You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured Out by 30 (Or 35...Or Ever.)

At 22, I was convinced I’d have it all sorted by 30.
At 30, I moved the goalposts to 35.
At 35, I realised… oh. This never really ends, does it?

And then came the blissful, slightly chaotic realisation:
The milestones don’t actually matter.
It’s all the juicy bits in between — the detours, the people you meet, the weird-but-surprisingly-useful skills you pick up along the way. I once even deployed a 'merg' request on our platform accessed by millions of users. Never did it again, but felt like a proper 'coder' for 10 minutes. 

When you sink into that, the whole “what do I want to do next?” question actually becomes kind of… fun?

Where was this fairy godmother when I was 18, thinking my uni major would decide the entire trajectory of my life? Or worst my year 9 subject selection. Deciding Food Economics or Art History was never really going to decide my life!

Is the collective career mindset is a bit broken?

We grow. We shift. We change priorities.
We get promoted into roles we thought we wanted — only to feel weirdly flat six months later.
We switch jobs. We chase flexibility. We start businesses. We go back to employment.
We scroll LinkedIn at 11:47pm wondering what everyone else seems to know that we somehow missed.

All of that? Totally normal.
Common, even.
But...
It doesn’t have to feel this meh.

At every wedding, family BBQ or school pick-up, you hear it:

“So, how’s work?”
“Oh you know… work’s work.”

NO.
Work doesn’t have to be a grey cloud with a login.

We’re likely working well into our 70s.
(Thanks, economy.)
And according to SEEK’s The Evolving Working Life report, 55% of Aussies regret their career choices. That’s… bleak.

But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

A career you actually love — without flipping your whole life upside down

It doesn’t start with a grand leap.
It starts with a few smart steps:

Step 1: Get curious

Feeling off? Press pause and actually ask:
What do I need from my work right now? 

Step 2: Know what energises you

Not what looks impressive. Not what “makes sense” on paper.
When do you thrive, find flow. Look forward to what you're doing?

Step 3: Get specific

Start designing your day-to-day.
Not just job titles — but the tasks, the environment, the way of working that fits.

Once you’ve got that mapped?
We plug it into AI to help you explore roles and paths beyond what you’ve already considered.
(Hint: There are more options than what’s in your current search history.)

Start with your career values (they’re your North Star)

These shape everything.
Get them clear, and you’ll start to see where the gaps are in your current job — and what needs to shift next. It makes scrolling job boards way less depressing.

That’s why we created the free Career Values Challenge.
It’s lifted directly from Week 1 of our Career Strategy Sprint — we’re just letting you skip the paywall like the clever cookie you are.

Career Recharge exists to challenge the status quo of “meh, it’s just work”

We’ve taken proven product strategy tools, layered in psychological insights, and built a clear, no-fluff framework to help you figure out:

• What you want

• Discover your options (beyond what you can see)

• Create the roadmap to make it happen

Because we’re pretty adamant about one thing:
You deserve to genuinely enjoy what you do