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.
Published 25 June 2026
About this conversation
Most of us chose our careers from a very small menu. In this episode we expand the menu, exploring roles that exist in the gaps between industries, the paths people stumble into accidentally, and why some options only become visible once you know someone already doing them.
“You cannot want what you do not know exists.”
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