Ep 1 – How to Stop Wasting Your Career (and Start Owning Your 80,000 Hours)

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:

• 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