Latest / The Table with Anthony ONeal / The Truth About AI Layoffs: 5 Skills That Will Make You Rich in 2026
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- 0:00[SPEAKER_00]: Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off this year at a time of recording this, we're talking about 20 to 25.
- 0:09[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about Amazon, Microsoft, meta, IBM, all-cutting jobs.
- 0:15[SPEAKER_00]: And if your watchin' is, you might be thinking, AO, in 2026, can my job be next?
- 0:23[SPEAKER_00]: Is AI about to take the seat at my table?
- 0:29[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what the headlines aren't telling you.
- 0:31[SPEAKER_00]: While jobs are disappearing, yes, I'm going to be honest with you.
- 0:35[SPEAKER_00]: AI job postings are up 25% year over year.
- 0:40[SPEAKER_00]: And salaries are hitting 157,000 dollars on average.
- 0:45[SPEAKER_00]: So what's really happening?
- 0:47[SPEAKER_00]: Are we losing jobs to AI?
- 0:50[SPEAKER_00]: Or are we just not learning the skills that AI companies are desperate to hire for?
- 0:58[SPEAKER_00]: Today, I'm going to be breaking down the real story behind the headlines, the numbers you need to know.
- 1:04[SPEAKER_00]: And most importantly, how you can get on the winning side of this shift, no fluff, no fear, just straight value, straight facts and stats, and good information to help you go into 2026 with the correct information to help you possibly do this on a side of your full time job.
- 1:28[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to talk about what actually happened in 2025.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_00]: We saw a layoff wave, over 100,000 take jobs going, Amazon, like I said, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Salesforce, all of these companies made some major cuts.
- 1:44[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, 35,000 right around 445 AI-related jobs were posted in Q1 alone.
- 1:52[SPEAKER_00]: That was a 25.2 increase or 25.2% increase from the year 2024.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the kicker.
- 2:02[SPEAKER_00]: The median AI salary, watch this, is 156,000.
- 2:05[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I'm around that up to about 157,000 dollars a year.
- 2:12[SPEAKER_00]: Wages in AI exposed industries are rising twice as fast as non-AI sectors, but less 10% of companies are using AI on a regular basis.
- 2:25[SPEAKER_00]: That means pay attention.
- 2:28[SPEAKER_00]: Come and close.
- 2:30[SPEAKER_00]: That means there's massive room for growth and a massive skills gap.
- 2:37[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's get real, all right, 23, I think, 23.5% of companies replace workers with chatGPT or similar tools.
- 2:47[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't about AI being bad.
- 2:50[SPEAKER_00]: It's about the market shifting faster than most people are actually adapting.
- 2:55[SPEAKER_00]: My father used to teach me something called, if you're going to be successful, and it's so funny that this is actually I'm able to apply this today.
- 3:05[SPEAKER_00]: But he said, man, you got to learn how to adapt at just and to overcome.
- 3:10[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you cannot quickly adapt and quickly adjust and quickly overcome that was the pass, you will be replaced by someone who can adapt at just and overcome quicker than you.
- 3:24[SPEAKER_00]: The people losing jobs aren't losing to robots.
- 3:27[SPEAKER_00]: They're losing to people who can adapt at just and to overcome.
- 3:35[SPEAKER_00]: The market doesn't care about your job title.
- 3:39[SPEAKER_00]: It cares about your skills.
- 3:41[SPEAKER_00]: It cares about can you adapt at just an overcome?
- 3:45[SPEAKER_00]: It cares about can you learn quickly and adapt?
- 3:49[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can't do that, you're going to lose and you are already losing and you don't even know.
- 3:56[SPEAKER_00]: but if you're willing to adapt, if you're willing to adjust and to overcome quickly, you can and you will be bigger than ever when it comes to income, when it comes to positions.
- 4:09[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look ahead.
- 4:11[SPEAKER_00]: We'll look at MIT and Boston University.
- 4:19[SPEAKER_00]: Just job the report.
- 4:21[SPEAKER_00]: Things that had something 2 million manufacturing jobs could be replaced by AI by the end of 2026.
- 4:27[SPEAKER_00]: Entry level and repetitive task jobs are being automated first.
- 4:36[SPEAKER_00]: And by 2030, 30% of current U.S. jobs could be fully automated, but here's the opportunity.
- 4:50[SPEAKER_00]: who can build, implement, and manage these AI systems.
- 4:56[SPEAKER_00]: The people losing jobs aren't losing them to AI.
- 4:59[SPEAKER_00]: They're losing them to people who can what, quickly adapt, adjust, and overcome, and learn how to use AI automation.
- 5:09[SPEAKER_00]: If you're watching this and you're worried about your job going in in 2026, I want you to flip the script a little bit.
