I need your help.

Fresh on the heels of my recent interviews with Simone Stolzoff and Ankush Jain, my next newsletter interview is coming into view.

I’m excited to have snagged an interview with the authors of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Squiggly Career, Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis.

If you don't know what a Squiggly Career is, the book's subtitle might give you a clue:

Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity and Design Your Career

So think less career ladder and more career spaghetti.

Needless to say, I haven't had the most conventional career path myself. It started out traditionally enough with a few promotions here and a few sideways moves there. But then I took a 6 month sabbatical, quit my job and two years later went BACK to my old job while writing and coaching on the side. And today, with 50+ Mindset & Clarity workshops under my belt at work, it almost feels like my job and my coaching have merged.

So I guess you could call that spaghetti-like. 

Perhaps even a bit curly-wurly?

Whatever the case, I've certainly learnt a thing or three about squiggly careers. 

But I'd still love to get Helen and Sarah's take on topics like generalists vs specialists, how to use a side project to fuel a job (and vice versa) and how the shift from straight to squiggly might play out in the next 5 or 10 years.

I want to make sure you enjoy the interview too though.

Which brings me to this:

If you're on a less conventional career path or running a project alongside your 9 to 5, do you have any questions about Squiggly Careers?

Just hit reply if so and I'll squiggle them straight over to Helen and Sarah.

To fulfilment, 

Tom