> a paid internship at a civic-consulting firm, years of volunteering at environmental-defense organizations, experience working on farms and in parks as well

> a paid internship at a civic-consulting firm, years of volunteering at environmental-defense organizations, experience working on farms and in parks as well as in offices, a close-to-perfect GPA, strong letters of recommendation > He would do anything—filing paperwork, digging trenches—to build his dream career protecting California’s wildlife and public lands > He applied to 200 jobs. He got rejected 200 times. Actually, he clarified, he “didn’t get rejected 200 times.” A lot of businesses never responded I'm not sure this has anything to do with AI. It's hard enough to land an environmental non-profit, state, or federal environmental job. It is doubly difficult to do so when both the Federal [0] and State [1] government are slashing hiring across the board. This article is just "AI washing" austerity measures and offshoring that is occuring in the US. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mass_layoffs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_m... [1] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-governor-aims-to-slash-10000-vacant-state-jobs-to-help-close-27-6-billion-deficit https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-governor-ai...