{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Adapted Ambitions","title":"0206 Why Smart People Make BAD Career Choices","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6f85c7db\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1206,"description":"Ada Offonry explores why highly capable, intelligent people still make career decisions they later regret. She breaks down the hidden psychological traps that keep us over optimising for salary, security or titles, staying too long in roles that no longer fit, or leaping into new ones for the wrong reasons.\nToday, you'll learn about:\n\nOptimising for the wrong thing\nFear disguised as “safety”\nA smarter way to choose what’s next\n\nData Sources:Job regret (72%): Joblist U.S. Job Seeker Survey 2024Staying too long out of fear (58%): CIPD UK Employee Outlook 2025High earners + comp-only decisions: Harvard Business Review, \"The High Earner's Dilemma\" 2024\n \nTo be reminded of all future episodes, please FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE.\nFor more from Ada: https://adaoffonry.com/\nFollow Ada: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaoffonry/\nFind out more about Ada's new venture: https://www.inferencesearch.ai\nAbout your Host: Ada Offonry\nAda Offonry provides talent and career intelligence for quantitative finance and technology.\nShe spent four years as Global Head of Talent at Quadrature Capital, and over 20 years in executive search partnering with hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and elite investment banks across New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.\nAda now works with firms building high performance technology teams, and with senior quantitative and engineering professionals navigating complex career inflection points, through Inference Talent Advisory.\nHer work sits at the intersection of market intelligence, talent strategy, and career decision making in an increasingly volatile world of work.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UtbCZpPlM_3rZLTSxeeBlbaKKLDCb9_ZKEJPo1tFWYw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMDNm/YzQ4YTBjYmQ3OTVl/MmIyMzIxODVlMzU2/MDgyYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}