How do I cope when my profession feels obsolete?

You can help anyone find and judge what they need, and you are watching the world act as though that skill no longer matters. That grief is real. You are mourning not just a job but a way of being useful that you gave yourself to. Let yourself feel it plainly. Something valuable is being treated as though it is not, and that is a genuine loss. But look closely at what is actually happening. The world is drowning in information and starving for people who can tell true from false, signal from noise. The name of your profession may be fading. The need it served has never been greater. What you know how to do is not obsolete; it is misnamed and undervalued for now. So carry the skill into wherever it is still needed, even if the title is gone. Help one person this week sort what is real from what is not, and notice their relief. The world has not stopped needing you. It has only forgotten what to call you. You do not have to forget.