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A psychiatrist built a doomsday clock for your career
howlongtillAItakesyourjob.com tells you, precise to the day, when AI takes over your job. Then it tells you what to do with the feeling that gives you. That second part is the point.
The story
Type your job, answer four quick questions, and a split-flap departures board stamps your date: the estimated day AI takes over your work. An accountant gets 2029. A software developer gets 2030. A plumber gets 2061 and permission to feel smug. The site covers 774 occupations in five languages, built on published labor research, with a scenario toggle running from Optimist to Doomer ("assumes the CEOs are right for once").
The twist is the sender. The site was built by Bram van der Boom, a Dutch psychiatrist who treats anxiety for a living, and it refuses to leave visitors alone with their date. Every result ends in an appeals procedure: concrete moves that push the date back, a letter from the Bureau of Scheduled Obsolescence, and a word from the doctor about what career fear is actually for. By the site's own math, his date is 2042. He also coined the word for what his site hands out: the doomdate. AI anxiety has been in the scientific literature since 2017; what is new, he argues, is that everyone now has a doomdate.
The site is deliberately honest about its own precision. The methodology page is titled "How we calculated this, and why it is wrong". The day is theater. The trend, backed by occupation-level exposure research, is real.
Fast facts
- WhatA date-precise AI job takeover countdown, per occupation, shareable as a boarding pass.
- WhoBram van der Boom, MD, psychiatrist and entrepreneur, the Netherlands.
- Coverage774 occupations, five languages (EN, NL, FR, DE, ES).
- DataFelten, Raj & Seamans AI Occupational Exposure scores; Frey & Osborne automation probabilities (Oxford); Anthropic labor market research (2026): AI can already do 94 percent of computer and math work, yet only 33 percent is adopted.
- ModelExposure percentile plus automation probability, corrected with an embodiment factor per job family. Language models do not have hands.
- PrivacyAnswers never leave the visitor's browser. No accounts, no tracking of results.
- The angleBuilt by a psychiatrist: the site treats the anxiety it causes. His coinage for what it hands out: the doomdate.
Quotes you may lift
Fear is a terrible forecaster and a decent alarm clock. If a countdown on a website made your stomach drop, that drop is information. It points at something you love.Bram van der Boom, psychiatrist and maker
The exact day is theater and we say so on the site. What is real is the order in which work changes. Accountants before plumbers. That order deserves a bigger conversation than it is getting.Bram van der Boom
AI anxiety has been in the literature since 2017. What is new is that everyone now has a doomdate. Doomdate anxiety is what walks into my consulting room, and the wink is part of the treatment.Bram van der Boom
By my own site's math, AI takes my job in 2042. I intend to be annoyingly hard to replace long before then. That intention is the whole point of the site.Bram van der Boom
Images
Boarding passes render on demand and may be used freely in coverage. Generate one for any job by editing the URL, or screenshot the site itself.
Pattern: /api/og?jt=JOBTITLE&dd=YYYY-MM-DD&bd=0..4&l=en (bd: 0 final call, 1 boarding, 2 on time, 3 delayed, 4 cancelled)
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press@howlongtillaitakesyourjob.com
Interviews in Dutch or English. Fast replies; the maker treats anxiety for a living and answering journalists turns out to be milder work.
Voor Nederlandse redacties
Psychiater bouwt aftelklok voor je carrière
Op howlongtillAItakesyourjob.com typ je je beroep en krijg je op de dag af de datum waarop AI je werk overneemt, gepresenteerd als vertrekbord op een vliegveld. Een accountant krijgt 2029, een softwareontwikkelaar 2030, een loodgieter 2061. De site dekt 774 beroepen in vijf talen en is gebouwd op gepubliceerd arbeidsmarktonderzoek van onder meer Oxford en Anthropic.
De maker is Bram van der Boom, psychiater. Precies daarom laat de site bezoekers niet alleen met hun datum: elk resultaat eindigt in een bezwaarprocedure met concrete stappen die de datum opschuiven, en een woord van de dokter over waar carrière-angst eigenlijk voor dient. Zijn eigen datum, volgens zijn eigen rekensom: 2042. Hij muntte er een woord voor: de doomdate. AI-angst staat sinds 2017 in de vakliteratuur; nieuw is dat iedereen nu een doomdate heeft.
De site is bewust eerlijk over de schijnprecisie. De methodologiepagina heet "How we calculated this, and why it is wrong". De dag is theater. De volgorde waarin werk verandert, accountants vóór loodgieters, is echt.
Interviews in het Nederlands: press@howlongtillaitakesyourjob.com