The skill you spent years building has an expiration date. In this conversation, Sam Alvita shares a number that reframes everything: college graduates today can expect their skills to last between six months and two and a half years. That means the ground under a career is always moving, and the old playbook for staying safe has quietly expired.
Most of us were handed a single image for our working life: the corporate ladder. Climb it, check the boxes, and the company will carry you from your first job to your retirement package. That promise does not hold anymore. Nobody is coming to carry you, and deep down, most of us already feel it.
Sam offers a different image, and it lands softer than it sounds: the web. Not entrepreneurship, not going it alone, but seeing yourself as more than your job title. A ladder has one direction and a hard fall. A web means there is already a net around you, made of the skills, relationships, and value you have been building all along.
If you are contemplating a career change, or in the middle of finding work that aligns with your purpose, your superpower, and your values, this is the permission slip to see yourself as multifaceted. The version of you that feels stuck in a role is not the whole story. There is more under the surface than the title on your business card.
This clip is a short pull from a longer conversation about reinvention, agency, and building a career that catches you. Watch the full episode to hear Sam unpack how your network becomes the net, and how to start seeing your own possibilities before the next rung gives way.
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In the full conversation, Sam answers the following questions:
- How to reinvent my career?
- How do I prepare to change careers?
- What makes for great teams?
- What is the learn, unlearn, and relearn cycle?
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Sam’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-sloan-alvita/
- Sam’s Company: https://www.byworkrewritten.com/
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What Do You Know To Be True? is a personal development and leadership podcast for professionals discovering, building, or already living into their purpose and possibilities.
Each episode is a real conversation with a guest who's navigated their own reinvention: from discovering a talent built out of something difficult, to now using their superpower in service of others. Their stories offer new perspective, validate what you already know, and inspire your next move. Wherever you are on that path, these conversations are for you.
Each conversation gives you something real: a guest's honest story, a practice or perspective you can actually use, confirmation you're on the right path, and you're not alone.
"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/
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