- 5:17[SPEAKER_00]: The question isn't,
- 5:18[SPEAKER_00]: will AI take my job in 2020 series.
- 5:21[SPEAKER_00]: The question needs to be, am I going to be the one automating or the one being automated?
- 5:33[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
- 5:34[SPEAKER_00]: That's a question.
- 5:35[SPEAKER_00]: The question is not going to be, am I going to lose my job next year to AI?
- 5:39[SPEAKER_00]: The question is going to be, am I willing to go learn the skills necessarily?
- 5:46[SPEAKER_00]: not necessarily, necessary to where I can be the one doing the automating with AI, rather than being the person who's ordinary.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_00]: What happens to your family if something happened to you?
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- 7:52[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's keep back to today's show.
- 7:53[SPEAKER_00]: Because I wanted to be super specific with this.
- 7:58[SPEAKER_00]: Who's hiring?
- 8:01[SPEAKER_00]: And what are they paying?
- 8:03[SPEAKER_00]: Who's hiring AI individuals?
- 8:07[SPEAKER_00]: who know how to operate AI and turn it into automation.
- 8:10[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Microsoft.
- 8:12[SPEAKER_00]: They're paying $100,000 to $350,000 a year for AI automation specialists.
- 8:20[SPEAKER_00]: Google is hiring a $100,300,000 a year for AI automation specialists.
- 8:27[SPEAKER_00]: IBM, panel a bit less, but it's still good salary, $100,000 to about $250,000 for AI automation specialists.
- 8:36[SPEAKER_00]: In video is paying anywhere between 250 to about $300,000 plus per year for AI specialists.
- 8:46[SPEAKER_00]: OPEI, Sanctuary, and dozens of startups starting on a lower end about $80,000 to about $175,000 a year.
- 8:58[SPEAKER_00]: Even entry-level AI automation roles are starting at about 90,000 to about 140,000 dollars.
- 9:07[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the wild part.
- 9:08[SPEAKER_00]: These positions are staying open for average of 74 days, because companies can't find qualified candidates.
- 9:18[SPEAKER_00]: So while you all are out here, you know, trying to apply for the same job, what if we just shipped our mindset a little bit?
- 9:27[SPEAKER_00]: and go to what the demand is.
- 9:29[SPEAKER_00]: One of my millionaire friends told me, oh wow, back Anthony, I said, man, how do I make a million dollars?
- 9:37[SPEAKER_00]: Find a void and fill it.
- 9:39[SPEAKER_00]: Go where the average person doesn't want to go one or two doesn't know where to go.
- 9:48[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, do the research, look into the future, find out where is the demand and you go feel that demand.
- 9:58[SPEAKER_00]: Because when you can find the demand, you'll find the money.
- 10:03[SPEAKER_00]: Because what's missing, people, you, individuals with skills.
- 10:12[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't need a computer science degree.
- 10:15[SPEAKER_00]: Heck, be honest, you don't need a four year degree.
- 10:18[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to be a coder, but you don't need to know how to connect the tools that companies are already using?
- 10:24[SPEAKER_00]: No, you need the desire to want to feel avoid and to fix it.
- 10:36[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I'm going to Ghana.
- 10:38[SPEAKER_00]: I see, I see a void over there.
- 10:41[SPEAKER_00]: I want to partner with my brothers and sisters and bring financial leaders and find education from a Christian perspective.
- 10:49[SPEAKER_00]: So we're creating a school bus, where we're doing some great things.
- 10:55[SPEAKER_00]: I'm finding a void, I'm thinking in the future, and I'm feeling it.
- 11:01[SPEAKER_00]: So here's a real question that you need to ask yourself, Paul, this video.
- 11:08[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be automated?
- 11:11[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be the automator?
- 11:15[SPEAKER_00]: Say it one more time.
- 11:18[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be automated or are you going to be the automator?
- 11:28[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be replaced with another human being who can do the automation?
- 11:36[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to go and get the skills and the tools necessary to where you can do it yourself?
- 11:44[SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about the skills that matter.
- 11:48[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you're still watching this, that means that you're, you're, okay, wait, wait, I feel you.
- 11:51[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm with your Anthony.
- 11:54[SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about the skills that matter.
- 12:00[SPEAKER_00]: No code, AR automation tools.
- 12:04[SPEAKER_00]: Make.com.
- 12:07[SPEAKER_00]: In 8 in.
- 12:09[SPEAKER_00]: chatGTP, I'm sorry, chatGPT integration, voice AI, chatbox, workflow automation, these are the tools companies are desperate for.
- 12:23[SPEAKER_00]: And you can learn the matter of months.
- 12:26[SPEAKER_00]: I literally just hired a 23-year-old $10,000 to build an A-R automation system for my company.
