The Raw Reality Of Losing Your Job To AI

So welcome back to the post AGI economics community. And this was something that I. I'm not sure if I'm going to release this video on YouTube and if I do release this video on YouTube, this is just going to be a completely raw video about the reality of, you know, the AI workforce and the coming stuff. But this is a video that I might just keep in the community. But what this video is is this video is essentially a demonstration on why I created the community and how people might feel if they don't have access to the information inside this community. And this is by far probably the best example I can show you. So this person is Nade Straight. If you remember this Nade Straight person, if you go to his videos, his most popular video was I lost my job because of AI. Now I've spoken about this before in my post AGI economics community. I've spoken about what this person did wrong if they were in the community, the kinds of things that they could have done. Okay, now I've spoken about that bit before. But in this recent video, he posted an update seven hours ago and he basically said that, look, I feel like giving up now. I'm not going to play the entire video here from you, but here are the Cliff Notes. So essentially he basically talks about he lost his job in May due to AI automation. He talks about several different factors. Now I want to go through these really quickly with you and then I want to show you guys why I created this group. Because every single point that he talks about in here is covered by the AI framework. And I'm going to show you guys why. I actually read this every single week to ensure that my career, that my life and my business are completely fine in the future of AI. And this is something that people are not thinking about. Okay, so let's go through some of his points. Okay, so he talked about how he lost his job in May due to automation leading to months of job searching. Okay. And he also said, okay, that he applied to over 100 jobs with minimal success and has been to three second stage interviews in the past six weeks but faced rejection each time. He also talked about how these repeated rejections have have led to significant demoralization. On the verge of giving up in their career in the design creative industry and of course, financial stress. Okay. Savings are running out with an expectation to be out of funds by November despite efforts to generate income through side products. So this person is receiving a lot of different problems now that they've lost their job to AI. Okay, now one of the first things of course is the job loss. Like I said before, if you were paying attention to all of the updates in the community, if you're a graphic designer, you could have easily come over to the AI job impact tracker. You could have easily been paying attention to midjourney and some of the AI tools and seen that certain AI tools here. Like I've said, I've put Dall E, I've put Mid Journey and I've put ideogram AI. I'm going to show you guys why this is a crazy tool. But you would have seen that this is something that it really does impact the graphic design industry and that is an industry that is going to be impacted one of the most with regards to certain things, okay? Another thing is of course the emotional impact, okay, the demoralization. If you're part of a community that is going and focusing on these problems, you're not going to feel as bad because of course you're all in this together. Another thing, okay, financial stress, okay, the financial stress. This is something like I said before, I spoke about in my post age economics community, okay? One of the things I spoke about, okay, I'm just going to try to see if I can find it here. I'm not sure if I'm going to release this, but one of the things I put in the community, okay, I said financial stability check. Assess your financial resilience in case of job displacement. Focus on savings, emergency funds and debt levels. Do you have enough money to cover six months of expenses if you are laid off due to AI AGI? Now I personally think this is going to get a lot worse when AGI gets here. Of course it's going to be new industries, of course there's going to be new things. But I think there's going to be a lot more people that are in the boat that haven't really managed to think about this stuff, okay? It's better to be in the boat early now that set sail and and is already deploying their stuff on the new island, on the new shore. Then to be in the last boat that's just trying to get off the island of people. So you can see here, I've said prioritize saving, okay? When there's certain skills, prioritize saving hold of any large investments, okay? If you're in an industry that is high impact, you need to make sure that you have a lot of savings because the future is uncertain, you don't know how to plan and the only thing you can plan for is that you might not Have a job. Of course it's not a doomerism, it's just realism, okay? You just want to make sure that you are secure for your future. So this was the thing that I said, okay, prioritize saving. And I made this framework months ago. Okay? Now you can see right here he's talking about his savings are running out. If he read the framework and be like, okay, I need to save, this is something that I need to do. Okay? Now, of course, mental health challenges, one of the things that I experienced, I'm not someone who's mentally weak or whatever, but I did start to get this kind of thinking like this industry's going away, this industry is going away and if you have this thing of you're not going to know how you're going to make money, that is a huge stress of problems. I think there was also a study that found that people that own real estate and have money from real estate are like 80% less stressed than the average person. And people that don't have jobs are just way more stressed than the average person if they don't know how they're going to make their money. So you see right here the mental health challenges, this is a real thing. And I ran this framework through many different people and references and stuff. And this is why I put in the framework, I put mindfulness practice, explore mindfulness and stress reduction techniques. These can help you manage anxiety and stay grounded in Regent and of course foster emotional resilience. Okay. And of course, you know, acknowledge that it's normal to have mixed feelings about the future, okay. Because thriving and stressing, okay, this is something that people, you know, unfortunately it's going to happen, okay? If you lose your job suddenly just like that, you know, that's like a real psychological thing, okay. And that's why I put this in my post AGI framework so that, you know, you're not completely worried. Of course, as well, you can see that this person is struggling to transition to new fields due to a resume heavily focused on graphic design and creative roles and, and facing rejection for roles that should be even within reach. Of course, this person is contemplating applying for retail or warehouse jobs as a last resort to ensure financial stability. And of course he's using video creation as a way to cope and he's feeling all of these things for despair. And I put my post agile framework into GPT4 and you can see exactly