The Squiggly Career
Voted the No.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller of 2020, this book arrives with some weighty praise behind it. The Financial Times named it Book of the Month, and it's not hard to see why. The straight-line career, the kind where you climb steadily upward in one tidy direction until you retire with a gold watch, is largely a relic. What's replaced it is something far messier, and, Tupper and Ellis argue, far more interesting. Jobs shift. Industries morph. People change. The authors call this the squiggly career, and their central point is that this unpredictability, though it can feel genuinely unsettling, carries real potential for those who know how to work with it rather than against it. The book is built around questions worth sitting with: What are your actual strengths? What do you value? What pulls you forward when motivation fades? It then offers practical tools for tackling each one, covering everything from identifying your core confidence blockers to cultivating support networks that genuinely sustain you. The tone throughout is warm without being breezy, and the structure is logical enough to follow without feeling like a corporate training manual. Real stories from successful people are woven in to ground the advice. It's an encouraging, clear-eyed guide for anyone feeling adrift in their working life, or simply curious about what comes next.
- Author: Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
- Publisher: Portfolio Penguin
- Genre: Lifestyle & Wellness
- ISBN: 978-0241385845
- Pages: 240 pages