Honest stories of anxiety, loss, and the light that finds you when you least expect it.
Most career books teach you how to craft a new resume. This one tells you the whole truth about what happens when the career comes to an end and nobody talks about it: the identity crisis that emerges when you lose your title, the isolation that silently worsens the situation, and the process of clarifying what you are actually trying to rebuild.
Written from inside the transition itself, not the other side of it. Savan Kong was unemployed for a year after leaving the Department of Defense, received an ADHD diagnosis at 46, and wrote every page while still figuring it out. Each chapter ends with a Try This section: specific, doable actions for that week.
Raw, unscripted conversations with people in the middle of a major career transition.
Practical conversations with coaches, recruiters, therapists and executives.
A deep dive into careers most people have never considered.
“Nobody wants to sit in the part where you don't yet know who you are without the title.”
There's a version of this story that starts with a job title. A pretty good one. Then one day, it was gone. Life Between Titles is for that middle part, after the door closes and before anything new opens.
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