I have a philosophy degree, a master's in business analytics, and an analyst seat at a capital management firm, none of which were the plan, exactly.

I picked philosophy because the questions in the room were the most interesting ones. I picked a master's in business analytics because the questions in the room had gotten quieter and I wanted to be useful in a way that showed up on a spreadsheet. I now work as an analyst at a capital management firm, which is a sentence I would have laughed at five years ago.

The path wasn't a path until it was. It was a series of Tuesday afternoons where I sat with something I didn't know and made a list anyway. The interesting question is not how I got here. It's whether someone else with a humanities degree, no obvious next step, and no family connections to the firms they're interested in can do the same thing on purpose.

I think the answer is yes, and I think the meta-skill nobody teaches is the one that gets you there: how to write the sentence at the top of your story so a non-linear path reads as an asset, not a flaw. Most career advice is tactical. The lever is positioning. That gap is the reason this exists.

Who this is for.

Gen Z humanities and non-target majors who aren't above ambition and aren't into bullshit. Specifically, four kinds of people:

• The senior six months from graduating, watching the class above struggle, with thirty internship applications out and zero callbacks, quietly googling whether their major was a mistake.

• The recent grad who's a year or two out, underemployed, has applied to a hundred jobs, knows what a ghost job is, and is trying to figure out whether to pivot or persist.

• The reluctant pivoter, two or three years into a first job they quietly hate, learning SQL in the evenings, hasn't told their boss anything.

• The stacker, already doing well, often by accident, who wants to be intentional about a non-linear career instead of stumbling into one.

Who this isn't for.

People who want a five-steps-to-FAANG playbook. People shopping for permission to give up on ambition. Anyone over about 28, because this is peer content, not coaching content, and the moment I become "the older one" the wedge collapses. People whose theory of work is "the system is rigged so why try." LinkedIn influencer trainees.

What you can expect from me.

A weekly post in The Sunday Note that reads more like an essay than a tip list. TikToks that aren't trying to be inspirational. Templates, when they're ready, that look like documents from a publication, not Canva freebies. Honest pricing, with a small discount for buying direct here instead of on Etsy. Real numbers when I have them. No "humbled and honored," no "trust the process," no "manifest your dream job."

What I'm not doing.

I don't do one-on-one coaching, I don't run a community yet, and I'm not going to. The work is the writing and the templates. If something changes, I'll say so in The Sunday Note.