Why AI Won’t Take My Job
Anish Ranjan
Freelance Video Editor & Visual Storyteller | Personal growth and Marketing enthusiast
Are you worried AI might replace your job?
I’m not.
Here’s why:
I understand what AI can and cannot do — and its limitations are exactly why it won’t replace me.
If you’re afraid and don’t know what to do, read this article to find out:
You might have heard this line from many people:
AI cannot take your job, but the person using AI can take your job.
Let’s understand why AI can’t take your job.
Weakness of AI
Let’s suppose you’re a marketer who wants to run ads on social media.
You need a design for an ad campaign, but you don’t know graphic design.
So, you find an AI tool to design a graphic for your ad campaign.
But you don’t know the design terminology you should use to generate a better design.
Still, you provide all the campaign information and requirements to AI and ask it for a suitable design.
AI generates a design.
Now, how do you know that the design will work well for your ad campaign?
And if it doesn’t, you’ll face a loss.
To get a design that works well, you still need a graphic design expert.
We can’t blindly trust AI because it cannot understand your goals and situation as well as a human being can.
A person who uses AI can take your job.
For that ad campaign, you hire two expert designers:
To research design ideas, Tanmay uses AI tools and quickly finds perfect concepts.
Samay, on the other hand, spends a lot of time researching, finding inspiration, and coming up with a design idea.
To gather the right assets, Tanmay uses AI tools to generate them, while Samay takes much longer to find the perfect assets manually.
As a result, Tanmay creates a suitable design in one day, while Samay takes three days for an equally impressive design.
Both designs are great, but Tanmay gets the job because everyone values high-quality work completed in less time.
If we don’t want to fall behind and lose our jobs, we need to do two things:
1. Partner with AI tools.
To sustain our jobs in the future,
We must stay relevant to the market.
The market is rapidly changing and evolving, and right now, it’s undergoing a massive transformation due to AI tools.
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If we want to remain relevant, efficient, and faster, we must integrate AI tools into our workflow.
Here’s how you can do it:
This is how I learned to use AI tools in my workflow.
However, I realized that only using AI tools wasn’t enough to secure my job.
That’s when I figured out the next step.
2. Being Good at One Skill Won’t Work in 2025
Companies hire employees to perform jobs, but we often focus on learning individual skills.
Now you might think “Yes, I focus on skills because I need skills to do the job”.
And yes, we need skills to do the job.
But we never focus on “What are the skills we need to do a job?”
For example:
However, every job requires a combination of skills:
Skills Required for a Video Editing Job
Most people focus only on improving their video editing skills and neglect the others.
Skills Required for a Web Development Job
Similarly, web developers often focus only on technical skills, ignoring the rest.
This is how I’m learning content creation:
Skills Required for a Content Creation Job
I can’t focus on everything at once, but I’m aware of the skills I need to learn to grow in my job.
You should also focus on improving each skill one at a time.
While others focus on individual skills, if you focus on being job-ready, no one will be able to replace you.
Figure out the job you want, create a list of required skills, and focus on each one.
Conclusion
These are the two things I do to ensure that neither AI nor a person using AI can replace me:
The job market is becoming unbearable for mediocrity, so you need to become extraordinary.
All the best to us on this journey.
Anish xx