Ep 1 – How to Stop Wasting Your Career (and Start Owning Your 80,000 Hours)
Update: 2025-08-04
Description
A wake-up call for your working life: understand your 80,000 hours and why career ownership starts now.
Welcome to the first episode of the Career Clarity mini-series.
Over the next six episodes, we’ll guide you through a practical framework to help you take ownership of your career, define success on your own terms, and build work that fits you — not the other way around.
In this first episode, we’re talking about time.
You’ll spend roughly 80,000 hours at work across your life — more than with your family, more than sleeping. So how do you make those hours count?
We explore:
We also touch on why it’s never too late to shift gears — even if you’re 20 years in.
You can pause the episode as you go to reflect, or just listen through and come back later. If you’d like extra support, there’s a companion workbook available to buy via the link in the show notes.
This is the start of a short, practical journey to help you get clear on what matters — and to use that clarity to shape a more fulfilling working life.
To access the workbook or book a 121 visit www.thecareerequation.com/clarity
Find out more:
• Erica Sosna on LinkedIn
• Zoë Schofield on LinkedIn
Welcome to the first episode of the Career Clarity mini-series.
Over the next six episodes, we’ll guide you through a practical framework to help you take ownership of your career, define success on your own terms, and build work that fits you — not the other way around.
In this first episode, we’re talking about time.
You’ll spend roughly 80,000 hours at work across your life — more than with your family, more than sleeping. So how do you make those hours count?
We explore:
- Why most people fall into their careers, and how to start choosing differently
- The idea of “career drift” vs. career design
- How to uncover the success scripts you’ve internalised — and whether they’re really yours
- A reflection exercise to help define what success looks and feels like to you, now
We also touch on why it’s never too late to shift gears — even if you’re 20 years in.
You can pause the episode as you go to reflect, or just listen through and come back later. If you’d like extra support, there’s a companion workbook available to buy via the link in the show notes.
This is the start of a short, practical journey to help you get clear on what matters — and to use that clarity to shape a more fulfilling working life.
To access the workbook or book a 121 visit www.thecareerequation.com/clarity
Find out more:
• Erica Sosna on LinkedIn
• Zoë Schofield on LinkedIn
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