Career Changing in your 20s
This podcast is about the ups and downs of career changing in the growth-filled decade of our 20s. New episodes Monday mornings!
The amount of uncertainty and job instability from recent mass layoffs as well as increasingly more career choices to choose from can cause young professionals to feel “behind” or unsure of what their true passion is or if the path that they are on is the right one for them. But in these tough environments comes a lot of opportunities, flexibility, and the potential to take our careers and our lives in any direction we want. We talk about different philosophies and mindsets around careers and professional topics, such as how to overcome a recent layoff and how to choose a job based on your own definition of “success” and “happiness” rather than based on money, external validation, and/or purported prestige. Lastly, we will focus on guest speakers to talk about their own experiences navigating career discovery in their 20s to hear a wide variety of perspectives and lessons learned.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2023
10. Augmented/virtual reality (technical vs. business roles, consumer vs. B2B applications, industry dynamics, AI influences)
Very excited to share this episode with my college friend Jake Schwartz who knows a ton about AR/VR and has worked on both the technical product development side and commercial/business side of VR co…
9. Cleantech 101: carbon accounting, startups vs. large company dynamics, finding passion for sustainability
Listen in to Jackson, a carbon data analyst at a cleantech startup, describe his journey into cleantech, how today's startups and industry companies view sustainability, and tips on how to break into…
8. Lessons from Big Oil, transition to cleantech
Excited to share this really insightful episode with Lexi, a former process engineer at one of the top US oil & gas producers and now an R&D engineer at a cleantech startup. Listen as she shares the …
7. Life as a professional poker player (non-traditional careers series)
Listen to hear all about the life of Fred, a net winning professional poker player based in LA who chose to play poker as his full-time job out of undergrad instead of a traditional, salaried corpora…
6. Product UX design, founding Design Buddies, and creating lifestyle content
Grace Ling is a current Product UX Designer at Electronic Arts while also being the founder of Design Buddies, an online design community housed in Discord with over 50k members. She also draws and c…
5. Redefining career "success" and "happiness": choosing to stay in consulting over private equity
Excited to share this insightful episode with my friend Yunnie who had a recent tough career transition decision on whether to stay in management consulting or exit into a private equity firm in thei…
4. Consulting vs. Industry
How do you weigh choosing between a management consulting vs. industry role out of undergrad or post MBA? What hard vs. soft skills do you learn in consulting vs. industry roles? How does the type of…
3. Overcoming a layoff: Consulting to BizOps to PM (Part 2/2)
Our first guest Minh, former management consultant and now product manager at a late stage startup, discusses how he overcame a layoff from a startup in mid 2022: how he overcame the initial shock, h…
2. Mass layoffs and its impact on those just starting their careers (Part 1/2)
Our guest Minh, former management consultant and now product manager at a late stage startup, and I talk about our take on recent mass US tech layoffs and COVID layoffs, and how such large-scale layo…
1. Career Changing in your 20s
This podcast is about the ups and downs of career changing in the growth-filled decade of our 20’s. The amount of uncertainty and job instability from recent mass layoffs as well as increasingly more…