🤖Is AI really coming for your job?
Parts of it, for sure.
I had coffee☕ this week with a recruiter who splits her time between the U.S. and Spain (more on that my future "Mobile CPA" lifestyle in a future post.) During my iced americano frenzy (should out to Couve Coffee) she spilled some recruiting tea.
Her office used to run 20 to 30 people. They're now down to 9.
Nobody got fired. No crazy layoffs. No robot uprising. Just normal boring-ass 🤷attrition.
But guess what? Every time someone quit who did repetitive, mind-numbing work, they asked a better question:
Q: Do we actually need to replace this person, or just the process?
A: The Process⚙️
Nine people. Same output as 20+. That's not a rounding error, that's a restructuring disguised as turnover. So is AI coming for your job?🤔
Probably not your entire job. But the parts of it that a moderately motivated intern could do on autopilot? Those be gone. You just haven't gotten the memo yet.📬
But Romeo, what did she say about companies hiring?
2025 was a rough year for hiring. 😬 2026 is thawing (but don't get too comfortable, remember they still charge for parking on the strip.)
If you're job hunting right now, she had three things to say:
📄 Tailor your resume to every single job.
↳ Companies are running applications through AI before a human ever blinks at them.
↳ Generic resumes are getting rejected by an algorithm. So, yours better stand out.
🎯 Be specialized and good at what you do.
↳ The generalist era is quietly closing up shop.
↳ The market is paying for depth, not breadth.
↳ In other words, what can you do, that an AI can't?
🤖 Know how to use AI.
↳ Not "I've heard of ChatGPT" or "I use ChatGPT for my therapy"
↳ Actually know how to use it.
↳ Because the person who gets your dream job probably already does.
So, is AI coming for your job? 🤔
Not your whole job. But the parts of it that a moderately motivated intern used to do. You just haven't gotten the memo yet. 📬
The people who survive this aren't the ones who know the most. 🧠 They're the ones who are nibble, great at what they do, and know how to use the AI tools that do the rest.
Because guess what? That's where the market is going, whether you like it or not.