★ CheckpointCheckpoint: your first workday with AI

That's the course. Before the questions, look at what you've got now.

What you can do after this course

The list is short, but every line is something that wasn't there a week ago.

• set up an account and tell the real app from a fake
• talk to an AI instead of typing keywords: situation, constraints, result
• refuse the first answer — ask for shorter, a different tone, with examples
• configure it for yourself once and stop repeating context in every chat
• show it photos and documents, talk out loud, listen to the answer
• keep your chats tidy and come back to old conversations
• catch invented facts and links before they travel further than you

One day with AI

The questions below are put together as a single day: a morning email, a fix to the tone, a doubtful reference in a text for a client, an evening brainstorm. There's nothing new in them — it was all in the lessons, only now the tasks come mixed rather than one at a time, the way they do in life.

If you get stuck on one, that isn't a failure — it's a pointer to the lesson worth rereading. The explanation after each answer will tell you which.

And if there's no working day

The questions are built around a working day because that's the easiest way to tie them into one story. If you don't have a job right now, the same skills add up to a different week — and no smaller a one.

• Monday: a CV rewritten in human language, where a career break reads as a fact rather than an apology.
• Tuesday: a cover letter for one specific vacancy — one template, different emphases for each.
• Wednesday: interview practice out loud: «you're the interviewer, ask questions one at a time and then go through my answers». Nobody watches you stumble.
• Thursday: pulling a job ad apart — what's genuinely required, what was added for decoration, and what you're missing.
• Friday: a letter to an institution, a bill with a line nobody can explain, instructions in tiny print — the things that pile up while you're busy with everything else.

And if there's no job hunt either, the week builds itself out of ordinary life, and it's no less real: a letter to an institution that has to be firm and polite, a bill with a line nobody can explain, instructions in tiny print, a trip to the grandchildren to plan, questions for the doctor before an appointment. The skills are identical: context, editing the first answer, checking facts. Only the person the result is addressed to changes.

What to do tomorrow

One habit matters more than all ten lessons: make a rule of opening the AI before you start doing the thing by hand. Not after you get stuck — before. An email, a plan, a table, a document to work through: draft first, your edit second. Within a week that stops being a decision and becomes a reflex, and that's when everything you read here starts giving time back.

And when you want more, there's a third part on how ChatGPT differs from Claude and Gemini and which model suits which job. That one isn't about buttons — it's about choosing.

Four questions to go. Good luck. 🚀