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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I'd encourage them to research what career they could develop from that major. I've been seeing more and more jobs seeking those with journalism and English degrees, which surprised me.

For example, technical writer, various communications professionals, digital marketers/copywriters.

B2B copywriters can earn a lot.

One of the most successful people I know from college was a theatre major earning well over $200K in communications. A personality and network will do a lot to help. This person has a way with people. 
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Generative AI says hi [/quote]

NP. I write and edit blogs and web materials. Guess what? Companies are turning to AI and then turning right back to humans to edit AI-generated materials because those materials still sound bot-like and so often are inaccurate, too. And before you chime in with "AI will soon improve until you're not needed!" -- sure, it'll improve, but only by being "trained" by human writers and editors. [/quote]

It is much easier and efficient to edit something generated in 30 seconds, than to spend the time to create the original content.

Here are some excerpts from the WSJ on what AI is already doing to the freelance business:

We can be reasonably certain her story is typical of the experience of tens of thousands, perhaps millions of people, because at least a half dozen studies using data from freelance job boards have been published in the past year, each one building on the previous. Nonpublic data from within at least one such service corroborates this work.

It’s a remarkably fast turnaround for such research, considering that ChatGPT is less than two years old. Wall Street Journal owner News Corp has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.

Freelance jobs that require basic writing, coding or translation are disappearing across postings on job board Upwork, said Kelly Monahan, managing director of the company’s Research Institute.

Economists are fond of saying that AI will automate away some tasks, but is unlikely to eliminate many jobs, since most jobs are much broader and more demanding than the parts that can be handed to AI.

But freelancers represent an increasing proportion of the workforce: One study by Upwork found 38% of Americans did some kind of freelance work in 2022. [b]For this type of work, it’s sometimes the case that the bulk of a person’s job is doing precisely the tasks that can be automated—and that can put their entire livelihood at risk.[/b]

Reid Southen is a concept artist for TV and movies, including ones you’ve probably heard of, including Blue Beetle and the Matrix Resurrections. His income in 2023 was less than half of what he would make in a typical year, he says. That’s even worse than 2020, when the entire film and TV industry effectively shut down.

Southen’s work typically happens in the early stages of a project, when producers need detailed sketches to help them establish the look of a film or show. This kind of behind-the-scenes work is being handed to AI faster than any other part of the film and TV business, as producers seek to cut costs in the face of a broader slowdown in their industry. Much of it is being handled by Midjourney, the image generation AI which by late 2022 was capable of producing photorealistic images from nothing but a short text prompt. If concept artists are brought in at all, it’s to tweak the images already generated by AI, says Southen.

Southen’s experience has been echoed by others in his field, across social media and in the whisper networks that artists like him rely on.[/quote]

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