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💡Your guide to building a thriving career in the new economy.
✨For the ones who heard you were “going places”— this is your compass
By @janelabrahami

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Comment “HIGH PERFORMER” to read the full Substack @readgoingplaces , because I have thoughtsssss....

If you can relate to ever saying, “I don’t understand, I’ve always gotten amazing feedback, and now I’m ‘not meeting expectations?!’” keeping reading.

One quarter you’re the person leadership points to in the all-hands. The next, you’re in a meeting being told your work has “concerns” nobody flagged before, with a 30-to-90-day clock attached and language vague enough that you can’t actually tell what “success” would even look like.

The word “gaslighting” gets thrown around too liberally these days, but I personally believe that putting a high-performer on a PIP and pointing to arbitrary new goals is a form of corporate gaslighting.

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Follow & comment MATRIX to keep reading! 👉 If you’ve been laid off in the past year and are done trying land another traditional job, you need to know about the Self-Employed Matrix, but specifically… how you can spin your corporate experience into a B2B consulting business.

The Self-Employed Matrix is my working view of all the different ways you can be self-employed these days, and there at least 15 of them. B2B Consulting is currently one of the most popular ways people make the leap from corporate job to self-employed for two reasons:

1. You’re not starting from scratch
2. You’ve already met your first clients

#selfemployed #newjob #corporatemillennial

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Going up? @readgoingplaces

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Comment “ORIGINAL” to keep reading the Substack essay. ✨

We’re really not trying to be the Content Police, and we’re not saying every creator needs a copyright lawyer on retainer. We’re saying the bar can’t be “as long as it’s not a word-for-word copy-paste, it’s fair game,” because that didn’t cut it in 9th grade English class. It should not be the standard for people’s actual livelihoods.

Original thinking is the entire asset in the creator economy.

So, maybe the question isn’t “was it word for word?”

Maybe it’s the same question your high school teacher would’ve asked: “Would this piece of content exist, in this form, if the other creator’s version didn’t exist first?”

If the honest answer is no, you know what that is.

What’s your line? Where does “inspired by” end and “you copied their homework” begin, and has this happened to you? Tell us in the comments.

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Some people say to “move in silence,” grind it out, and let the work speak for itself. I mostly agree, but what I’ve learned from creating content for 6 years is that you never know who’s watching, who’s interested, whose idea/skills/network/passion can help bring your vision to life. Unless you share it.

2027 is poised to be a transformational year for @readgoingplaces, and I have a feeling that being transparent about the process will only help me reach the right people.

Comment FUTURE to come see for yourself, October 20 at @fabriksocialspaces DUMBO, 6-8pm 🤸‍♀️✨

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🚨PLEASE READ: I have a lot more crucial nuance to add to this, so comment “QUALIFIED” to read the full article on my Substack now.

What a lot of millennials and older generations are still not willing to accept is that what we thought were going to be our competitive advantages are not competitive advantages anymore.

We were raised on a very specific deal: do well in school, get into a good college, get into an even better grad school, build a resume of recognizable names, accumulate the right credentials, and the gate would open for us. Because the world we were preparing for was a gatekept one.

This world is is actually an UNGATEKEPT one, where anyone can start a genius new business, or a best-selling Substack.

Millennials trained for survival of the most-decorate, and the current reality is survival of the scrappiest, but a lot of us still aren’t willing to take that ego hit. What do you think?

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Follow & comment “SUBSTACK” for more! If you need to quit your soul-sucking job ASAP without a backup plan, this is what I wish I had done myself before sending my resignation letter.

I would have picked a quit date that was about 4-6 weeks out so I could have enough runway to prepare. I think having that line in the sand would have taken me out of the panic, reactionary place that would have eased my burnout a bit.
I would have been a lot more honest with myself about how much savings I really needed and then cut my expenses about 25% more than I did.

I would have planned my exit from my job more as an act of self-leadership. I actually left on good terms, but I was really resentful internally, and that got in my way of doing some of the things that I know would have been higher-integrity.

And once I did quit, I would have actually like chilled out for a sec before jumped right into launching my own business.

Actually, I had already launched my business months before I quit my full-time job, but I would have taken time to actually reset after quitting and acknowledge what I’d just done before moving on so quickly.

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Comment “AMBITION” for the full article 💫❤️ I’ve wondered about my own ambition constantly since quitting corporate, because I’ve started prioritizing things that matter very deeply to me but don’t come with titles or announcements or anyone else noticing. And for a while that made me feel like I was becoming a less impressive version of myself.

But I’ve decided that Experience, Process, and Impact Ambition are legitimate — I feel more sure of my momentum than I did when I was chasing gold stars, because I’m not waiting for someone else to confirm I’m moving in the right direction.

I can feel it. And that’s enough.

The full article is live on my Substack— and I’m curious — which type of ambition are you channeling right now? Achievement, Experience, Process, or Impact? Tell me more in the comments.

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Comment “SUBSTACK” for more takes on squiggly careers, the rollercoaster that is being ambitious in your 30s+, and mild rages against the American labor market 🤙

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Meet @janelabrahami, career coach & founder of Going Places 💡

After building a career in HR at companies like NBCUniversal, Stitch Fix, and Tinder, Janel found herself facing a career identity crisis of her own. Now, she helps driven women navigate career pivots, find work that actually aligns with their values, and build careers that feel like them through 1:1 + group coaching, content, and her Going Places newsletter.

We’re so excited to feature her in episode 9 of cp on cp, our series spotlighting the creatives doing incredible work behind the scenes.

🏷️ career coaching, career pivots, career advice, personal branding, job search, creatives, career fulfillment, entrepreneurship #careercoach #careeradvice #careerchange #careergoals #personalbranding

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Comment “NOT LOOKING” + I’ll send you the full essay directly. Are you experiencing this, too?

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed that people who have lost their jobs in the past year or so are choosing not to look for new ones. They still need jobs. They still need the income. Opting out of the job search process is not out of luxury or privilege.

Instead, I believe they’re rejecting the traditional job search process before the job search can reject them.

At first I thought I was watching a handful of outliers cope in their own weird way.
Then I started asking around.
Then I started doing the math from my own two job searches in six years.

And now I don’t think this is a coping mechanism at all. I think it’s a rational response to a broken system with abysmal return on investment.

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Comment “HIGH PERFORMER” to read the full Substack @readgoingplaces , because I have thoughtsssss....

If you can relate to ever saying, “I don’t understand, I’ve always gotten amazing feedback, and now I’m ‘not meeting expectations?!’” keeping reading.

One quarter you’re the person leadership points to in the all-hands. The next, you’re in a meeting being told your work has “concerns” nobody flagged before, with a 30-to-90-day clock attached and language vague enough that you can’t actually tell what “success” would even look like.

The word “gaslighting” gets thrown around too liberally these days, but I personally believe that putting a high-performer on a PIP and pointing to arbitrary new goals is a form of corporate gaslighting.

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