I think about this often in the age of ai as my job is online only and remote, in that my clients are in different places.
I like to think about this as I have changed life paths many times. Now, in my case, since I'm not in my home country, my options are limited; local jobs here already pay less than what I make and would involve massive commute times, so there's literally no point, the lifestyle downgrade would be astronomical.
But if I were in the UK, I couldnt do what i do and I think I would do a training course to be a boiler engineer, heat pump fitter, maybe even something related to wind farms, not because I think these are great sources of energy etc, but becuase the gov is foisting it on people anyway, and it's not something that will be outsourced to another country or ai, at least any time soon.
Not very romantic, but that's what I would do.
Do any of you stackers mull over a new path to ai/future-proof yourselves?
But... a 360-degree change leave me in the same place...
Hahah didn't even think about that
maybe you attempt the 180 but it ends in a 360 , right back at the start lol
i should really change the title of the post, but stuck with it now
Great question.. think about it a lot, don't have any good answers.
The other stuff I'm good at/enjoy are much more seasonal and not exactly full-time, cushy gigs
it's a hard one for sure, i used to quite like doing translation work back in the day, could sit there and do it in my own time, and people valued the result, but like many things, the pie is smaller.
Scott Adams used to say the key was about combining all the things a person is good at into one to have something unique, which makes sense, i havnt thought of a way to do something like that with my skill deck tho