Existential Crisis: There Won't Be Much of a Market for Your Brilliant Mind

 "I couldn't even get one of those home-care assignments, helping the elderly with daily tasks."

That's what a client with advanced degrees blurted out during a tarot reading session. What was obvious to me is they had put the value on their expensively trained cognitive ability, not fundamental human traits such as intuitive listening, empathy, patience and lifting moods. 

Right now, as AI takes over more and more complex knowledge work, there's a shrinking market for individual brilliance. In a seminal essay in Bloomberg this weekend, Azeem Azhar poses this question for both professionals and organizations: 

"What will you do when intelligence itself is suddenly ubiquitous and practically free?"

AI is plenty smart and getting smarter all the time.

Azhar points out that work as we have known it had been organized and rewarded based on the assumption that the number of authentically brilliant minds is limited. Pre-AI employers competed aggressively to hire, retain and motivate those supposed geniuses. What's replacing that pattern is only requiring one brilliant mind to make the decisions on how to implement AI. 

That's already happening in the once-tradition-bound law firm sector. In recent transformational moves chair of Paul Weiss Brad Karp has been incorporating AI in practices throughout the firm. He even went on record in speculating that some actual lawyer jobs could be eliminated. In terms of leadership/management that law firm only needs one brilliant mind. That's Karp's. The worker bee stars will soon enough be assisted with "AI collaborators." Fewer of them could also be needed. 

So, it's not futuristic to manifest what the "AI collaborators in business" can achieve in every aspect of generating profit. That includes strategy, governance, financial reporting, compliance, development of new services/products, sales, people management and public relations.

Obviously, skills which have not much to do with high intelligence are taking on value. Those range from the capacity to engage another human being to doing what cognitive can't such as clearing the town of garbage or welding parts on bridges to, yes, caring for the elderly.


On that list of skills in demand also is the raw clarity tarot readers like myself provide. Way back in 2021, The New York Times saluted our ability to bring about basic self-awareness. 

Here's an example. In a tarot session you can relax enough to take an audit of who you were before you piled on the academic education and the professional training to perform high-level knowledge work. Next, we mystics open you up to shift to the persona or branding which will attract the jobs and assignments that are available. 

Meanwhile clients who are adjusting to the mutating law of supply and demand ask me: Should their children invest the time and money in a college education?

I point out the cultural lag in most societies. In much of America, there continues to exist a caste system: Those not formally educated are at the bottom socially. That lack comes across in everything from speech patterns to personal interests. I recommend a compromise: Stick with the most affordable version of the BA/BS. 

If you're struggling to enter the new world order of employment, I'm here for you. Free confidential consultation. Connect with Jane Genova (phone/text 203-468-8579, janegenova374@gmail.com)


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