Guides
Working
Changing careers, leaving a job, and the parts in between.
Change careers without starting over
The bridge role, the one skill that carries, the eight-week proof, the resume that leads with it, and where the market data says the next field is hiring.
Contract or full time
The arithmetic that compares a day rate to a salary, what the employer is buying in each, the hidden costs on both sides, and who each one suits.
Explain why you left
One sentence for a layoff, three sentences for a firing, what never to say, how the background check sees it, and how to practise the answer until it is boring.
How long to stay in a job
The two-year floor and why it exists, when leaving early is right, the pattern that reads as a flag, the pattern that reads as growth, and what the data says people do.
Quit your job well
The order of operations, the two-paragraph letter, the conversation with your manager, the counteroffer, the notice period, and how to leave so the door stays open.
See the layoff coming
The twelve signals, from the public ones in the filings and the funding data to the private ones in the calendar, and what to do in the ninety days before the announcement.
The jobs AI is least likely to take
What the data shows about which roles are shrinking and which are not, the three things that make a job hard to automate, and how to move your own work toward them.
Your job search after a layoff
The first week, the money, the one sentence about the layoff, the resume updated while the numbers are fresh, and how to run the search when the whole sector was cut at once.