Career
Career decisions, made deliberately
Choosing a major, leaving a role, or working out what staying relevant will require as your field changes. Costed honestly, with the trade-offs on the table.
Tell us what's going on ↗
Is this you
Choosing a direction
- You are picking a major and everyone around you has a strong opinion.
- You are about to commit years to something on somebody else's reasoning.
- You want a first direction, not a list of jobs that pay well.
Changing one
- You have outgrown the role and cannot build a clean case for leaving it.
- You are quietly unsure what relevance will require as AI resets your field.
- You are weighing building something of your own and want it costed honestly.
- You are caught between what is expected of you and your own read on the next move.
58% of young adults aged 18 to 25 said they had lacked meaning or purpose in their lives in the past month. Half said that "not knowing what to do with my life" was damaging their mental health.1
It is the most common reason people arrive at this track, and it is not a character flaw. Nobody sits you down and teaches you how to choose.
Footnote
- Making Caring Common, Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Edge: Understanding and Preventing Young Adults' Mental Health Challenges (2023), from a nationally representative survey conducted in December 2022. ↩
Everyone had an opinion about my career. Nobody asked what it was for.
The problem, in the words people use for it.
Everyone had an opinion about your career. Nobody asked what it was for.
That is the work. Not options ranked by salary, but the question underneath them, answered first so the options can be judged against something.
- What the career is for, specific enough to rule options in and out.
- The exit, if there is one: the case for it, the timing, and what it costs.
- Relevance as the work changes, and what you would have to become to keep it.
- The money side of the decision, separated from the identity side of it.
What the engagement is
- One-to-one sessions across a set arc, agreed with you at the start.
- A fuller assessment before the first session, so session one is not spent on background.
- Work between sessions, including the parts of the decision you have been avoiding.
- Private-pay, and it ends.
Make it a decision, not a drift.
Tell us what you are weighing up and what is making it hard. We will come back within two working days.
Tell us what's going on ↗ Or book a 20-minute call