#career-evolution

#career-evolution

Ulysses was a UX designer - or a "Product Designer," or maybe a "Digital Experience Architect," or a "Product Experience Manager," depending on which day you asked him. Currently, however, he felt more like a Figma monkey. He sat in his Scandinavian designer chair, bathed in the orangey light of a dual-monitor setup (because you gotta filter out that blue light), reading yet another hot take about how AI had rendered his so-called career - which was kind of a joke, anyway - obsolete.

If you watched 54 Ultra's music video for "Upside Down" and came away thinking it was a relic from 1980s music programs like "Solid Gold" or "Night Tracks" - you'd be forgiven for making the assumption. Aside from the 25-year-old's vintage wardrobe, hairstyle, and 'stache that harks to that decade, the song itself - a silky, boppy ballad that channels the energy of groups like the Chi-Lites or solo acts like Johnnie Taylor -

"Before, work was everything," Rhimes, 55, tells Bustle over Zoom. "I [now] feel like I'm much more of a three-dimensional, rounded person. I have a work life, I have a personal life, I have a social life. I get to spend all the time I want being a mom. It's about finding a life that's more in balance."