{"id":597650,"date":"2026-04-21T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597650\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:51:21","slug":"ai-is-coming-becoming-an-electrician-wont-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597650\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Coming. Becoming an Electrician Won\u2019t Save You."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Stephen says he\u2019s not worried about AI coming for his job \u201cat all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an electrician,\u201d he said. Chase, 24, did what he describes as a pointless semester at Southern Virginia University. \u201cI went for criminal justice and they gave me a bunch of random classes\u2014English, some communications class,\u201d he said. He dropped out and started working for the Long Island, New York, firm RMD Electric\u2014and he has no regrets. \u201cI have friends who went to college and now they have to get jobs in things their degrees aren\u2019t even related to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you believe the hype about the AI apocalypse, his trajectory is about to become a lot more common. \u201cLearn a trade\u201d has become, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/careers\/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqcajQrpbsvMjzfhBj8xI0A4bQvlGwwdHlGL90bwzrLn3BMz7iuYOOuFJo3PCeo%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69d078d3&amp;gaa_sig=nGsV2UvT2CUzU5JLOlSmoOr3itFBY4sofSfIN6yDkI2AoX_yHGe23HQOgC_wF3ARSf44dWUkUTUmPV6ggEkRWg%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the words of<\/a> The Wall Street Journal, \u201ca rallying cry,\u201d spurred by \u201cfears of an AI \u2018jobpocalypse.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Stephen says he\u2019s not worried about AI coming for his job \u201cat all.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m an electrician,\u201d he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-597650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}