I assumed a tech article and first read "AI extracts roadmap" like https://mapwith.ai or https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps ;)

Are people really planning their carrier like this? Isn't it more that you either work for some company nearby, or a company you know by some luck or explore the AI/ML topics you or your professor likes and you got stuck? (or you start disliking it and try hard to find something else)?