A field guide for working people

AI is changing work.
Your move starts here.

No doom. No denial. A practical, evidence-backed plan to understand your risk, build the skills employers need, and become harder to replace.

100
job titles mapped
30 days
to a concrete plan
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CAREER FILE
STATUS: IN YOUR HANDS
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PLAN

“The danger isn't that AI exists. The danger is standing still while it arrives.”

What changes after page one

Turn uncertainty into a work plan.

ASSESS

Know where you stand

Seven straight questions reveal whether AI is likely to reshape your role—and which parts of your work are exposed first.

ADAPT

Move toward leverage

Separate automatable tasks from the judgment, trust, and context that make you valuable. Then use AI on the first group.

PROVE

Make your value visible

Build small artifacts that show saved time, better decisions, clearer processes, and real business results.

A worker building a practical AI career plan

The 30-day move

Don't become “an AI person.” Become the person who uses AI best at what you already know.

  • Audit your week by task, not title
  • Choose one useful AI tool
  • Create one before-and-after work sample
  • Share the win in the language of time or money
FROM THE OPENING CHAPTERREAD THIS IF YOU'RE WORRIED

“Let's start with the picture in your head.

It's a cardboard box. The kind they hand you on your way out—just big enough for a coffee mug, a framed photo, a sad little desk plant, and whatever dignity you can fit on top.

I want to make you a promise right now, on page one: that box is not your future. Not if you read this book and do a few simple things.”

The book continues with sourced labor data, a 100-role exposure map, transition paths, and a first-30-days checklist.

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Lee Felican Jr.

About the author

Lee Felican Jr.

Lee is a technology leader, builder, and Director of AI who has spent nearly three decades working across enterprise technology. He writes for people who want AI explained plainly—and turned into something useful.

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