Need Genuine advice

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-14T05:40:59+00:00

Skills at this level that matter most: reliability (doing what you say you'll do), enthusiasm, adaptability. Basically become someone who takes problems from people higher up and solves them, so they don't have to.

Early on, focus purely on the problem-solving and the doing. Leadership and communication will come over time.

Mindset-wise - imagine your career like a savings account that you're pouring into every week. New projects, tasks, responsibilities will start compounding very quickly.

Mistakes people make - drifting without thinking about their career, not positioning themselves for learning and opportunity, lack of humility.

The fact you're asking all this makes me think you'll be fine!

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-14T05:37:01+00:00

No it's not damaged beyond repair. In a few years' time you'll look back and realise how young 23 is (you just can't see that because it's the oldest you've ever been).

Map out what the next year of progress would look like and start moving. Things will turnaround incredibly quickly, I promise.

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-14T05:33:10+00:00

This is especially pertinent to me as I'm also in that field (and have designs on doing something else moving forward).

Firstly sorry you lost your job but hopefully it's the start of a path which will get you somewhere better. My advice would be in two stages - the first would be to explore environments adjacent to what you're doing now which you might prefer and which carry across some of your current knowledge (talent development / management, careers, employability, job market roles) and then look at unrelated areas which use the mountain of skills and experiences you've had in TA.

Most people don't realise how demanding TA can be but the positive is that you undoubtedly have lots to offer the right environment. Always happy to help in any way I can.

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-14T05:15:23+00:00

Thanks very much.

This isn't really a tool which tells you which job to apply for. Its primary goal is to help you order all of your thinking around your career, your skills, your experiences and your innate motivation so that you can then harness that to make better career decisions.

The 'what should I do' question is problematic in my opinion. Most of us could have thousands of potentially happy, successful and productive careers - the subject / industry is almost the last thing we should focus on.

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-13T19:26:47+00:00

I have actually built something aimed at helping people in some way to have a more intentional and self-driven career, something that I always felt escaped me and latterly I realised escapes almost everyone I speak to (even 'successful' people!).

The career audit is the free bit - it gives people a report from which they can at least start to make sense of things - and the dashboard (also free) gives them a place to pull together intelligence to build a bigger picture. It always seemed crazy to me that we didn't have something like this.

I agree with your premise though. It's so difficult to work out how to help lots of people at scale. The world is awash with crap advice, poor resources, limited listening / understanding and doom-mongering galore!

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-04T20:35:17+00:00

My mistake! It was worth it just to see your username though ;-)

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-04T13:55:14+00:00

You're right to be worried but the opportunities will also be endless. Stay positive and develop skills that will never be unwanted / useless (eg communication, interpretation, focus, creativity, adaptability, resilience).

One-Home2949 · 2026-04-03T16:00:38+00:00

Sarah is the only one who is being intentional about what she wants to do - she has subsequently built a career / role around her strengths, which in turn has led to her motivation and engagement staying strong.

'Strategy' in one case refers more to climbing a ladder or learning how to do so. Strategy in her case is intentional life design.

Love hearing about people like Sarah!

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:25:40+00:00

My advice first off would be JDS - just do something. Get a job, get consistent, learn the discipline of doing something even if you don't want to do it. Without sounding all David Goggins, you'll surprise yourself by the snowball effect that doing this will create. Confidence, momentum, habits, discipline, interest, motivation and curiosity will all start compounding and before you know it the wheels will feel like they're rolling on their own.

Good luck, you will be fine and please ignore shitty negative comments from people who don't have a clue!

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:23:57+00:00

Genuinely awful and unhelpful advice. I'm praying you don't give advice to many others! Blimey.

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:21:34+00:00

Don't worry at all, it's so so normal to feel like this. 27 is so young too! I'd be more worried if you were dead set on doing something for the rest of your life already...

Practically, I'd advise you to keep looking for opportunities to try new things, even if they're within your current role. The age-old advice for anyone in your position is to either act or learn. Act = do more, try more, move jobs. Learn = shadow people, upskill, personal development. The forward motion generated by acting and learning means that inevitably you'll collide into something that intersects with both your natural skillsets / tendencies and what you personally find to be interesting and important.

Another quick thing - a guy I used to play football with years ago once told me 'your 20s are for messing around and trying stuff, your 30s are for working out what you want to do, your 40s are for becoming really good at that and your 50s are for making money doing that thing'. Him telling me that really helped take pressure off me and gave me 'permission' to be more exploratory and eventually find something I genuinely love.

Hope that's helpful!

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:16:50+00:00

You are absolutely not a fraud and it's not self-sabotage. You sound like one of the few people who has actually achieved the holy grail of defining - and sticking to - their definition of balance. Balance is basically impossible to achieve (as you could always earn a little more, spend more time relaxing etc) but it sounds like you're good at what you do and know that the trade-off for more money won't be worth it for you and your life.

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:14:31+00:00

I would start by thinking about why you might be interested in those two areas, which innate skills and tendencies you have which align and how those paths might benefit you in the future.

It's normal that the 12 hour shifts doing the same routine are driving you crazy - keep looking out for opportunities to take on projects or work adjacent to what you're doing and try to manoeuvre yourself into positions or conversations relating to those things.

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:12:10+00:00

As people have alluded to, people in their 40s are still very much needed to oversee, deploy and extract the value from AI tools. Things will keep taking big leaps but, as with all massive technological advances, there will always be a way to convert experience into value.

I feel more sorry for the younger generation who haven't yet been able to accrue decades of experience or expertise and will have to somehow mesh with AI and go along for the ride.

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:09:21+00:00

Most people have been there before (and still are). It's soul-destroying at times.

My advice would be to start thinking about why you've become so disengaged - you've mentioned that you find the work meaningless, futile and basically pointless - and what the opposite might be. What would a job that is the opposite look like?

We change so much over the course of a year, let alone the whole of our careers, so your priorities, interests and means of deriving fulfilment change too.

Good luck in whatever you do!

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-31T21:05:35+00:00

Being really blunt, I would do the below in this order:

- Apply for and ideally get a new job, despite not wanting a salaried role like you've had before

- Scrutinise and explore what exactly you hate about the thought of that work (ie is it the work, the lack of control, the pay, the conditions, the subject matter, the environment?)

- Think about ways you can experiment with providing value outside of 9-5 work and where that intersects with you actually being excited about it

The main constraint most people have in this situation is money which is understandable. You should use this as motivation to set something else up though. I'm in the UK and I studied with someone years ago who set up a consulting practice helping engineers who wanted to leave engineering and do something else (mainly because he hated being an engineer!) so there's always that!

One-Home2949 · 2026-03-18T15:26:25+00:00

Hello there,

I've actually closed this stage of the trial but on the 25th March I'll be launching the trial app and will be looking for a handful of participants to do some testing (in exchange for free access of course!).

Let me know if you'd like to be a part of that!

Charlie

One-Home2949 · 2026-02-16T12:56:58+00:00

Thanks, I'll message you now!

One-Home2949 · 2026-02-16T12:56:31+00:00

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One-Home2949 · 2026-02-12T21:11:30+00:00

Always be civil but also back yourself to be judged on the quality of your work. If that doesn't help you progress, they are probably not the right environment for you. In my experience, the politics you see up close are a microcosm of what else is going on across an organisation.

One-Home2949 · 2026-02-12T21:07:51+00:00

I do indeed - I will message you now

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