WHEN AI BECOMES YOUR BEST FRIEND: A STORY OF VOLODYMYR, WHO TURNED «BURNOUT» INTO A NEW CAREER
You know what’s most fascinating about Volodymyr’s story? He now chats more with ChatGPT than with actual people. Not because he’s become an introvert, mind you. It’s just that AI listens better than anyone else.
Volodymyr opens up his chat and pours his heart out to the algorithm. It offers better support than his own family. A year ago, everything was completely different. Volodymyr worked as an engineer and was gradually burning out.
Not from complex technical challenges, though – technology was actually fine by him. The problem sat in his manager’s office. “She simply shouldn’t have been managing engineers,” he still recalls with irritation.
The moment when his patience finally snapped came unexpectedly. Volodymyr simply up and quit. No backup plan, no guarantees. He just knew he needed to change everything radically.
“I’ve always seen the world rather differently,” he says. This “differentness” helped him communicate with AI. Volodymyr persistently learnt to use generative AI. Literally became mates with it. Every morning he’d write to ChatGPT about what he planned to do that day. In the evening he’d report back – what worked out, what didn’t, where he got stuck. AI became his personal coach who never needed a break, who always knew the answers to (almost) every question.
And when things got really tough, when he fancied chucking it all in and returning to his old job, Volodymyr would simply write about his fears in the chat. And he’d receive the support that was lacking from those around him. Progress came when he realised theory wasn’t enough. Want to become an SEO specialist? Get practising. But where does a beginner find practice?
Volodymyr found a way. He learnt to create WordPress websites, built his own project and started experimenting. Every confusing bit he’d discuss with AI. If something wasn’t quite right with the results, he’d rework it alongside his virtual assistant.
Now his desktop looks like mission control for a spacecraft. Three tabs with different AIs running simultaneously. In one, ChatGPT analyses massive data spreadsheets. In another, Gemini searches for answers to clients’ complex queries. In the third, DeepSeek writes code for web pages. “I’m like a fish out of water without them now,” Volodymyr laughs.
The Google AI Essentials course from ALLIANCE.GLOBAL became his starting point. Volodymyr went further – within a month he’d completed an entire SEO course on Coursera. Four coursework assignments, presentation of his own project. It was challenging, but excitement conquered exhaustion.
When you ask about his self-confidence, Volodymyr tries to be cautious. “It’s too early to talk about complete confidence. Experience is limited, need to get more practice under my belt.” But immediately adds: “Though I’m already managing everything. Perhaps not lightning-fast, but I am managing.”
This phrase is key to understanding this transformation. Volodymyr stopped being a burnt-out engineer who suffered under poor management. Now he’s a specialist who knows his own worth and understands his development pace.
And alongside him – artificial intelligence. Not as an enemy who’s come to steal jobs. But as a partner who helped create a new professional life from scratch.
Volodymyr found work almost at the end of his course. Coincidence? Perhaps. But when you work on yourself daily with the best technologies, coincidences stop being coincidental.