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Are You Building a Career, or Just Getting Promoted?
Ambition, ladders, money, and the uncomfortable possibility that professional progress can move you further away from the life you actually wanted.
What Does a Product Manager Actually Do All Day?
One of us thought product management was just being bossy with slides. Then we invited someone who actually does it, and none of us were sure what we do all day anymore.
I Quit My Job at 29. Was I Brave or Foolish?
A guest who left a safe, respectable career with no plan B. We spend an hour deciding whether they are a cautionary tale or the only person in the room making sense.
Why Did Nobody Tell Us About These Careers?
User research, climate finance, technical writing, commercial arbitration. We read out job titles we did not know existed at twenty-three and ask who gets told about these options.
Do You Actually Want Success, or Just Recognition?
One of us admits they would take the applause over the achievement. Nobody in the room comes out of this conversation looking particularly noble.
Maybe You Do Not Hate Your Job
On burnout, identity, and the possibility that the problem is not the work. It is the life the work quietly requires.
Can Ambition and Contentment Live in the Same House?
Is being grateful for your life the same as settling for it? We do not agree. At one point somebody uses the phrase spiritually lazy and it gets a bit loud.
What I Wish I Had Known Before Choosing This Career
Three honest post-mortems on the choices we made at nineteen, twenty-three and twenty-seven. None of us would choose exactly the same way twice.
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