I got laid off for AI and it was one of the best things to ever happen to me.

For context: Around a month ago, I had posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1s3or21/comment/ockmldb/ right after getting laid off from my design job.

As you can tell, I was really heated. I logged off immediately and literally only used reddit once to ask a question about linguistics.

Thankfully, I had savings. I'm very thankful and I'm only sharing this to give you a new perspective if you're in the same boat, and I know I'm very lucky to have had savings and that, if you're in a more expensive country, this isn't very sustainable.

In the one month I got laid off:

- I realized I was too young to work a dead-end job. The work was repetitive

- Focused more on learning Spanish (a language I wanted for my Master's Degree)

- Redid a lot of my portfolio works

- Took design courses

- Read design books

- Spent more time with my family & boyfriend (I did not get the chance to very often because my job was very demanding despite being remote)

- Got a mentor

- Learned how to utilize AI as much as I could while maintaining my creative freedom

It was a blessing in disguise, and, after taking courses and also familiarizing myself more & more with AI, I figured out that there's NO WAY this is actually gonna be able to create something to replace skilled designers. For two reasons:

1) It takes so much effort to create something that does not look awful

2) Clients will have to actually communicate what they want

If anyone's in the same boat, I wish you all the best and I hope this gives you another perspective on the situation!