AI is not just a tool, look at it as a new business partner. To get the most benefit from it, focus on hybrid skills: if you’re a designer, use Midjourney to prototype 10x faster, then sell your works who can’t polish AI output. Writers? Become an "AI whisperer", train custom GPTs for brands to crank out on-brand drafts, then charge premium for your final human edit. Developers? Cash in by building hyper-niche micro-SaaS tools solving painful workflows (e.g., auto-generating Shopify product videos with ElevenLabs + Pika).
These are just a few ideas you can go for to make it works. BTW, AI handles volume; you handle strategy, emotion, and quality control. Low floor, high ceiling, if you leverage instead of replace.