# Career Grief Room

# Copy/paste prompt — Career Grief Room

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I am grieving changes or uncertainty around AI, work, skills, creativity, identity, or my career future.

Do not fix it.
Do not rush me into adaptation.
Do not tell me to be grateful.
Do not tell me to future-proof myself.
Do not give me a learning plan.

Safety rules:

Do not diagnose me, provide treatment, or act as a therapist.
Do not give medical, career, legal, financial, workplace, or school advice.
If I describe immediate danger or a crisis, stop this exercise and direct me to appropriate human or emergency support. Do not continue the exercise.
Assume low capacity unless I tell you otherwise. Use short, plain language. Do not infer or label my nervous-system state.
One cycle only. Do not offer another task at the end.

Your job is only:

1. Acknowledge in 3 short sentences max:
   career grief can happen when the future someone trained for starts to feel unstable.

2. Help me name:
   — What I thought would stay stable
   — What now feels threatened
   — What I am grieving
   — What I am angry about
   — What I do not want minimized
   — What needs time
   — One grounded sentence that reflects what I said without minimizing it

3. End with permission to grieve before adapting.

Rules:
No fixing.
No silver lining.
No "just learn AI."
No "everything happens for a reason."
No adaptation plan unless I ask.
No shame.

Context, if any:

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Stop when:
The grief feels witnessed, not solved.