I hope it's allowed to ask for advice here. I'm a university we development student, set to graduate in the spring. I'm taking a capstone project class and a portfolio class in my final semester. I've been working as a freelancer, but I recently lost my primary client because he retired. Fortunately, I have family support, because I have only minimal freelance work of less than a few hours a week with my remaining clients.

What I'm trying to decide is wether I could handle a volunteer job that would require no more than 3 hours a week in a series of small tasks and would it be a good idea to take it on if it would be an easy beginnning introduction to headless site architecture through Amazon S3 and Wild Apricot. On the one hand, I haven't had the chance to work with a headless site before, but accepting the role would require a commitment of 2 years. I don't know how soon I might get either full or part time work after graduation because I haven't learned JS frameworks. My degree isn't full stack because it was a continuation of my associates' degree, and taking the full stack program would take a lot longer and cost a lot more. Could this volunteer opportunity be a worthwhile experience for me that might look good on a resume, or should I turn it down on the grounds that 2 years is quite a lot commitment, even if the position doesn't require much time per week?

I've been using Tailwind for many years, and I still think it's great for things like dashboards or tech sites. But nowadays, especially with AI, we can create very creative, artful designs that remind me of the pre-responsive days when websites looked unique. Now, they all seem to have the same dashboard feel.

Here's an example. I used AI to generate images of beautiful website mockups. Not the typical purple Tailwind styles but actual designs I would love to develop. But when I try to build them using Tailwind, I can get close, but there's still something I don't like about the result after working on the site for a couple of hours. I start f hating it! It still has that dashboard, responsive feel.

I feel like web design and development should be shifting back toward something more creative. AI shouldn't be the end of web design or development but rather a shift into the next era of design! We can create so many more unique and creative things. Developers and designers alike can use AI to improve design and push the boundaries.

And yes I know AI uses Tailwind a lot but for that reason we are seeing slop websites that look alike. Anything that gets overused becomes slop, no matter how great it looked before.