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How to Invest in Career Development in the Age of AI Without Losing Yourself
The future of work demands your creativity even if you’re in a conventional career.
Since I started practicing my profession as an accountant, I’ve always been careful not to tell people about my love for writing. I don’t want them to associate my creative inclination with my knack for crunching numbers.
After all, nobody ever wants a “creative” accountant. A conventional accountant should be dry, structured, and the total opposite of “artistic”.
Little did I know that the COVID-19 pandemic will change all that. I found back my voice and started bridging my writing to my profession. Writing became a means of survival. After reading Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, I knew that I was in the right direction.
I should stop treating my “creativity” as a bane but rather, use it to benefit my profession. Here’s why.
Artificial intelligence (AI) machines will be part of a company’s board of directors by 2026. People expect it to happen based on a World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society survey.
That’s five years away.
As crazy as it sounds, a future wherein you pit your skills against an AI is not far-fetched. A whole new mindset, one that empowers creativity and empathic thinking, can be your lifeline in a future corporate world that’s constantly shifting and adapting to the demands of technology.
Here’s how you can invest in your career development in the age of AI without losing yourself. First, you need to spill your closeted creativity even if you’re in a conventional career. In the present, you need to crush the non-creative barriers, whack the fixed mentality, and acquire a whole new mindset, all without losing your professional flair.
Conventional or creative — where do you belong?
“I define the core of the Creative Class to include people in science and engineering, architecture and design, education, arts, music, and entertainment, whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and/or new creative content. Around the core, the Creative Class also includes a broader group of…
