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I'm Sarah Vermunt, 

the gal behind Careergasm.

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I’m a career coach, former business professor, and the bestselling author of Careergasm and Career Rookie. I help people figure out what the heck they want so they can quit jobs they hate and do work that feels good.

 

My work has been featured at Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Inc., Financial Times, and lots of other cool places. 

 

Sounds pretty glamorous, right? Like maybe I'm one of those lucky suckers who always knew what I wanted to do and breezily worked my way to where I am now?

 

Um, read on...

How I got here: the real story

  • Post-graduation panic


    At 23 I had a bright, shiny journalism degree...and a strong desire to not be a journalist. (Gulp!) So I started my career with the same sense of panic that many young people have when they graduate.

  • Wins on an unexpected path


    I'm a scrappy optimist, so I worked my shitty part-time job for a few months until I scored a job working as a recruiter — something I wasn't trained for and never planned to do. To my surprise, I loved it! I worked my way up, getting promotion after promotion until I was managing a team of my own. I got my first masters degree. I felt proud and successful.

  • Feeling lost


    But then I stopped growing. I didn't want my boss's job. And I couldn't see anywhere in my organization I wanted to go. And did I even want to stay in this field I'd stumbled into, anyway? Time for some soul searching.

  • Maybe this is it?


    I decided to leave my job with great pay and benefits to become a professor. I quit, got a second masters degree, enrolled in a PhD, and scored a gig as a prof at a business school. Major victory, right?! I mean, what an accomplishment!

  • Whoops, wrong way


    I hated it. I loved teaching, but I haaaated conducting research (which is, like, 80% of a professor's job). So I did what most people do when they've worked hard to get where they are: I tried to push through and not think about it.

  • The road to "I quit"


    I started having all kinds of "unexplained" health problems (um, it was the job.) One day I finally broke. I had a breakdown in the middle of a crowded Starbucks. We're talking one of those floating over your own body watching in horror as the whole thing unfolds kind of breakdown. I couldn't do it anymore. I quit the next day.

  • Finally, feel-good work


    Since then, I've devoted my life to helping people get happier at work — to helping them get unstuck so they can do work that actually feels good. I've written about feel-good work at places like Forbes, Inc., & Entrepreneur. I talk about it on national TV. I've written bestselling books about it.  Ten years in and thousands of happy humans later, I still feel a pinch-me level of delight that I get to help people find their way to feel-good work.

But enough about me.

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