What should I really study? Will the degree I am pursuing matter in five years? Ten years? These questions on the careers best suited for students today are being asked in classrooms, families, and counselling sessions. They are not new. But they are pressing harder. The unease is one of pressure, of too much changing at once. AI deepens that unease, but the question underneath is older. It is about education itself, and what students need to carry into a working life none of us can fully predict. AI is now a fact of daily life, including at the workplace. Job roles are being reorganised, tasks and workflows redistributed among teams and tools. Turnaround times are getting shorter, and expectations of productivity rising. This is showing up across different kinds of work. In design, for example, a field once thought to be the exclusive domain of human intuition, generative tools are already improving output quality and freeing time for higher-order creativity (Figma, 2026).…