- 12:34[SPEAKER_00]: And he turned me on to N8NN8N, right?
- 12:40[SPEAKER_00]: Turn me on to make.com.
- 12:42[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in this, I'm sitting in like, wait, I can do this.
- 12:45[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, we can do this, wait, what?
- 12:48[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on, family?
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- 13:53[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the truth, man.
- 13:54[SPEAKER_00]: I'm even dealing with this with my team.
- 13:57[SPEAKER_00]: We all got to adjust to it.
- 13:58[SPEAKER_00]: Some of my teams are like, they're not really using the automation stuff yet.
- 14:03[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's relatively new.
- 14:04[SPEAKER_00]: And so what we've done is we've gotten so used to doing it our way that even us individuals, we still have to get used to using it to help us get our jobs done faster and more efficiently.
- 14:20[SPEAKER_00]: Rather than it being maybe on the scale when a 10, 10 being perfect, one being not as perfect,
- 14:26[SPEAKER_00]: I would rather have more out there with a nine than less out there with the 10 because nine is still good to the average I and AI can be give you at least an eight to a nine and the truth of the fact is
- 14:45[SPEAKER_00]: with the correct boot count, with the correct course, with the correct time, may you can learn this up in a matter of months, not years, and for literally 10% of the cost of a four-year degree.
- 14:59[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the few times in hisries where you can learn a high income skill in months, not years.
- 15:08[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to go back to school.
- 15:10[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to take on debt.
- 15:11[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to be well, you all you need to do.
- 15:14[SPEAKER_00]: It's to be willing to learn, take action, and get in the game.
- 15:20[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of you all are gonna ask me, okay, AR here, where do I start?
- 15:27[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, the truth of the fact is, man, I've been doing a lot of research myself.
- 15:32[SPEAKER_00]: And because I want you all to be ready,
- 15:36[SPEAKER_00]: I need you to be ready, in 2020, since, 20, 20, 26.
- 15:41[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, I've partnered with Careeris.
- 15:45[SPEAKER_00]: I've been looking into their bootcamp and we've already sent close to 1500 students through their AR Automation Bootcamp, and it is amazing.
- 15:54[SPEAKER_00]: People are getting a side job, and some people are even starting a side business making an extra $1,500 a month, just for a four month bootcamp.
- 16:07[SPEAKER_00]: You could do this at home, self-paced.
- 16:10[SPEAKER_00]: You jump on the Zoom with the actual teacher, not just of course.
- 16:15[SPEAKER_00]: No, you actually have a teacher in the front of you, teaching AI automation, teaching you everything, you have classmates, you see your classmates inside the boot camp.
- 16:25[SPEAKER_00]: You get a real internship, a real portfolio, and they've got a guaranteed job.
- 16:33[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't land a roll, you get your money back.
- 16:38[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't get a job with them, you get your money back.
- 16:42[SPEAKER_00]: That's confidence.
- 16:44[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you know Israel.
- 16:47[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're serious about future proofing your career,
- 16:51[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to go to anthonyonil.com 4 slash AI automation.
- 16:56[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that is anthonyonil.com 4 slash AI automation, full out the form, and within a matter of 24 to 72 hours, you should receive an email to schedule a consultation with some of the careers team to sit down with you and to make sure that you are good fit for this boot camp.
- 17:12[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I love about them is they're not just going to charge you money and just throw you the course.
- 17:17[SPEAKER_00]: They want to make sure
- 17:20[SPEAKER_00]: that you understand what you're signing up for and that you can commit to the boot camp for the next three to four months.
- 17:27[SPEAKER_00]: And that you are a great candidate because they're putting their money behind it.
- 17:33[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to put your money up on it for a good product.
- 17:35[SPEAKER_00]: They got to make sure that you're a good person and you're going to complete the program and do everything.
- 17:38[SPEAKER_00]: They say you need to do to make sure that you get a job.
- 17:42[SPEAKER_00]: By this time, next year, you can have a totally different kind of lifestyle.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_00]: You can be working from home.
- 17:50[SPEAKER_00]: You can be working from home, maybe working five hours a day.
- 17:55[SPEAKER_00]: There is an investment.
- 17:56[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to spend some money, right?
- 17:59[SPEAKER_00]: But they got payment plans for you.
- 18:00[SPEAKER_00]: That's not dead.
- 18:01[SPEAKER_00]: It's payment plans over your course of your, your, your boot camp, right?
- 18:06[SPEAKER_00]: But the ROI isn't saying.
- 18:09[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, you can spend the next year hoping your job is safe or you can spend the next four months learning the skills that make you irreplaceable.
- 18:19[SPEAKER_00]: This is about investing in yourself.
