In October 2026, I decided to finally walk away from a platform that paid me $300k+ in 2 years, with a $500 bank balance, because of the rate at which AI is taking over in my industry.

When it comes to the AI + Jobs conversation, I believe you would belong to one of these three groups:

- The Adapters
- The Resisters
- The Observers

While an important question to ask here is where you think you belong, I also believe having in-depth knowledge about the impact AI is going to have in the years to come is just as important.

We all heard that AI was here to make us more efficient, but most of you missed the details because making us efficient means taking over the repetitive jobs we do so that we can have our time back to work in the new economy.

The new economy is a set of AI-powered, optimised or new industries that would require human intuition, empathy and emotional intelligence. That is what I was thinking about when I made the decision to quit.

Because, looking back at the dot-c…