All At Once
You know when you click on an item to a shopping cart and it doesn’t load so you press it a bunch more times and then when if finally loads you have 100 items in the cart, that’s what I feel I just did. I have been looking for a job and all of a sudden everyone decides to get back at me in the same week. You know the saying when it rains, it pours. Well right now it’s pouring, and although a bit overwhelming, it is also exciting.
I guess my skills are not going unnoticed, it really helps when there is someone legitimizing the work you do. I got accepted into the adobe apprenticeship program, which is apparently very selective, especially in our current economy. So it feels like those hours of refining projects, and actually doing work is starting to pay off, definitely not completely paid off, I got too much student loans.
Well anyways I think that this is kind of a turning point, a point in which my actions will accelerate, and my visions will become more concrete, no longer floating in the ether of my mind, or scribbled down thoughts of grandeur. I feel I have been in waiting, like a jungle cat waits in the shadows, only to pounce on its lunch, and man am I starving.
So this comes after looking for a job for the past 7 months. Searching in the worst job hunting conditions since the pandemic is anything but encouraging. The only that kept me from giving up is knowing that it wasn’t just me, that I am not alone.
I am hopeful in finding a career path. With AI taking over the business, there is much uncertainty that jobs will exist at all. There are predictions that the future unemployment rate as high as 30% for recent college graduates. As jobs shift from human to ai. Which all in all is not a bad thing, if there were some safety net, but there’s nothing in place. In America if you aren’t working there isn’t much to hold you up.
As I take this path, the amount of entanglement with AI is becoming almost imperceivable, almost like taking a breath. Instead of asking someone for help, I used to search forums, now I ask an LLM. When working on a project I find myself exporting my creativity to prediction models. It is almost no longer a novelty, but a reality.