Hi, I’m Justin!
I write practical career advice for students and early-career professionals trying to build careers that hold up in the age of AI.
This space is for you if:
You’ve ever felt like an imposter at work
You’re not sure how to navigate office politics
You want to get promoted, but no one has really explained what it takes
You’re the first in your family to enter a corporate job
You want a great career without sacrificing your life to get it
You’re trying to build confidence in rooms where you still feel new
You know you’re capable of more, but you don’t always know what move to make next
If that resonates, welcome. I write each week for you.
What you’ll find here:
Career Field Guide is the resource I wish I had before I knew how corporate life worked.
Each week, I share lessons from my experience working at Starbucks, Microsoft, and Amazon, along with what I’m learning now as a researcher studying how AI and digital transformation are changing the workplace.
I share tools and frameworks to help you:
Position yourself for that next promotion or exciting project
Prepare for your next job application or interview process
Understand how senior leaders think and ways to build better relationships with them
Build a practical vision and goals that map to your definition of work success
Decide when you want to lean in at work and when you need to step back
Become more confident at happy hours, work dinners, and travelling for work
The goal is simple: to help you feel less lost at work and more capable of building the career you actually want.
Who am I?
I’m Justin and I write because I know what it’s like to feel like you don’t quite fit in at work.
I’m a first-generation college graduate who started working when I was 14. For a long time, I did not have a vision for my career beyond finding the next better-paying job. I was not thinking about purpose, strategy, promotions, or long-term optionality. I was thinking about survival.
I was married with our second son on the way when a layoff led me to community college classes. That decision started a 15-year journey that eventually led to graduate degrees, roles at Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks, and moving my family to London.
But between starting and succeeding, I had to learn the unwritten rules of corporate life the hard way. I started Career Field Guide to create the resource I wish I had when I was beginning my college and career journey.
Today, I’m a senior researcher at Zero100, a London-based intelligence firm helping Fortune 500 COOs and supply chain leaders understand how AI and digital transformation are changing how companies operate.
That gives me a front-row seat to how work is changing. Career Field Guide is where I translate those executive-level lessons into practical frameworks for people still building their foundation.
Subscribe and You’ll Get:
Every week, I publish a thoughtful, easy-to-digest article to help you:
Plan your career with more intention
Understand what might be holding you back
Build the skills that make you more competitive at work
Stay encouraged when progress feels slower than you hoped
A reminder that your definition of success belongs to you
My hope for you:
Work will never be easy, but my hope is that Career Field Guide helps you build the confidence, skills, and clarity to navigate it with a deeper belief that you belong.
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Institutional Partnerships & University Access
As higher education investments in enterprise AI infrastructure rapidly scale, such as the widespread deployment of ChatGPT Edu across major university networks, academic leadership faces a critical hurdle: translating raw software access into verified workforce readiness.
Career Field Guide bridges the gap between what corporate operations leaders are deploying and what academic departments are teaching.
[University AI Infrastructure] ──► [CFG Enterprise Frameworks] ──► [Market-Ready Graduates]
By tracking live operational strategies, automation timelines, and deployment frameworks from Fortune 500 networks, we help universities de-risk their massive technology expenditures and protect their students’ career pipelines.
How We Partner with Higher Education:
For System Chancellors & Deans: Quarterly enterprise workforce intelligence briefings mapping how corporate AI transformations are shifting entry-level hiring criteria across operations, logistics, finance, and technology sectors.
For Career Centers & Advisors: White-labeled “Enterprise Prompting Playbooks” and Socratic coaching frameworks to transform campus AI tools from generic text shortcuts into rigorous corporate simulators.
For Faculty & Department Chairs: Ready-to-teach, industry-validated corporate case studies that integrate seamlessly into existing business, engineering, and digital transformation syllabi.
Institutional Inquiry: If you are a university president, dean, career center director, or a member of a campus Generative AI Advisory Committee looking to integrate real-world industry frameworks into your student ecosystem, contact us directly at justin@careerfieldguide.com to discuss system-wide access and turnkey playbooks.
P.S. — I work with a small number of readers one-on-one to help them apply these frameworks to their own career. If you are at a moment where you need more than a newsletter, book one off or ongoing sessions here.
