Ok, that headline isn’t true — we care about your career! But broadly, one of the biggest differences between school and work is that school is far more straightforward. 10th grade follows 9th. If you do certain things, you will move up, and it’s very clear what you are supposed to do next. But for many careers, it’s not clear at all what is the next step. You have to think about where you want to be and how you might make a plan to get there.
In today’s episode of Best of Both Worlds, Sarah interviews Erika Ayers Badan, the former CEO of Barstool Sports. She is the author of the new book Nobody Cares About Your Career, with lots of advice on how to take charge of your working life. She and Sarah discuss failure, boss challenges, coming back from maternity leave, and more.
In the Q&A, a listener asks about using a career coach. Are they useful, and if so, how do you find a good one?
Please give the episode a listen! As always we welcome ratings and reviews — more reviews help us convince potential guests that we’re worth their time. Also a heads up that the BOBW Patreon Community will be meeting by Zoom this Thursday to discuss Jodi Wellman’s book You Only Die Once. Membership is $9/month and you can sign up here.
I actually also wonder where the habit of writing like “Nobody told me I could do this” came from.
Like Ms. Erika Ayers Badan, I, too, can surely see in my career that I’m the one who can make a difference in my life and in my job and in my career and that I’m ultimately responsible.
Ms. Erika Ayers Badan listed challenges that women uniquely face in workplaces, which I can also discuss with her in detail after I reach out to her.
I noticed that you’ll rollout the Better Workday Challenge, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. I wonder if you specifically designed the Better Workday Challenge based on the book that Ms. Erika Ayers Badan wrote. If that is not the case, you can also tell me about it.