Keep your hobbies or lose yourself

Rachel Fenton on the messiness of pivots, curiosity as the thread, and making things with your hands.

📚What You'll Learn

1. Why staying connected to multiple identities and hobbies is essential insurance against work consuming everything in your life

2. How the career gap is often messier and less linear than the polished LinkedIn stories we see, and what that realistic timeline looks like

3. What "the right size" means for your career and why growth isn't always the answer

✍️ Some Takeaways

• When work becomes everything, leaving becomes impossible because you've lost all your other selves.

• Career moves are pragmatic sequences of small decisions, not pivotal moments.

• The career gap is messy and turbulent, even with privilege and safety nets.

• Making things by hand is medicine for a life spent on keyboards, and it's non-negotiable.

Where to find Rachel Fenton

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-fenton/

Where to find Milly

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milly-tamati/

Generalist World Resources:

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qbGzMU...

The Generalist Quiz: https://www.generalistquiz.com/

Essays: https://www.generalistcareer.com/

Upcoming events: https://lu.ma/generalist.events

Positioning Guidebook: https://www.generalist.world/positioning