By Lucy Knight,Sumaiya Motara
Publication Date: 2026-02-11 05:00:00
CCalifornia resident Jacqueline Bowman has been determined to become a writer since she was a child. At 14, she got her first internship at her local newspaper and later studied journalism at university. Although she was unable to make a full-time living from her favorite activity, writing fiction, after graduating, she got regular work as a writer (mainly content marketing, some journalism) and became self-employed full-time at the age of 26. Of course, content marketing wasn’t exactly her dream, but she wrote every day and paid the bills with it – she was happy enough.
“But in 2024, something really changed,” says Bowman, now 30. Layoffs and publication closures caused much of her work to “dry up a little bit. I started getting clients to come to me and talk about AI,” she says — some were even bold enough to tell her how “great” it was that “we don’t need writers anymore.” She was offered a position as an editor – reviewing and editing work produced by…