how this person could have helped themselves. You can see they could have assessed which aspects of their job are most vulnerable, allowing them to proactively develop in skills of less likely to be automated. They could have validated their industry's vulnerability, shifted their area. They could have used tools provided just mindfulness, self compassion techniques. Of course, they could have evaluated their flexibility. They could have had their financial preparedness in checked. They could have had their opportunistic mindset in check. So the point here is to not dog on this guy. But the whole reason I made this community and I made this stuff is so that you are not in this position. Because I know what's going to happen, okay? I know that like the tools that are coming are really good, okay? And they're going to surprise people. It's the reason OpenAI are delaying their products and it's the reason that, you know, like, we have to focus on the stuff. And that's why I created this community because I was like, I need this stuff. Like, I need to make sure that I'm good. Okay? And if I'm doing all of this work, I'm making all these tables and I'm making this framework and I'm writing this down on this. Like I thought, you know what, this could be useful to other people. And here we are now. So this person unfortunately is in that pocket part where they're like, you know, I feel like giving up. I'm gonna write a comment because I hope they don't give up. Of course, you know, you can try and help someone out, but the point here is that this stuff is going to happen, okay? And if you're, you're watching this video, hopefully you are. The raw reality is that yes, AI is going to displace some industries, some are going to be a lot more. And like I said before, let me just show you guys what idgram can do because this is beginner level graphic design, okay? And these, this is like not a popular tool by any means necessary. But I use this tool almost every day and I think once, like imagine all of the companies that currently have graphic designers find out about this tool. So for example, let's say I'm a cafe, I'm a small cafe in London and it's Amy's Cafe. Okay? So I'm going to put, let's put a small cafe art that says Amy's Cafe. It's pink and serves coffee. Okay? So let's just do that, okay? And this is just in a couple of seconds and I literally just thought of that off the top of my head. Okay? So let's do that and let's see how long this takes. Okay? Now remember this is a graphic design tool, right? Remember, also, tools are getting better and better and better, so you have to understand that as well. So the reason I want to show you guys this is because once you see that, okay, this can really impact graphic design in, you know, a crazy way. Okay, so this didn't do the thing, but this could definitely be used as like a, you know, concept art, stuff like that. So let me see if I can do this one more time. Okay? So let me just do a vector design. So I'm going to do vector. Vector art. Vector art that says Amy Cafe. It's pink and is coffee themed. So let me just do this instead. This is like two seconds, but you can already see the kinds of things that people are creating here. The reason I said that this is crazy is because when you think about this, this is like I'm someone who uses these services sometimes, okay? Like, I would use graphic design services. I know people that would use design services. And I showed one of my friends that's just completely out of the AI space. And look at this, guys. Imagine you needed, you know, a logo for, you know, Amy's Cafe or something. You know, people pay 500, $600. Imagine you're a design agency, okay? And someone finds out about this tool, they're going to go ahead and use these kinds of things, okay? I've said it's pink, it's coffee themed. You could do vintage, you could do minimalistic. Let me do minimalistic, okay? And look at the kind of designs we can get. Guys, look at these logo designs, okay? Do you know how long it takes designers to come up with logos like this? Okay. I used to work a little bit in the design field when I was completely confused on what I wanted to do, like eight, 10 years ago. And this stuff takes a lot of time. You've got to do sketching, you know, to do stuff like that. Of course, there's ways to, you know, to speed. Speed up the process and stuff like that. But when you take a look at these graphics, it's not like Canva, where you have to type things in. It's literally just a simple prompt here. And you can see how good this stuff is, guys. Like, I think tools like this are only going to get better. This is this tool. I got to be honest, guys, it's great. But it's not even their best model. Like, they've only just started. And the point I'm trying to make here, guys, is that this is one industry it's going to be coming in so many different other industries. And that's what the community is there for. So. So you can kind of think about how you can move now. I think this person, I don't think they're completely screwed. If you're good at graphic design, you can learn other stuff that's going to be way harder to automate. For example, you know, motion design. This person could definitely learn motion design and they could learn some stuff. I don't know why they haven't tried to do that. Maybe they just don't have the right mindset. I have no idea. But you could definitely learn motion design with after effects and that stuff. But there's ways to maneuver and be in certain areas that are just not as automated. So this video, it was a quick one. It was just a raw reality of, you know, looking forward and seeing what things are there. Of course, like I said before, if this person was maybe a bit more proactive, they wouldn't be in the position there are now. But that's why I'm urging you guys to, you know, if you're like, just stay in the community, understand what's coming. I'm going to be posting every single day. I'm going to be updating different things. And if you have different ways on ways that you can, you know, maneuver your community, earn new ways to make money from AI and all of those things, don't forget to leave them as well. So this is a quick raw video. I'll leave a link to this stuff, but I just wanted to make this video because it's pretty crazy. It is pretty crazy on how quickly this stuff can happen. And remember, okay, tools can be released tomorrow, benchmarks can be smashed, OpenAI can release something. So it's always important to stay proactive even if things don't happen. You have to remember Sora came out of completely nowhere, even when video generation was completely awful. So we really have to stay proactive because when you've got things like Sora that can come out of nowhere, OpenAI could be sitting on a huge gold mine that we don't even know. So I want to keep this video as real and as raw as possible. And I want to still give you guys some hope that, look, it's not all doom and gloom. And of course, not every industry is going to be completely destroyed or replaced or whatever, but the point is that there is a real, real thing that's going on here. And if you're watching this video, you're one of the early ones, okay? So at least you've got that for yourself. So if that's there, hopefully you enjoyed this video, and I'll see you guys in the next one.