{"id":11477,"date":"2026-01-18T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jobprofile.ch\/?p=11477"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:34:02","slug":"lost-in-your-own-job-when-you-can-no-longer-explain-what-you-do-and-ai-is-knocking-at-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jobprofile.ch\/en\/lost-in-your-own-job-when-you-can-no-longer-explain-what-you-do-and-ai-is-knocking-at-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in your own job. When you can no longer explain what you do (and AI is knocking at the door)"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” bottom_margin=”50″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text text_direction=”default” css=”.vc_custom_1767099758430{margin-top: 50px !important;}”]Recently, several people have come to see me with the same professional distress:<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cLeslie, I\u2019m completely lost\u2026 I earn a good living, I have a position of responsibility, but I no longer know why I get up in the morning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The typical profile? Surprisingly consistent. Executives, managers, directors, senior experts with responsibility and comfortable salaries. People who have \u201cmade it\u201d on paper. And yet, an inner void. An identity fog.<\/span><\/p>\n

They all share the same symptom: deep exhaustion, not physical, but existential. They are completely lost.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_direction=”default” css=”.vc_custom_1767100458616{margin-top: 50px !important;}”]\n

The revealing test: one simple question
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\u201cExplain your job to me in two minutes, as if you were talking to your 15-year-old nephew. What do you actually do? What are you for? What value do you create?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The result was staggering. And frightening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awkward silences, evasive looks, stammering, retreating into abstract corporate jargon (\u201cI manage flows,\u201d \u201cI optimize synergies,\u201d \u201cI coordinate interfaces,\u201d \u201cI work cross-functionally\u201d). An inability to define the tangible value they produce.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you can no longer simply explain what you do, the link between you and your work is broken.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are not isolated cases. We are living through an epidemic of professional disorientation. This crisis of meaning, which anthropologist David Graeber brilliantly identified under the provocative term \u201cBullshit Jobs,\u201d is no longer a marginal theory. It is a lived reality for a significant share of the working population.<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_direction=”default” css=”.vc_custom_1767100050049{margin-top: 50px !important;}”]\n

1.The erosion of meaning: when tasks no longer form an identity
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This great blur affects all categories:<\/span><\/p>\n