My first job was eliminated for “cost reduction” due to AI use - and for the first time in my life I fully understand why I haven’t found a job in 6 months.

I just turned 43 and graduated from College with a degree in business a year ago. I’ve been a angry about the whole situation. I feel like I wasted my money and time for a degree that might be obsolete in a few years.<br><br>I swear I had never felt more useless in my life, especially when I was getting interviewed with kids in their 20’s and 30’s with degrees from 5-15 years ago. It felt like I was just a failed experiment.<br><br>I tried to apply to my previous field which was more labor intensive that required specific skills which I had, but of course that job also required to be physically fit and fully recovered from a previous surgical procedure I had in 2021. <br><br>But I got my first job offer to start working in 3 weeks. I feel like I’m a 17 year old again getting my first job to start working my first job at 18, but now I fully understand that my generation, my friends, my family, my mother (which is fully automated), my friends, my sister that lost his job, my sister that lost her job, my sister that has to learn 3 new languages, my sister that is vulnerable to lose his job. <br><br>I’m 43 and I’m entering a field I never dreamed of, and it is not filled with self satisfaction, it is just a means of survival with a possible new beginning to meet new people, and for the next 8 years I have to make it work, because I don’t want to be 50 years old with angry. I can’t be 50 years old with anger, my goal is to not be 50 years old.<br><br>I’m angry because of the situation and because of the people that don’t care, my mother doesn’t care, she’s used to it, she’s from Honduras and has struggled all of her life, my sister doesn’t care, she used to work as a Customer Service Rep for 17 years and was automated for 3 years, she used to talk about it all day, she used to go 2 hours a day to the gym and it was angry all day for no use, my sister doesn’t care, she used to work as a Customer Service Rep for 8 years and was automated 5 years ago, she used to talk about it all day, she used to go 2 hours a day to the gym and it was angry all day for no use, my sister doesn’t care, she used to work as a Customer Service Rep for 6 years and was automated 2 years ago, she used to talk about it all day, she used to go 2 hours a day to the gym and it was angry all day for no use.<br><br>So I got my job, I’m filled with self satisfaction, I’m on cloud nine.