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Here, I write about leaving meaningful work, responding to layoffs and industry contraction, and understanding how hiring works for people whose careers don’t fit the standard playbook.
This isn’t a space for hacks or motivational slogans. It’s a place to understand what’s happening and move forward with structure, clarity, and longterm thinking.
Career stability is a skill you build and bring with you, wherever you go.
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Leaving Meaningful Work
Ready to leave meaningful work? A clear, practical guide to leaving without burning it all down.
If You’re Waiting to Feel Ready for a Career Change, Read This
There’s a version of stuck that looks like preparation. Everything is ready. And you are not applying.
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When You Can DIY a Career Change and When You Shouldn’t
I'm going to say something most career coaches won't: not everyone needs professional support to change careers. Some people figure it out on their own. They research the target, build the materials, run the search, and land somewhere good without paying anyone to...
Why Thinking About Your Career Change Longer Isn’t Helping
Why Thinking About Your Career Change Longer Isn’t Helping
What Career Changers Get Wrong About Transferable Skills
The skills transfer. That part is usually true. What doesn't transfer automatically is the language: the way you've always described the work, the titles that made sense in your old context, and the framing that everyone in your previous field understood immediately...
Career Change
When You Can DIY a Career Change and When You Shouldn’t
I'm going to say something most career coaches won't: not everyone needs professional support to...
Why Thinking About Your Career Change Longer Isn’t Helping
Why Thinking About Your Career Change Longer Isn’t Helping
What Career Changers Get Wrong About Transferable Skills
The skills transfer. That part is usually true. What doesn't transfer automatically is the...
Why Leaving Meaningful Work Feels Like a Moral Failure (and Isn’t)
People leave meaningful work for all kinds of reasons. Burnout. Pay. Bad leadership. A field...
How to Use a Layoff as a Reset (Without Making Panic Decisions)
If you've made it through the first weeks after a layoff – handled the legal and financial pieces,...
You Can Care About the World and Want a Different Job
There's a story a lot of people in mission driven work tell themselves about why they chose it....
Layoff
How to Use a Layoff as a Reset (Without Making Panic Decisions)
If you've made it through the first weeks after a layoff – handled the legal and financial pieces,...
When Your Industry Is Contracting and You’re Still In It
There's a particular kind of stuck that doesn't feel like stuck. The job is still there. You're...
Your Layoff Has Nothing to Do With Your Worth (and Why That Doesn’t Make It Easier)
The thing people say when someone gets laid off, said with well intentioned kindness because it's...
What to Do in the First Two Weeks After a Layoff (That Isn’t Panic-Apply)
The instinct after a layoff is to start applying immediately. Update the resume tonight, get it...