What is up a tier?
What Happens When Someone in Their 40s with Zero Tech and Creative Experience Tries to Reinvent Themselves with AI? Welcome to—Up a Tier—My Real-Time Experiment in Skill Acquisition, Reinvention, and Not Getting Left Behind
Disclaimer… I’ve never written anything before, so forgive the flow and tone. I’ll get better along the way.
I don’t have a creative background. Never built anything online. Never made a video. Never written anything worth reading. For years, I told myself it didn’t matter—I had a steady job, income, a life. But then I started paying attention. AI. Automation. I may not have first movers’ advantage, but technology offers a balancing hand. History is full of people who didn’t evolve—scribes who faded when the printing press arrived, telegraph operators sidelined when the telephone took over. I don’t want to be a cautionary tale.
If I don’t adapt, I’ll stay exactly where I am—too busy, too lazy, too comfortable living a life I don’t want instead of building one I do.
So now I’m here, learning this from scratch. No experience. No roadmap. Just an idea and a willingness to look stupid in public.
That’s what Up a Tier is—an experiment in reinvention, skill acquisition, and leveraging AI, content, and digital tools to build something meaningful.
This blog, along with other social platforms, will be my feedback loop, my proof of work.
Here’s the plan:
Master AI & digital tools – Not just creatively but in real-world applications. Learn prompting. Identify gaps where even a beginner like me can create value.
Build an online presence – Blogging, videos—maybe even a podcast. Create, iterate, improve.
Turn these skills into something real – A business, a career, or at least a side hustle that makes this all worth it.
I’ll document everything—every win, every mistake, every setback. Full send.
The fear? It’s real. The doubt? Constant. The urge to retreat into comfort? Always there.
I don’t know how this ends, but I know this: the only way to find out is to do it. If you’ve ever felt like the world is leaving you behind, stick around—or better still, join me; it’ll be a clumsy step at a time, but let’s stumble up a tier…or two.
