Man Morning blends motivation, humor, and honesty for men who are building better lives in real time.
The good job doesn't exist anymore.
Not because it got harder to find.
Because the whole model broke.
We’re living through a 1995-Internet moment with AI.
Except this time, it’s not just changing how we work. It’s rewriting what work even means.
Waymo cars are driving themselves through cities with no human behind the wheel.
You can build an app in an afternoon that used to cost $50,000 and six months.
AI is writing emails, booking trips, and closing deals while you're in another meeting.
What happens in the next ten years will make the last fifty look like a warm up.
That’s why the old playbook doesn’t work anymore.
The old deal…
Steady paycheck, benefits, thirty years and a retirement party … always had a fatal flaw:
It assumed the world would stay the same.
One employer.
One skill set.
A predictable environment.
There was a lot of white space.
What people ignored is that when things went wrong like a bad economy, mergers, or AI, the employee always carried the risk.
We just pretended we didn’t.
What’s replaced good jobs are what I call good paths.
Not titles.
Not positions.
Paths.
Because the direction you’re moving matters way more than where you’re standing.
A good path is built on five things that work together:
Your system - Path
Your fuel - Passion
Your aim - Purpose
Your multipliers - People
Your environment - Place
I’ll break these down more in a future issue.
Here are the questions I ask to know when I’m on the right path, and when I’m not:
Does this expand me or drain me?
Am I learning or repeating?
Is there forward motion or just maintenance?
Does my environment push me forward or hold me back?
Do the people around me challenge me or let me coast?
If three out of five are “no,” I’m probably on the wrong path.
Look, I’m not telling you to quit your job tomorrow.
But you have to stop pretending it will exist tomorrow.
Start noticing anything that treats you as replaceable labor and quietly distance yourself from it.
The kind of work that could be done by anyone with a training manual.
Roles where your name doesn’t matter, just your output.
Projects where you’re executing someone else’s vision with zero input.
Make small, reversible bets that increase your options.
Start simple. Learn a skill adjacent to what you do now.
Build something small on the side.
A newsletter, a product or service, or an AI agent.
Meet one person a month who’s three steps ahead of where you want to be.
Join a community that makes you better.
Thirty days of intentional moves. Six months of consistent bets. A year from now, you're in a very different place.
It starts with one day at a time.
The mistake isn't staying where you are.
The mistake is pretending nothing’s changing.
There are no more good jobs.
Only good paths.
The people who win won’t be the ones with the best titles.
They’ll be the ones on the best trajectory.
Build your path.
Stay close to the people moving in that direction.
The roles will show up when you need them.
Antonio
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P.P.S. If you're realizing you're on the wrong path and don't know where to start, hit reply. Sometimes the first move is just saying it out loud.
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