Young workers were told to do well in school and stay hungry; the jobs still didn’t come

AI and automation are compressing everything that can be made fast and routine. Your sustainable edge is not speed alone, but the ability to understand context, read what is actually happening in a room, push back on a brief that is technically correct but strategically wrong, and take responsibility when something goes wrong. These are parts of the job that are not getting automated soon. They are also the parts no training programme can simply hand you.