Making progress at work

When I first started my postdoc, there was a period of a few months when I thought I didn’t have what it takes to do the job. That has completely changed with the adoption of AI into my workflow. I can definitely do the job with confidence, but do I want to? Do I want to live a life where I have all the material comforts that I need: a life where I can afford vacations and fancy dinners and nights out on the town in different exotic locations? A life without art. That’s the really tough question isn’t it? I still think about what this new development means for my desire to transition into architecture and be a creative, and, honestly, I’m a little scared. 

I have this alternative idea that if I don’t go to architecture school, my creative pursuit would be writing. I love language, but I have never been very good with it. My language skills are surely something that I’ve developed slowly as a first-generation immigrant to an English-speaking country. It’s a skill that has taken some conscious effort for me to hone to a high level. I don’t really know how I feel about becoming a professional writer. I’m scared I won’t have what it takes, and I worry it wouldn’t be as fulfilling as a life in architecture, which I perceive as my true calling and passion, where my skill lies. It’s all sort of up in the air at the moment, and I don’t know how I feel about it all. 

Overall, I’m happy that I’ve finally settled into my work using AI, which I’ve come to really see as a gift to humanity. No longer are human beings bogged down to do the mundane task of learning to script computer languages: we can now focus our efforts on real languages and the thinking that goes along with learning them, instead of just moving numbers and variables mindlessly on the screen, or spending hours and hours debugging lines of code over a single stupid syntax error–like trying to find a needle in the haystack. There’s no longer any need for that thanks to AI. Hours of work have been reduced to seconds. All in all, I’m optimistic about the future.