940: How to Find the Best Job for you that Actually Exists with Lauren McGoodwin

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Lauren McGoodwin challenges the notion of the “dream job” and makes the case for pursuing the “good-enough” job.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why the dream job actually doesn’t exist

2) The true drivers of happiness at work

3) Why to become invaluable–not indispensable

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— ABOUT LAUREN —

Lauren founded Career Contessa in 2013 after experiencing a gap in career development resources for women who might be job searching, soul searching, leading and managing, or trying to find new ways to advance within their careers. With women accounting for more than 50% of the workforce and the workforce being less defined than ever before, it seemed crazy (and outdated) that a resource for us didn't exist.

Fast-forward to today, Career Contessa is now the largest online career site built inclusively for women. Lauren is also author of Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose (2020), co-host of The Career Contessa podcast, and an educator/speaker on a variety of career topics.

Formerly, Lauren was a University Recruiter for Hulu focused on hiring, employer branding, and program management. Lauren has a Bachelors in Education from the University of Oregon and a Masters in Communication Management from the University of Southern California where she wrote her thesis on millennials and career resources.

When not Contessa-ing, you can find Lauren spending time with her family in Redondo Beach, CA where she lives with her husband and daughter.

• Book: Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose

• LinkedIn: Lauren McGoodwin

• Podcast: Career Contessa

• Website: LaurenMcGoodwin.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:07.0	It is my view on the working world that there is no such thing as a dream job.
0:11.0	You're looking for this thing that doesn't exist and so your expectations
0:14.4	are consistently misaligned with reality.
0:18.8	Carers are long and windy and you take U-turns and left turns and right turns and up and down it's not this linear career path
0:28.1	Confidence is not something you're born with it's built by taking action so nothing's's going to just come to you. You have to have the confidence and the willingness to try something in order to start getting traction.
0:40.0	That's Lauren McGoodwin. She's the founder of Career Contessa, one of the largest online career sites, and co-host of The Career
0:47.2	Contessa Podcast. Her book, Power Moves, How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of of purpose offers actionable advice, tools, and stories on how to build a meaningful career on your terms.
0:59.0	And it's also handy for gentlemen, fellas.
1:01.0	So you'll learn, one, why the dream job doesn't actually exist, two, the true drivers of happiness at work, and three, why to become invaluable and not indispensable.
1:10.0	I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to Be Awesome at your job and now here's Lauren.
1:14.3	Lauren, welcome to How to Be Awesome at your job.
1:16.8	Hi Pete, thanks for having me.
1:18.8	Well I am super excited to dig into your wisdom and could you start us off by sharing so you've
1:25.9	been in this career contest a game for a while great brand I've known about it for a
1:30.1	while existed even before how to be awesome at your job. So kudos on a long run here.
1:37.1	Can you share with us a particularly surprising or counterintuitive piece of career advice that you've come to learn and adopt and share
1:48.0	during your brain as the career Contessa.
1:50.3	Yeah, absolutely.
1:51.8	We've been around for 10 years. I've talked to a lot of successful, very fulfilled people. I think the biggest misconception, and I'm sort of very much on-brand for that millennial woman who was striving for perfect was the
2:04.8	dream job does not exist it's a myth it's a myth that kind of keeps you perpetually stuck
2:09.7	so that's probably the biggest one from talking and basically having the job that I do,
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