Using AI To Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age

by Wm Hovey Smith

Overview

Celebrated author Wm. Hovey Smith explains how to use AI to create new business ideas and start your own businesses in the US. This is a business book for the non-business major filled with practical advice based on the author's hard-won experiences. Practical hints are given about naming, financing, choosing partners, location, product pricing, and having fun with your businesses.

Reviews of the author's works include Kirkus who considered the previous version of this book "a worthy book for the newbie entrepreneur" and by the U.S. Review of Books who put it on their "Recommended List." Potential users range from teens to seniors who seek to discover that, "There is nothing in human experience that cannot be turned into profit by an inventive mind."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781967776016
Publisher:	Authors' Tranquility Press
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

Editorial Reviews

2025-06-04
A general guide to starting a business in an age of artificial intelligence and employment insecurity.

Smith shrewdly observes that the breakneck pace of technological progress, especially regarding artificial intelligence, is upending traditional forms of employment. (“The old model of a person working for years to climb up the corporate ladder is broken.”) Virtually no one’s job is immune to the “brutal logic” of corporate streamlining, which reduces even the best workers to “interchangeable work units,” per the author. Smith posits that, amidst this intensifying precariousness, the only sure path to financial freedom is to create a business of one’s own. In this concise instructional manual (the text is a bit over 150 pages in length), the author introduces various brainstorming techniques designed to generate new business ideas, running the gamut from reconnecting with old “school chums” to striking up conversations with strangers, counsel that is as sensible as it is unspectacular. A significant portion of the book is devoted to the establishment of the business once a concept has been formed—Smith addresses the naming of the concern, the composition of a business plan, social media marketing, and many other related issues in a clear fashion. The author also discusses his own professional life as a military combat engineer and geologist and the lessons he’s learned over the years regarding the management of loneliness and ill health. Smith’s advice is consistently prudent if not particularly original—he encourages the reader to exercise, eat well, avoid the “temptation and perils of alcohol and drugs,” and find solace in creative work. (“Change from worry to planning. Switching from continually worrying about present problems to doing something creative with your business is mental relaxation and mental work at the same time.”) In the most concretely helpful section of the work, the author explains how one can use various AI programs to assist with the writing of a book. Unfortunately,this book, as a whole, is excessively general in its guidance and too often traffics in platitudes.

An instructional guide hampered by a lack of specificity.

Kirkus Reviews