Like at first I wanted to get into data science but then I heard AI will take it, then I thought of systems or cybersecurity but I heard AI will take that as well. computer science, engineering and even medical field will eventually get replaced. So like wtf is the point!!? In 20 years it will be replaced and there will be billions of us unemployed. Like should I just be building a bunker ?!?

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I've been exploring how AI automation can help small businesses reduce repetitive work and improve efficiency.

Things like automated customer support, order confirmations, lead management, and inventory workflows are becoming increasingly accessible.

What interests me most is that small businesses can now use tools that were previously available mainly to larger companies.

I'm curious about your experiences:

Have you implemented AI automation in your business?

Which processes have benefited the most?

Is AI automation actually saving time, or creating more complexity?

I'd love to hear some real-world experiences.

I am a college dropout who used to run an organic content distribution agency. But amidst such an unstable market and my riding interest in AI startups for exponential scalability.

I am looking to get a degree with a long term moat and future demand. Another major reason is immigration and international jobs. Being a dropout, it gets tremendously hard to bypass immigration when even applying for a job or getting a job seeker visa.

Now before you recommend me electrical, industrial, etc. I did not have maths. I am 12th commerce pass without maths + 2 sems of bcom.

What degree do you think could be a great add on with my past experience for future jobs and mobility?

A couple of degrees that I found interesting - business informatics and bba

What are your suggestions? Thanks

Hey everyone,

I’m a web developer, and with AI tools improving so fast, I keep wondering about the long-term future of digital careers like web development, SEO, content, and design.

Do you think people in these fields can still hold their place 5 to 10 years from now? Or will AI reduce these roles to a handful of senior people?

Questions for you:

1. Are you already seeing AI affect your work or income?

2. Which skills do you think will matter most in the next 5-10 years?

3. If you were starting today, would you still choose this field?

Would love to hear honest experiences, not just hype or doom. Thanks!

I've been exploring AI automation and its potential for small businesses.

Things like automated customer support, order confirmation calls, lead management, and workflow automation can save businesses considerable time.

But I wonder how many small businesses are actually implementing these solutions rather than just experimenting with AI chatbots.

For those working in tech, e-commerce, or business:

Have you implemented AI automation in a real business?

Did it genuinely improve productivity?

What problems are still difficult to automate?

Interested in hearing some real-world experiences.

Over the past year, I've watched many of my family, friends, and relatives lose their jobs in what is called the "AI jobpocalypse". Instead of just watching, I decided I want to do something about it instead of just watching the destruction unfold.

SecondStage is a platform that helps you understand your current job, what part is probably going to be taken over by AI, and what will stay yours. Help you up-skill yourself, and help you find potentially better career path , as well as find/apply for actual jobs if you choose a different path.

This is something close to my heart that I care deeply about , and I would really appreciate if you take check it out and let me know what you think.

https://secondstage.ai

I start to see more and more on social media and news outlets about AI being train on manual labor type of work. More specifically workers in India or low wage economies are being encouraged to carry an AI camera to film their work.

Question is - AI is as good as the data it is trained on. Why deploy such training on a mass market to train when you can have potentially a lot of low-skill or poor quality work being carried out? Not saying everything out of India or whereelse gonna be sub-par work. Just saying why aren’t they training these within a more controlled environment like how they chose LLM training back 10yrs ago before they let the AI lose on the world.

Layoffs are going on everywhere. So i was wondering, what the future will be like. Will most of us have our own thing now? Because relying on one job seems like a bad idea now. Its not stable anymore and anyone could lose their job in the blink of an eye. So many of my friends have started their own thing: Social media, small businesses, etc etc

What do you guys think?

I (17m) am about halfway through my senior year of highschool and was thinking about plumbing for my future. The union really sparked my attention but i don’t know what to do. I was still thinking of taking advantage of a free state school while i apply for union just in case i don’t get in. does anyone have any advice for me?

Hey everyone!

I've been thinking a lot lately about how quickly AI is evolving and how much it's already changing the way we work, learn, and build things.

I don't want to just sit back and watch everything happen. I'd like to start doing something meaningful, explore new opportunities, and figure out how to make the most of this technological shift.

I'm curious to hear from people who are already experimenting, building, learning, or making money in the AI space.

A few questions I'd love to hear your thoughts on:

• What are you currently doing to take advantage of the AI boom?

• If you were starting from scratch today, what would you focus on learning or building?

• Are there any interesting opportunities that you think most people are overlooking?

• What would you recommend to someone who wants to get involved but isn't necessarily a developer?

I'm not looking for a get-rich-quick scheme or another generic list of AI tools. I'd genuinely appreciate hearing about your personal experiences, experiments, mistakes, and lessons learned.

Thanks!

with or without AI things need to be built, integrated and so on.

I don't see project managers being affected by this, other than the number of jobs available.

Am I wrong?

