#2444 - Q&A: “Can I get paid $250k as an AI prompt engineer??”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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You might have heard about the rise of AI “prompt engineers,” where people are earning high salaries to help Chat-GPT and other tools create code and content. How do you break into the field?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I'm not usually in the habit of helping people get jobs, okay? |
| 0:14.4 | I'm happy to refer people to LinkedIn or Zippercruder or something like that, or offer |
| 0:20.0 | some advice on how to thrive in your jobs that you can do your side hustle or how to get |
| 0:25.3 | away with doing your side hustle in your job, as the case may be. |
| 0:29.3 | But today we have a question specifically about getting a job in this new field known as AI |
| 0:34.6 | prompt engineers, which is kind of a side hustling sort of thing, even though we are talking |
| 0:39.1 | about employment. |
| 0:40.1 | So I decided it was relevant. |
| 0:41.6 | You might have seen a bunch of news articles, you know, this new field of people who are |
| 0:46.6 | getting paid really high salaries to help chat GPT and other tools, create code, create |
| 0:51.6 | content. |
| 0:52.6 | Some of the salaries I've seen are $250,000, sometimes $300,000 or more, and this is a field |
| 0:58.4 | that just came out of nowhere, right? |
| 1:00.6 | So you know, we're going to hear from Ella, who is a computer science major. |
| 1:05.2 | She's got some background in this world, or at least in something that's related, because |
| 1:10.2 | as mentioned, this is totally new, at least relatively new. |
| 1:13.8 | And so she's interested not just because of its lucrative potential, but also because |
| 1:17.2 | of its lend of creativity and the expertise she has. |
| 1:21.1 | So let's talk about it. |
| 1:22.1 | If you wanted to break into this field or let's say something else that's new, and you |
| 1:26.4 | have to apply some entrepreneurial thinking to that, how might you go about it? |
| 1:30.1 | Like, how can you get paid $250,000 or more as an AI prompt engineer? |
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