My company just hired a Sr. VP Chief AI Officer and intends to spread AI throughout the enterprise. It feels like an ominous sign for perhaps layoffs and headcount reduction in the not-too-distant future. With the current trend of companies wanting to embed AI into their ways of working, does this worry you about the labor market for the future in your current industry? How/what are you doing to prepare?

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Oh it's beyond real. Many many jobs have been lost to it already. It's why college grads now can't get 15hr jobs. The wage has already been lowered heavily. It's only going lower. College is really only good if you want to be a 4 year degrees nurse, or move on to Dr. Or if you are set on being a lawyer. Or if you want to teach. Other than those, if your going to college understand that unless you get an MBA from a top 25 Business School, or multiple MBAs, or a PHD, you are wasting your time generally. Now, the route is easy.
TRADE. Start on it in HS. Take shop. Take anything where you work with your hands. Graduate. Pick what trade career you want and go to a trade school for that. Done in 18 months with paid internship. 36-48 months your making 100k. Best benefits. Best Pension Retirement. Retired at 50 or less. That's where I am forcing both kids to go. One wants to be a fireman. The older wants to research all the trades first and decide if any beat Fireman. I hope they both become Fireman. But if both become some tradesman, diff trades even, I will have some Handy Sons for around the house!

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The AI thing is wild. It's definitely eating entry-level white-collar jobs alive right now. Stuff like basic data entry, junior copywriting, simple coding tasks, even some customer service gigs are getting automated fast. I've seen friends' kids graduate with communications or business degrees and end up competing with AI for $15-18/hr gig work that used to be a no-brainer starter job. Wages are absolutely getting suppressed in a lot of those fields.

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I think about that a lot. There have already been a lot of stories written about how AI has disrupted organizations. Upper management is typically in love with the idea of having AI augment work so jobs can be consolidated and people can be laid off. The next few years are going to be interesting and potentially very difficult to navigate.

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Yeah, it's heavy on my mind too. I've seen it happen up close; a couple engineer friends at big tech companies got "restructured" last year when their teams rolled out Copilot-style tools and suddenly one senior guy could do the work of three mid-level ones. Management frames it as "efficiency" and "augmentation," but everyone knows it's really about headcount reduction and boosting margins. The layoffs aren't even subtle anymore; they announce the AI initiative and then quietly cut staff six months later.

I'm incredibly grateful that my role is not likely to be impacted by AI, at least not at the scale as many other positions. So many of my friends and family are not going to be as lucky. A couple of them were laid off early last year and still haven't found work. I'm pretty sure that is only the beginning. I don't even know where they pivot to when every industry has been hit with layoffs for one reason or another, and a most transferable skills people have are to other industries also impacted by AI.

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