- 18:21[SPEAKER_00]: It's about buying your time back.
- 18:22[SPEAKER_00]: It's about building wealth for your children's children children.
- 18:26[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you to quit your job tomorrow.
- 18:28[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm telling you to do is get into position because the market is shifting and the people who move first are the ones who win.
- 18:37[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not learning AI in any field at your end, I don't care if you're, I'm a professor.
- 18:43[SPEAKER_00]: I'm learning AI for myself.
- 18:46[SPEAKER_00]: If, if, if, if, if I don't even incorporate AI within my business, I'm gonna lose you all the tension.
- 18:54[SPEAKER_00]: everybody.
- 18:55[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what field you're in.
- 18:58[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not using AI, you will be replaced by someone who's using AI because that person can provide more work for the same money that you're getting.
- 19:10[SPEAKER_00]: And as a business owner, think about it.
- 19:12[SPEAKER_00]: Do I pay you the same money?
- 19:15[SPEAKER_00]: to get the same kind of work, or can I take the same money?
- 19:18[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm paying you $5,000 a month, and you're giving me, let's say, 10 pieces.
- 19:23[SPEAKER_00]: But I can go to this guy, pay him $5,000 a month, the same money, and get 30 pieces, even quicker from a business sense, what makes sense.
- 19:39[SPEAKER_00]: old Anthony, but I'm giving you 10 pieces and it's a A plus.
- 19:45[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
- 19:46[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you are.
- 19:47[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting 30 pieces and it's a B plus A minus I'll take the 30 pieces, please.
- 20:08[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not willing to adapt, adjust, and to overcome, if you're not willing to properly, priorly plan so that you can prevent poor performances.
- 20:22[SPEAKER_00]: So you can prevent yourself from being replaced.
- 20:26[SPEAKER_00]: Really is your problem.
- 20:29[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
- 20:29[SPEAKER_00]: It's you.
- 20:34[SPEAKER_00]: I've told you some of my team, and I said, hey, man, listen, I'm investing into AI.
- 20:38[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not learning it and using it and if you're not coming up with things with AI to help you your position, you probably will be replaced.
- 20:50[SPEAKER_00]: Because as a business, if I don't do that, it's going to hurt me financially.
- 20:57[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to hurt me financially.
- 21:10[SPEAKER_00]: Go to Anthonyonil.com, 4-AI Automation to link with being inside a today's show-nobst.
- 21:16[SPEAKER_00]: Flock the application.
- 21:18[SPEAKER_00]: Haber consultation with Carrerason, and see if, if you're a good fit for the program, which I believe the majority of us are.
- 21:28[SPEAKER_00]: But let's recap.
- 21:29[SPEAKER_00]: Two million jobs will be disappearing in the year 2026.
- 21:35[SPEAKER_00]: But millions of new jobs,
- 21:38[SPEAKER_00]: being created for people who know how to work with AI, but not against it.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_00]: If you're serious about changing your financial future, if you're serious about future proof in your career and getting on the winning side of this shift,
- 22:05[SPEAKER_00]: Please, I'm begging you.
- 22:08[SPEAKER_00]: Go on to 2026 with this plan with a strategy.
- 22:11[SPEAKER_00]: Check out the AI automation bootcamp I linked and started inside of today's show description.
- 22:18[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a job guarantee if you don't land a role.
- 22:22[SPEAKER_00]: You get your money back.
- 22:24[SPEAKER_00]: That's confidence.
- 22:26[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you know it's real.
- 22:30[SPEAKER_00]: I can't stress this enough as we're ending today's episode.
- 22:37[SPEAKER_00]: The market is shifting.
- 22:38[SPEAKER_00]: The question is, are you shifting with it?
- 22:42[SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait for permission.
- 22:43[SPEAKER_00]: Don't wait for someone to save your seat.
- 22:46[SPEAKER_00]: Take your seat at the table and vesting yourself.
- 22:50[SPEAKER_00]: Build the skills.
- 22:52[SPEAKER_00]: And I promise you, 2026 will be different.
- 22:55[SPEAKER_00]: If you got value from today's episode, if you all like how we're condescending and getting straight into it and turning it right around, but 25 to 30 minutes, can you hit that thumbs up button and hit that subscribe button and share this with someone who needs to hear it?
- 23:10[SPEAKER_00]: And drop a comment below.
- 23:11[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know what skills you're learning next.
- 23:15[SPEAKER_00]: What's holding you back?
- 23:16[SPEAKER_00]: Me and my team to read all of them, all right?
- 23:19[SPEAKER_00]: Super Anthony and my god bless you.
- 23:22[SPEAKER_00]: See you in the next one.
- 23:23[SPEAKER_00]: Peace out.