I have to vent to people who will get it. I'm on a monthly retainer with a long-term client. This morning, on our check-in call, the client's marketing manager said they were evaluating costs and asked me to provide a breakdown of my process to see where it differs from the outputs they can get from ChatGPT. I was floored. It was the most polite, corporate way of saying prove to us we shouldn't replace you with a robot. I've been in a panic all day, feeling completely commoditized. I know my work is more than just stringing words together, but I've never had to actually prove it. All the research, the brainstorming, the staring at the brief until it clicks time, it's all invisible. So I'm tracking every single minute of my work for them this week. I'm using Monitask to log not just the writing time, but all the app and website usage, so I can create a report that shows the hours spent in competitor research, reading their internal docs, and analyzing customer feedback. I'm going to build a case study of my own brain. Has anyone else been put in this position? How do I quantify the thinking part of the job to a client who only sees the final word count?   submitted by   /u/SeveralProcedure1417 [link]   [comments]