Career Composer
Career Composer is a career and life advice podcast “Helping YOU, professionals under 30, navigate your careers with a music-themed twist!” Truly the first of its kind, Career Composer mixes expert career advice with fresh music variety that leaves listeners feeling inspired and motivated to take action.
So how does this work exactly? Your host, Erin Ahart, wipes the dust off traditional career concepts and uses music analogies, current events, and storytelling to explain the career advice she provides every day. As a full-time career counselor, Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and pianist, she knows that leaning into our passions is the key to figuring out what we’re meant to do.
Did you know that a cover letter can be formatted like a love letter, or that Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms had a steamy love affair? Are you deciding whether to go to grad school and want to hear from other 20-somethings who have recently been in your shoes? Do you desperately need to get those job applications out, but just want to talk about Taylor Swift? Look no further, Career Composer has it all.
Career Composer
18. Summertime Sadness: Career Comparisons + Navigating a Quarter Life Crisis
Erin shares her advice for how to navigate a quarter-life crisis (or multiple) and the career comparisons that happen so often in our 20s. When we're all at different places in our lives and careers, it is way too easy to get stuck in a comparison spiral. You're not alone!
We cover:
- Erin's most recent quarter-life crisis at Ocean City Maryland (and why Lana Del Rey is the best medicine)
- Why there is so much pressure to be perfect in our 20s!!!
- Advice for navigating friendships when we're all in different places
- How money, status, and job title play into career comparisons. Hint: Your career does not equal your worth!
- Why it's totally normal to feel this way (and how to use career comparisons to motivate you to make a change)
Check out The Prelude to hear song recs from Erin's Summertime Sadness playlist on YouTube, plus Erin's take on Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" announcement on New Heights podcast!
Enjoy :)
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