A week before I finished high school forever, my careers advisor looked me in the eye and said, "I really don't want you to get your hopes up." I was genuinely so confused. What was the point of all those assignments if it wasn't going anywhere? What was I supposed to do with what he could see as the pending disappointment?

Flash forward, I taught myself to solve real business problems before I'd even had a job, which is how I landed my first role at a Big 4 firm at 19, with a semester of uni still left to finish. Recruitment even rang to check my age wasn't a typo.

Then my Masters thesis on teenage mental health became an award-winning school careers program.

I spent my 20s figuring out how to make sense of my own career, upskilling, running experiments, saying yes to things that didn't look like "perfect opportunities" yet, and ended up 4X-ing my salary because of my skillset, not my job title.

None of it came from a personality test. None of it came from picking the "safe" degree. It came from having a method to figure out how the different pieces of who I am could be placed together to serve a real need.

In fact I'm dyslexic, and school was a constant struggle until I figured out how my brain actually worked. I went from struggling to topping my class. Which is why I will never, ever let a test result be the last word on what you're capable of.

I have also failed interviews, made wrong turns, and had many crying-in-my-room moments. I'm not going to pretend the path is straight. I'm going to give you the method so you waste less time in the wrong directions. This method is Your Kind of Career and I've devoted my career to figuring it out.