The Safe Job Doesn't Exist Anymore

2025-11-29 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Work and career · mode: Answering questions · tags: AI

Answering a viewer pressed by parents towards a safe job, Ali says parents' security strategies worked from the 1950s to the 1980s but not in the 2020s, and that working for yourself through a lifestyle business is a better path to security than relying on an employer.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Parents and the safe job; work for someone else or for yourself; a lifestyle business as the better path to security

• ★★★ Parents optimise for job security and still think security means a safe job, Ali says, but their strategies for security worked from the 1950s to the 1980s and do not work in the 2020s. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Accountancy used to be a safe job, Ali says, but in the world of AI he would not want his own child to train as an accountant for the sake of security. — 00:00:00
• ★★ If you work for someone else, Ali advises finding a job that lets you do things you find interesting; people on his team tell him they enjoy their social-media jobs as cool, flexible and in a small team. — 00:00:29
• ★★ For complete control, freedom, flexibility, fulfilment and financial security, Ali says, work for yourself by starting a lifestyle business: one that facilitates the lifestyle you want rather than growth at all costs. — 00:00:58 · lifestyle business
• ★★★ To work for yourself in a lifestyle business, Ali says, you need three sets of skills, all learnable: productivity skills (setting goals, focus, consistency), business skills (product, sales, marketing, operations, finance) and craft skills, which add value to others, since all payment is in exchange for adding value. — 00:00:58 · lifestyle business
• ★★★ Ali thinks working for yourself is a better path to security than relying purely on working for someone else. — 00:01:27

Threads in this video

• refine · What should you do when your parents want a different life for you? — Parents optimise for job security and still think security means a safe job, Ali says, but their strategies for security worked from the 1950s to the 1980s and do not work in the 2020s. (00:00:00)
• refine · How do you choose a career? — Ali thinks working for yourself is a better path to security than relying purely on working for someone else. (00:01:27)

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