Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where every week we talk about a

different topic to do with work and discuss ideas for action and advice that we hope will help you

and it always helps us to navigate our squiggly careers. And as we approach the end of this year

we thought we'd press pause and reflect on all of the things that have happened and share a few of our highs, lows, some happy moments and some things that we've learned along the way. And we're also two bits of news. We are together for this podcast, which is a rarity because we normally do it virtually. So that's always quite fun. I've got popcorn. Helen's got nothing. She's not even got a drink. I had lunch though. No, I've got three drinks and some popcorn

and you're just saying that with nothing. I see there because point two is that we've not told each

other the answers to the seven questions that we have developed to reflect on this year. So these

answers are going to be a bit of a surprise for you and for us. I feel like

we did a good interview review live. We are and we're doing it in person. So I haven't even got

the anonymity of being on like behind Zoom or something. So this could be my eyes on screen the

whole time on my notes. No eye contact. So this could be a this could be an interesting episode

everybody. We do want it to be useful for you as well. Useful is one of our values. So this could be, this could be an interesting episode, everybody. We do want it to be

useful for you as well. Useful is one of our values. So the pod sheet that accompanies this week's

episode, you'll be able to download that. It will have the questions. And we thought we'd also

include some of our favorite recommendations of things to read, watch and listen to that we

have engaged with this year.

So that's what will be on the pod sheet. You can get the link for that in the show notes.

Or if you can't find that, just email us at Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com.

So we're starting with a warm-up. Is this an official question or not an official question?

No, this is like my warm-up question, Sarah. Just to ease us into the seven questions. The warm-up question is the year in a word.

And are we allowed to describe why we chose that? Or do we literally just have to say it?

Yeah, we're not just going to say everyone. Are you already getting annoyed? But I'm like,

can I, how much leeway have I got? Can you see that Sarah's not had that much input into these

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