The day
What do you actually do between clocking in and clocking out?
Hour by hour, boring parts included. The boring parts are usually where the truth is.
Ep. 01 · In production · Launching soon
Pick a career, they said. Okay, show me one.
Every week I sit down with someone in a completely different job and ask the questions you can’t Google: what the day actually looks like, what it actually pays, and how they actually got in.
The format
Four questions, every guest.
Then it goes wherever the job leads.
These four anchor every conversation, so you can actually compare one career against another. Everything else follows the job, not a script.
The money
What does it really pay?
Starting out, five years in, and where the ceiling sits: real numbers, not salary-site averages.
The way in
How did you actually get here?
Degree, apprenticeship, certificate, or a friend who knew a guy. Every route counts, including the weird ones.
The truth
What do you wish someone had told you at 18?
The part they’d normally only say off the record. Usually the best answer of the episode.
The wildcard
A wildland firefighter and a court reporter don’t get the same follow-ups.
Every episode still opens with the four above. Everything after that chases whatever’s actually true about that specific career.
The range
Every job is somebody’s whole life
The fields I’m booking guests from. If yours isn’t on here yet, it will be.
Skilled Trades
- Electrician
- Welder
- HVAC Technician
Healthcare
- ER Nurse
- Paramedic
- Physical Therapist
Tech
- Software Developer
- IT Support Lead
- Data Analyst
Creative
- Sound Engineer
- Set Designer
- Motion Designer
Business & Sales
- Account Executive
- Operations Manager
- Recruiter
Public Service
- Firefighter
- Teacher
- City Planner
Law & Finance
- Paralegal
- Actuary
- Compliance Officer
Building Your Own Thing
- Shop Owner
- Freelance Contractor
- Studio Founder
The lineup
First three episodes
Recording now. Guests get announced to the email list first.
Ep. 01 Recording
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Ep. 03 Open slot
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- Name
- Isaiah
- Role
- Host
- Show
- More Than A Job
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The host
Hi, I’m Isaiah
I didn’t plan any of this.
I’ve worked at Olive Garden, Hard Rock Cafe and Casino Tampa, Seminole Gaming, the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Publix, before somehow ending up in financial operations for an HVAC company. If you’d told 17-year-old me that’s where I’d land, I wouldn’t have believed you. Honestly, I’m not sure I could’ve even pictured it.
That’s kind of the point.
Nobody sits you down as a teenager and tells you that careers are messy. That most people don’t end up where they thought they would. That the “what do you want to be when you grow up” question is almost designed to make you feel like you need a straight answer, when almost nobody’s path is actually straight.
I started More Than A Job because I wish someone had told me that sooner. It’s for anyone (especially if you’re 17 to 25, or standing at some kind of career crossroads) who wants to hear how people actually got to where they are. Not the polished version. The real one, detours included.
No perfect answers here. Just honest conversations about work, and the winding, occasionally chaotic ways people find their way into it.
Guest intake
Have a job? Then you have an episode
You don’t need a title anyone recognises. If you can tell me honestly what your Tuesday looks like, that’s the entire show.