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Anon364484 · 29 Sep 2025
Is anyone else feeling anxious about keeping their job? Maybe I should get off the internet but I keep reading about AI taking jobs and companies laying people off and as someone who lives pay check to pay check I can’t help but feel like I’m one step away from redundancy and moving back with my parents. How are you all dealing with the uncertainty of the job market and the economy in general?
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Accounts Administrator
There is good and bad with AI. AI needs people to create, train and oversee the use of it and some types of roles can only be done by people or mostly by people. My job was computer based so will be mostly phased out due to AI, but I knew it was coming some time ago. I retrained in something else in the evenings and once qualified I found another job.
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Living by the sea · 12d ago
Yeah it's kind of hard to avoid news about AI and it's a direct threat in my industry too. But I take a bit of heart from the stories about employers who went all in on AI and then had to backtrack when it made a mess of things.
It helps me to talk up the things we do that AI can't. Stuff that needs critical thinking, judgement and an understanding of what could go wrong...Highlighting the value in those things hopefully gives employers something to think about before they go all in on AI.
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