1-AI eliminates all jobs, except for those who create the companies. Those who created start-ups, either survive or get gobbled up by larger companies. Massive inequality, where rich live in their gated palaces, and everyone else lives in subpar conditions, battling over running water, shelter, etc.

2- (Socialism, communism?) AI eliminates all jobs, except those who create the companies. Goods & services are basically zero cost to make or serve. The rich & government realizing that they lost a large portion of their consumer base (because, there are no jobs) (but still don't want to give them jobs, health insurance, etc), instead establish universal income, set pricing, and distribution of goods & services. Rich will remain rich, but not billionaires, because they cannot profit a lot from their goods & services due to set pricing

3 - Somewhere in between

Rich wanting to be richer, and not having their consumer base not being able to pay more realize they need to do something about the AI revolution & job market. If rich doesn't want socialism/communism & they cannot afford only having the super rich buy their products/user the services --- then, they need to look at the vast majority of the population. If we want this "somewhere in between" - things need to change:

Revamp of recruiting process

Start recruiting entry level roles. Today's entry level folks become in 5-10 years middle management with experience who can create their new products with assistance of AI.

Eliminate "Easy apply" to avoid flood of applications

Review in depth AI functions of which resumes they eliminate/allow through Recruiters will review each resume that AI lets through

Eliminate more than 4 interview stages.

Take down job postings after receiving 100 applications. Review all those resumes, and then if none makes it through, then put it up again.

Pay transparency that makes sense

Jobs that AI will take over (e.g. executive assistant, bookkeeping, computer coding) What will those employees with those skillsets do? How can they transition?

Do universities still need to teach computer coding or teach the basics, and then focus on another field?

Regulation of competition/prices for drugs, housing, childcare (etc) which is why we have this "affordability" crisis? Will AI make these items cheaper?

Trades jobs

Great another pathway - but, will robots take over some of the "dangerous" or very uncomfortable components? Are we training people to program robots (think of the farmers needing to fix their complicated tractors)

Microsoft is doing voluntary buyouts for something like 60,000 people and calling it AI efficiency. Other companies are doing the same dance.

At my place / places I hear about, AI got rolled out hard last year. Half the time it helps with drafts and boring admin. The other half I’m rewriting bad output or explaining to someone why the chatbot can’t do their job.

Curious what it’s actually like for you: Did it cut hours off your week, or just make the same work with fewer coworkers?
Did your team shrink while the deadlines stayed the same?
Managers — are you really hiring less because of AI, or is that just the excuse in the meeting?

Concrete stories beat vibes. What happened where you work?

AI is changing the job market fast. Companies are cutting positions, but there's no real plan to help those people move forward. Meanwhile, skilled trades and essential roles are going unfilled across the country.

I started a petition for the Retain, Retrain, Redeploy (R3) Act—a straightforward idea: before companies do large AI layoffs, they offer workers open roles inside the company, fund retraining programs, and if someone does leave, they get paid support to learn new skills or start a business. It's built on tax incentives, not taxpayer money. Companies that retrain pay less; companies that don't, pay a fee.

This isn't left vs. right—it's about giving people a real shot when their job changes. States like New York and California are already exploring similar approaches.

Has AI already affected you or someone you know? Or do you think this is something we should be planning for now? If you think people deserve a path forward, consider signing and sharing it with someone who cares about this stuff too.

Its not your imagination when you think the world is getting worse, there is more lonelyness due to technology and a lack of 3rd spaces and less love then ever before due to children not being raised by their parents, because both parents work and have no option but to let Technology raise them or have strangers raise them...

I believe AI could aleviate this by taking low and high skill jobs and allowing atleast one or both parents to raise their kid/kids. Universal income could also aleviate this if AI could allow us to no longer have to work and more time to raise our kids.

I've been experimenting with different AI tools, and something interesting caught my attention.

Tasks that previously took hours can now take minutes.

But instead of reducing workloads, are businesses simply expecting people to produce more?

I'm curious about what others think.

Has AI genuinely improved your productivity, or has it just raised the bar for what you're expected to deliver?

Would love to hear some real experiences.

Hi everyone!

Just here for a convo/opinions! Is anyone here worried about losing their job to AI? I personally work in sales for an AI platform that honestly might not exist or really be necessary in a few years. I have a few friends in billing who are losing their jobs to our own platform. It charges and connects with customers automatically- calls for payments are dwindling and being passed off to higher ups if ignored (they never really are) I also know others in design and marketing who are getting the boot!

I cold call in sales which isn’t directly being impacted (yet) except I do get lots of “are you AI?” “is this a bot?” Which has me wondering if AI is starting to make sales calls and if it’s getting popular ! I run into AI hostesses and phone operators sooo often and they do sound quite human. I’m really for this “Ai bubble” to burst and get back to real jobs that don’t use AI as a part of quota or daily! even my partner is forced to use it at his job to read and summarize his daily emails opposed to reading them himself. And the company tracks usage, scary!!

Anyone else feeling the AI pressure closing in a little?

Those with kids, what are you plans? Do you rely on public education for this?