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Feeling Lost? Your Childhood Interests Can Predict Career Satisfaction. Here’s How To Reconnect With Your Essence | The Quickie
Category: Education
Duration: 00:13:55
Publish Date: 2026-02-18 11:00:00
Description:

Feeling lost in your career? Questioning your life direction? So many of us spend our 20s and 30s chasing the job titles we’re told we “should” have, lofty income goals, or status, only to end up feeling disconnected, unfulfilled, and like we’ve sold our soul along the way.

What if the answer to career clarity and job satisfaction isn’t ahead of you… it’s behind you?

Research shows that people whose adult careers align with their early interests experience higher job satisfaction, better income, and greater educational attainment. If you loved writing, building, organizing, performing, asking questions, leading groups, solving problems, or creating things as a kid, those patterns can still guide what feels meaningful and easeful in adulthood.

So in today’s episode, we explore how your childhood interests and your true nature as a kid can offer clues for what will bring you long-term career fulfillment — and why reconnecting with who you were as a child is an evidence-based career strategy.

Tune in to hear about:

  • Why so many adults feel lost or misaligned in their careers
  • The disconnect between societal expectations and your authentic self
  • How your childhood “essence” reveals your natural strengths
  • Prompts to uncover your core nature
  • The new research linking childhood interests to adult job satisfaction
  • How interests are often more stable than personality traits
  • Holland’s RIASEC career theory in the 6 interest categories
  • How to use your younger self as a practical career compass

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