The Accidental Career

How do people find fulfilling careers? How did they get there? Why did they choose those paths? How were their paths shaped? How much of it was planned? How much of it was accidental?


With these questions in mind, this book started as a simple, crowdfunded project:


4 months. 70 interviews. 1 book to shed light into how people “fell” into careers they love rather than walked into careers they planned.


The result is a select collection of full-length interviews with individuals who discovered their careers through an unplanned morphological process rather than in a singular trajectory with foreseeable steps and landings. The inspiration for this book comes from personal experience (architectural designer, McKinsey consultant, internet entrepreneur, and now writer), as well as countless stories of individuals who labored in uninspiring jobs yet never had the courage or opportunity to break the mold. In such, the objective of this book is to highlight how regular people have found linkages in disparate life experiences and have connected the dots into fulfilling careers.


Interviewees include:

- Consultant  turned  world adventurer and 4-time world record holder

- Rocket scientist  turned  country managing director of JP Morgan

- Professional motorcycle racer  turned  lawyer

- Advertising professional  turned  food truck owner

- Banker  turned  condom tailor

- Paper salesman  turned  sports marketing pioneer

- Comedian  turned  gold expert and financial columnist

- ... and more!