How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why

Our career path is how we spend our time, how we support our lifestyles, how we make our impact, and even sometimes how we define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track.

Hey readers! Quick note before we jump in: This is a post about something I’ve been wanting to write about forever: careers. Society tells us a lot of things about what we should want in a career and what the possibilities are—which is weird because I’m pretty sure society knows very little about any of this. When it comes to careers, society is like your great uncle who traps you at holidays and goes on a 15-minute mostly incoherent unsolicited advice monologue, and you tune out almost the whole time because it’s super clear he has very little idea what he’s talking about and that everything

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• How to find the right career for you | 80,000 Hours80000hours.org
• Why I do what I dojocelynemurphy.github.io
• 10 things I wish I knew about careers when I startedmollyg.substack.com
• How to figure out what to do with your lifejulian.com
• How to Choose Your College Degreegiansegato.com
• 10 things I wish I knew about careers when I startedmollyg.substack.com
• Why most people pick the wrong careerfastcompany.com
• ambition as a fingerprintmindmine.substack.com
• What Do You Want? - Calvin Rossercalvinrosser.com
• Career capital: how to invest in yourself | 80,000 Hours80000hours.org
• Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Jobthatvastvariety.substack.com
• 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purposemarkmanson.net