I had to quit my job last year both for health reasons and because we decided to put our daughter in online school.
I was a video editor before all of this. I was already unable to find a job in my field for a few years because everyone marketing person’s boss told them to download a free editing app and just shoot it all on their iPhone. Doesn’t matter if it sucks, it’s cheaper. And by the time I’m back on the job market, they’ll use AI to do it. And it will still suck compared to what I can do, but they won’t care because it’s cheaper.
I’m turning 48 next month. I feel like I’m basically doomed to work shit jobs that I hate until I die.
It’s exactly the same thing in the sense that a slingshot and nuclear bomb are the same thing. That is to say, the degree is so extreme that they might as well be unrelated.
I haven’t heard anyone propose that digital cameras are an existential threat to humans. This is no mere horse and buggy problem. If we develop generally intelligent AI it’s game over for our capitalist global economy.
capitalism was. tech is just tech.
AI can be used to speed us up, so instead of having free time we get 1 person shoddily doing the work of a few.
That’s the thing about all these articles on how well the job market is doing, while simultaneously there are tons of articles on layoffs and bankruptcies that they never acknowledge that all - the new jobs always feel like they are in gig and crap work.
I can’t say I had any luck on there but someone with your skills may do well on Freelancer if you’ve got a portfolio of your work.