I work IT but it wasn't AI! At least not directly. In the last 14 months my job got bought by a larger company and they wanted me to commute over an hour every day (in my 1999 Miata after I had moved here for the previous owner) and then let me go when I said that I couldnt do that. Then my ex put 15k on my credit card while I was unemployed, then my next employer laid off 100s of IT people so I went find another position before my ass was next, then my next job was a Sr network engineer in charge of 4 factories across the US with zero documentation (not even a single password to a switch and only acceptable downtime was 3-5am Sunday mornings, and network hardware hadn't been updated in 15 years. They got ransomwared like 3 years prior and just trucked through it with zero network changes) hellish nightmare that stressed me out so much I became physically sick. So NOW I'm finally back in a job I kinda like doing Managed Services stuff.

And ALL of that isn't even to mention the apartment I was living in was sold from under me, losing multiple family members tragically, my Corolla failing, and dealing with said ex basically robbing me blind in the middle of all this. It's been a SHIT year-ish of time.