My career ambitions have left the building

I don’t need to look very far to find a whole lot of people working in careers that they stumbled into because it was convenient or easy or afforded them a good salary.

Because of serious topics like student debts and a housing crisis that affects an entire generation, I didn’t think of my career in a linear way because I knew I wouldn’t have the same trajectory as my baby-boomer parents.

1. drop out of undergrad or grad school (for non-academics)


2. when i look at their resume i feel embarrassed for myself


3. have 6 months+ periods of unemployment/underemployment


4. don’t give up (eventually)


5. see the future


6. don’t settle for proxies, zoom all the way in & out

On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It’s to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing.

On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It’s to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing.