I'm not being paid enough to rationalize not using AI and it makes me feel like a terrible person
I'm in marketing (a field I swore I'd never enter oops) and layoffs have been unkind to me. Most recent gap I went almost 3 years with no work, and despite my senior level I'm being offered max $30/hr for copy that requires a ton of legal review. I used to make $60/hr.
I finally landed a 6 month role at 15 hours a week. I'm being told I need to complete things 10x faster and for half the pay and I simply cannot rationalize doing it the way I used to.
I'm still spending the billed time on the project, to be clear. I'm not having AI create the content for me, but it has been holding my hand as I reorient myself and come to terms with the fact that for one brief year I made $100k before the AI boom.
It's only been 2 weeks, hopefully this is temporary. I just want to run away to the woods and write poetry or something.
Posted Apr 28, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC · locked