HeyJaredGood Job!
Actionable advice to build a happier and more fulfilling career (plus lessons from building a personal brand and scaling a 6-figure creator business). Proud generalist with a squiggly career spanning recruiting, marketing, and content.
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Your career will look messy before it feels meaningful (opens the original)
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I have a bad habit.And you might have it, too.Whenever I meet someone whose work I really admire, with an impressive career or dazzling array of achievements, I mentally start rewriting and simplifying their story for them. In my version, they had a plan. A perfect plan in fact.Thanks for reading Good Job!! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" type="
Get Unstuck: your early career is for curiosity, not certainty (opens the original)
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This essay was created in partnership with LinkedIn as part of our ‘Get Unstuck’ series, where I help early-career people work through their biggest career confusions and squeeze more juice out of LinkedIn in the process. The advice and opinions here are all my own.It’s a Sunday afternoon when I open my laptop for my first call with Annie.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oi3Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack
Pursuing your passion won’t protect you from burnout (opens the original)
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I’d be willing to bet my entire business that at some point in your career exploration journey you’ve heard the advice, “just follow your passion.” I hope you didn’t listen.I get why you’d want to. The idea of devoting your professional career to follow your passion is alluring at first, and the advice isn’t terrible on its own. We should do work that interests us. But it turns insidious when it comes to mean that work should look like waking up and working whenever you want, earning money effor
Why you keep picking the wrong job (opens the original)
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The unending cycle of jobs that leave you drained isn’t bad luck. It’s what happens when you skip the work of diagnosing what you actually need.It’s unsurprising that we often find ourselves with the back-at-square-one feeling that we aren’t quite in the right industry, role, or team, with no idea what else to change.As a part of my current interview series with Robert Half, I had the pleasure of speaking with hiring expert and career educator Sho Dewan. We spoke about how how you can start to u
What I'd Tell Anyone Starting a Portfolio Career (opens the original)
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You already have the skills and experience you need to create a career you love.But the way you’ve learnt to structure work is holding you back from reaching it.When you’ve spent years studying, up-skilling, actioning feedback, and building experience in your industry, it can feel like a kick in the guts to still have that unsettled, uncertain feeling about work. You know you’re not lazy, flaky, or unambitious. You genuinely want work to be good: satisfying, exciting, expansive, financially rewa
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