About Life’s Work by Julia Hobsbawm

Not me, obviously. Even though my career is so old I remember the first piece of working kit was a typewriter, followed by a telex machine….

But having worked through the analogue to the digital age and now the agentic age has its benefits, not least the benefit of hindsight. Hopefully married with some foresight - which is what this is about.

This isn’t just about work but how we live, and how we live and work. How so many of us feel worked over by these times. The gulf between generations at work - well sometimes it’s vast and other times we’re all on the same page. Certainly the human and the machine are permanently entwined in all but a handful of jobs. But what we feel about that, expect about it, and learn the skills we need - that’s different for us all now. No make-it-up-as-you-go-along-touch-typing in a ‘prompt’ era. I draw on a four-decade career working in publishing, politics, media, events, and academia; a career as an entrepreneur, and a life as a working mum to place the past, present and future of working life in some context. More on me overall here.

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Born in an analogue age, now learning to live in an AI age. The story of life and work today using some of what I've learned in forty years of working life: From Telex to Twitter, from typewritters to prompts, and from full time desk job to the hustle age

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Analogue woman in an AI Age. Writes about a life in communications, politics, media, and the changes... See separate @workathon Substack!