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Was reading a piece about the white-collar bloodbath - this part made me wince:

Tobi Lutke, founder of Shopify, the $145 billion ecommerce giant, told his 8,100 employees last month that to hire anyone new, managers must clear a new hurdle: prove that a bot can’t do it. And for those already at the company, he ordered them to get good with AI - or else.

“I don’t think it is feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying AI in your craft. You are welcome to try, but I want to be honest I cannot see this working out today, and definitely not tomorrow,” he added. “Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure. If you’re not climbing, you’re sliding.”
This seems pretty nuts to me given where we’re up to with AI. Can AI really do, say, project management or run a marketing plan or spearhead difficult conversations in HR?

Full disclosure: last time I applied for jobs it drove me pretty crazy. Stopped showering or seeing friends and just holed myself up in my apartment applying for jobs for about 20 days until a friend staged an intervention haha.  

This time is going to be different! My plan is to attack this from a few different angles.

As per my boyfriend: “Don’t bother applying, try and meet as many new people as possible”
Essentially network! This is how he scored his last job. I’ve sent out emails to professional contacts and I’ve lined up a few different coffees. My plan is to at the end of this ask “Who else do you think might be interesting for me to speak to?”, generating a forever-loop of meeting new people in my field.

Deploying tech this time round: filling out the same forms over and over drives me low-level insane, so going to use the job application assistant on Zippia to speed things up in terms of form filling and generating first drafts of cover letters (which I’d then tweak based on researching each company). 

Find bridge employment: I used to freelance so I’m planning on getting in touch with old clients and seeing if anyone needs support. Doesn’t need to be a forever job, just something to keep me going. Also planning on doing low-wage work for a bit just so I’m not going crazy just applying ie dog walking, babysitting.

Besides this, I'm probably going to download a few different TV shows I’ve been meaning to get round to for forever…