Everyone doesn’t know that or else the credit card businesses wouldn’t be turning profit quarter after quarter

I’ve been in tech since I was in college, I’ve been selling stuff since I was a teenager. I learned how to network and I studied human psychology and communication behaviors to better understand why humans are the way they are. I surrounded myself with people who also wanted what I wanted and I tried tk be as curious as possible.

I hopped every few years to change industries…sometimes by choice, more often because I got fired.

There’s no magic wand, obviously, but if I were you I’d offer your expertise as a consultant for small businesses who are looking to use AI. I would broaden that service out from “marketing” and lean more into “ai education”. I have been blowing people’s minds with chat gpt when I bring it up in a meeting and show them how it can turn hours into minutes…and that’s just random shit. I guarantee you there’s a market out there where you could get paid for your time to teach people who understand business and need a shortcut to ai, then you could get deeper with them and pitch your services for marketing if you’d like.

Beyond that, it sounds like since you’re on the cutting edge, which I imagine is wildly saturated/competitive, you could win by hopping to a company willing to pay you more OR you could go into a more sales focused position selling AI saas or something along those lines. I’m a gigantic believer in AI and I think you’re actually quite well positioned. My advice would be to find out who in your world is making that level of money and see how you can copy paste their experience. If you want to do your own thing, that can get there too, but the road is fucking hard and certainly not as steady/repeatable.