property tax.

I asked a chatbot what it thought would be the best work for me, exactly the way - if I had more money. I might have sought help from a counselor : I explained my work experience, where I lived and how urgently I needed income.

Of the options it provided, cutting and trimming trees for local homeowners was listed as No. 1.

I asked if that was seriously my best option.

''YES,'' the bot wrote. '' Based on your situation, skills and urgent need for income, tree work sales is almost certainly your fastest path to real money.''

It told me, what equipment I'd need, where to buy it, which neighborhoods to canvass, what time of day to knock on doors and even the nearest landfills where I could drop off brush.

Never mind the irony of taking career advice from the kind of machine that was replacing me. I felt increasingly hopeful. I love being outdoors, and soon I discovered I loved the clarity of the work.

Unlike with copywriting, clients could never ask me to do the job over in a different way. The dead tree they'd wanted gone was now gone. And seeing them happy, handing me money, always made me happy, too.

So if our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread through office parks and home offices - and the grief long borne by the working class may soon be borne by us all.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on A.I., Students, Jobs, and the Future, continues. The World Students Society thanks Brian Groh.

With most respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of !WOW! - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world - and then Leaders, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers.

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