The 5-year grind is gone.

The 5-year grind is gone.

That was the deal. Pay your dues as a paralegal for five years, learn the craft, become a real lawyer. Same for junior dev, sales rep, analyst — every field had a ramp.

Those entry positions don't exist anymore. AI took them. So now you're asked to become the senior version of a role you were never allowed to start in.

The ladder is broken and nobody's fixing it from the top.

The takeaway: stop waiting to be trained. Train yourself in public — projects, case studies, shipped work — so you walk in already mid-career.

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