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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Desperate for work and the modern-day slavery

    I was crying myself to sleep, wondering if I’d just handed my personal information to scammers. My husband tried to console me, but my gut was screaming what my desperate mind had ignored: this AI job was too good to be true. Let me back up and tell you how I got here. There was Read more

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  • Beyond quiet quitting and bai lan: finding a third way to work

    I’ve been unsettled these past few months about my changing attitude towards work. I can’t help but see myself resonating with my generation’s disillusionment, and it’s escalating my anxiety about the future. I feel like I’ve been cheated right after university—”too educated” for humble jobs, yet somehow I’ve forgotten that our kind of work today Read more

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  • Cutting the clutter in nth drafts

    While I was working on my draft for the nth iteration—because I couldn’t remember how many times I had reorganized and refined it—I felt a sudden resistance to deleting some information I found valuable, even when they do not really add more value to the narrative. Perhaps I just wanted to sound knowledgeable, having to Read more

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  • Letting go of control

    Hopelessness dims the future, making it difficult to imagine what good might come out if you even try to press on through the dark to see if there is an end to it. One can also remain hopeful even when in the dark. While I was going through moments of uncertainty, it certainly felt like Read more

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  • Life’s uncertainties

    I think about the many ways my life would turn out, like in a role-play game where each choice leads to another set of probabilities, possibilities, and alternatives. However, unlike a game where I can always return to the next save point if I don’t like how things are going, there’s no do-over in real Read more

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  • “Think before you trust”

    I have been following AI updates to stay in the know, although I don’t delve deeply into the technical discussions—closest would be reading Ethan Mollick’s regular newsletters on “the implications of AI for work, education, and life.“ When I stumbled upon this video yesterday, I was amazed how I had a “shared experience” with Seth Read more

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  • Cluttered mind

    I can sense how my cluttered mind is affecting my ability to organize all my daily tasks—the tasks I have started but haven’t finished, tasks that are still waiting for closure. And so they overflow and get carried over to the next day, and the next, and the next. I think this is the cost Read more

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jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

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