"What if the thing I've been good at for 15 years stops mattering?"
It's not the public conversation about AI, that's about productivity, jobs lost in aggregate, headlines. The private conversation is quieter and harder.
It's the executive who built her career on operational excellence wondering if process work she's been compensated for is becoming a $20/month software feature.
It's the senior marketer realising the campaign work that took her team a week is now produced in a Saturday afternoon by a single person with the right tools.
It's the consultant whose deliverables, frameworks, slides, analysis, are now generated faster than they're consumed.
The fear isn't irrational. The market IS re-pricing some functions. But the leap from "this is changing" to "I'm done" skips over the part where careers usually evolve through changes like this, they don't end at them.
If you're carrying this quietly: name it. The fear doesn't go away by being denied. It moves when it becomes a plan.
— Dr. Hosney Adel