The Unexpected Career Podcast
Real people’s stories to inspire at every twist and turn of building a career and a life.
Did you know what you wanted to be “when you grew up” when you were small? Is that what you are doing now? Most people don’t and yet there is so much pressure at every milestone in life to know exactly what you want to be doing and make the right decision, as if there are only a few “right” ways to create a life.
While there are cultural differences and systemic barriers that create real roadblocks and heighten this pressure for some, most individual decisions do not set your fate in stone. Most people I know have found themselves in a particular industry largely by accident and have built careers from there; taking steps forward, sideways and complete pivots around great (or terrible) bosses, company cultures that encouraged (or discouraged) them, changing life circumstances and evolving values. I’m excited to share the stories of people who have built their career and life on the winding road.
The Unexpected Career Podcast
Season 4 Trailer
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In Season 4 we share 10 more discussions with real people about their career journeys and the twists, turns, pivots and lessons learned along the way.
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Season four of the Unexpected Career Podcast is almost here in season four. I'll be sharing 10 more discussions with real people about their career journeys and the twists, turns, pivots, and lessons they've learned along the way. Follow in your favorite podcast app to be notified when new episodes become available. In the meantime, here's a sneak peek where some of my guests talk about getting those first jobs after graduation.
NicoleI don't know about you, Megan, but when you come out of school you're also like, you just need a job. You need a job immediately you realize there's goals and there's dreams, and there's also the need to eat.
SusanI'd had the dream of living and working in London. So I tried and I tried for sales jobs but none of those things worked and the job that I eventually got was not really because of my degree, but because I'd spent five years working in Woolworths,
Benspeaking of trial and error like a lot of people who graduate college, your first job. You go out there and you get sold a bill of goods of what you're doing and you find out very quickly you end up in a sales position. Under a different title, under a different name.
SheminaI went to the final round and I didn't get it and I was devastated and literally was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do with my life. My brother-in-law, he's like, well, we're looking for people. Why don't you just come and hang out and just, you know, shadow us for a day and see if it's something you'd wanna do. And so I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna try it. And I'll do this while I look for other true consumer marketing opportunities.
RobWell, some of the needs must and I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew that applying for graduate training programs would be great if you could get into a good business. But I didn't have that mark instantly. I mean, it was so old fashioned.
VeleraDuring the summers of college, I interned at a company that I eventually got an offer from once I graduated, but I decided to relocate to. Detroit, Michigan at the time I had family there. And so that meant going from having a job already lined up from school to basically starting from scratch.
