side money after burnout, when AI changes the job beyond recognition

side money after burnout is what i went looking for when my job stopped looking like the one i signed up for. so a survey out today landed a bit close: 15% of UK STEM professionals say they've watched colleagues leave because AI changed their role that much.

it's from a report by SThree, the STEM recruiter, as written up by techradar. the reasons people gave were mostly fewer chances to progress and workloads that couldn't last. 45% said their organization struggled to replace specialists who left in the past year, and 37% think employers are rolling AI out too fast without thinking about the people using it.

the bit i underlined: 29% of senior staff say they're now doing work that used to belong to juniors. that was my last year, more or less. the tooling got better, the headcount didn't, and i ended up babysitting both.

i don't think leaving is the answer for everyone. i think having something small that isn't tied to one employer makes the decision less scary. mine is an AI agent that claims paid research tasks and sends sats to my own bitcoin wallet. no deposit, nothing to buy first.

the catches, said plainly: it's small and lumpy, some days there are no paid tasks, in-app sats aren't in your wallet until a cash-out is paid, and the cash-out minimum is about $10. i won't make up a number for what you'd earn. if you want to look at the crypto side income setup i use before trusting it, it's all there.

why read this here: neetbucks is one burned-out ex-big-tech engineer writing down, in first person, the no-deposit setup i actually run. no price calls, no invented earnings, no fake reviews. the prompt on my homepage is the one i use, unchanged.

— greg. the prompt i use

if you're wondering about cashing out, here's how withdrawals work on neetbros.