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Your domain depth is the asset a 25-year-old can't copy. The job is to repackage it in language an AI-era hiring manager understands.
Twenty years in manufacturing teaches you what a healthy supply chain feels like before any number proves it. Twenty years in journalism teaches you when a source is lying. Twenty years in retail teaches you which customer complaints are early warnings. AI doesn't have that. It has patterns from training data — you have patterns from being there.
| What you'd say in your old industry | What it sounds like to an AI hiring manager |
|---|---|
| I have 20 years of experience | I have 20 years of edge cases AI has never seen |
| I know our customers | I have a labeled dataset in my head |
| I can spot a bad contract | I am a domain expert who can write evals |
| I trained the new hires | I can produce the system prompt and the test cases |
| I keep the old database alive | I know what data hygiene actually means in this industry |
The big idea: AI flattens the bottom of every profession. The top — where pattern recognition and judgment live — is exactly where 20 years gets you.
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