What The Hell Is My Job?!

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Real jobs, stranger details, honest tradeoffs.

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Anonymous professionals talk through the real texture of work: risky projects, career pivots, patient advocacy, remote design, entrepreneurship, and identity strain. The tone is candid and practical, with each job revealed through lived details rather than polished career advice.

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About What The Hell Is My Job?!

This career-story show looks at work from the inside, one anonymous worker at a time. It favors details over tidy labels. A guest might describe sending someone into a margarita-themed adventure, trying to rescue a plan when a risky clue goes wrong, or learning that every elaborate project needs an eject button. Another might talk about birth support, fear, preparation, and the kind of care that lets a person feel powerful during a vulnerable moment. The range is wide, but the center stays steady: work is personal, messy, and often stranger than its title suggests. The show spends time with people who have changed industries, lost professional identities, built businesses, or discovered that a job they once wanted no longer fits. Software applicants, franchise consultants, valuation professionals, medical workers, digital nomads, HR staff, entrepreneurs, and hands-on specialists all get space to explain the mechanics of their work. Some episodes are sharply practical. Listeners hear about bloated platforms, small MVPs, startup capital, family-business succession, resumes, AI tools, and the numbers that make private companies real. Other episodes are rawer. A worker describes the public misunderstanding around cuddle therapy, media sexualization, bipolar disorder, suicide attempts, and the long work of staying well. The show does not flatten those experiences into inspiration. It lets people connect job loss, identity, health, money, family plans, and ambition in their own order. That gives the series a loose, conversational pace. It can jump from primary care shortages to metal detecting, from remote plumbing systems to digital nomad loneliness, from workplace boundaries to post-pandemic wages. The short format keeps the energy moving. The anonymous structure keeps the focus on the work rather than celebrity. Its best moments arrive when someone says the quiet part plainly: the job is not just duties and pay, but risk, recovery, compromise, pride, and the private question of what comes next.

Made for: For listeners who like career stories with human mess, not corporate polish. It suits people curious about unusual work, career changes, entrepreneurship, identity strain, and the private lives behind professional identities.

What sets it apart: Instead of presenting job titles as neat explainers, the show lets workers describe the incidents, anxieties, failures, and odd routines that reveal what the job actually feels like. The anonymity shifts attention away from credentials and toward lived experience.

In their own words

Pull back the curtain with these short, anonymous and lighthearted insights into the lives of working people to help you understand their attitudes to careers, desires for work/life balance, where they’ve come from and where they are going to in their employment lives. These professionals are from all parts of the world and all walks of life, but they are not your careers advisor or employment agency and they won’t help you understand everything about a job. Hell, they won’t even tell you what their title is! This is all about entertaining you with a bitesized, off-ce...

career pivotsanonymous work storiesentrepreneurship and startupsmental health and identityremote work and digital nomad lifehealthcare and patient advocacyworkplace boundariesbusiness ownership and valuation

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Best episodes of What The Hell Is My Job?!

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Best Of Season 1 (pt.1)Jan 20, 2025

A candid, fast-moving look at risk, improvisation, and making unusual ideas work.

The episode treats work as a string of calculated gambles. Some ideas get shut down fast, while others are bold enough to make it through, and the speaker keeps one eye on the eject button before things go sideways.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Best Of Season 1 (pt.1)

    "What The Hell Is My Job?" presents a 'Best Of Season 1' compilation featuring six guests in jobs ranging from bespoke adventure design to nonprofit car repair, hypnobirthing instruction, tattooing, entrepreneurship, and finance-turned-self-employment.

    Jan 20, 2025·35m·2 clips
  2. 2

    46 "My Career, My Life, My Job Had Been Taken Away" and "The Body Keeps The Score"

    Hidden gem

    This episode of What The Hell Is My Job?!

    Nov 11, 2024·10m
  3. 3

    45 "Beyonce Bought A Tour From Us" and "It's Become A Sort Of Universal Constant"

    Nov 4, 2024·12m
  4. 4

    44 "Tumultuous Years" and "Rock Star Of The Supply Chain"

    Oct 28, 2024·9m
  5. 5

    43 "I Could Get Away With A Million Bucks" and "Chase Geese Off Of Properties"

    This episode of What The Hell Is My Job?!

    Oct 21, 2024·10m
  6. 6

    42 "Five Hundred Jobs" and "When Numbers Start Hitting Pages"

    Oct 14, 2024·10m
  7. 7

    41 "I Can't Wait To Open My Inbox" and "There Are Certainly Signals"

    Oct 7, 2024·11m
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    40 "I Did See The Not-So Glamorous Sides" and "Put Multiple Substances Together"

    Sep 30, 2024·9m
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    39 "There's A Lot Of Steps In Making Your Image" and "Sitting In Motel Rooms And Caravan Parks"

    Sep 23, 2024·12m
  10. 10

    38 "Went On Tour And Didn’t Tell Us Who He Was” and “I Knew You Could But It Was Fun To Watch”

    Sep 16, 2024·9m
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    37 "I Never Thought I'd Get To This Kind Of Place"

    Sep 9, 2024·9m
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    36 "We Lose Something As Adults" and "I'm The First Person That People Speak To"

    Sep 2, 2024·10m
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    35 "97% Of My Clients I Never Meet In Person" and "It's Strange Enough Still"

    Aug 26, 2024·13m
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    34 "People Always Think There's A Fishy Smell" and "I Still Get Mailbox Money for All Those Roles"

    Aug 19, 2024·11m
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    33 "Doctors Are Patients Too" and "Hunting Fields With Cotton Mouths"

    Hidden gem

    This episode of What The Hell Is My Job?!

    Aug 12, 2024·11m
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    32 "But My First Client From My Country Is My Dad" and "You See A Lot Of People Still Doing It"

    Aug 5, 2024·12m
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    31 "A Complexity Sherpa" and "There Is No Middle Ground"

    Jul 29, 2024·11m
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    30 "A 3D Way And Through My Body" and "I Know Everybody Loves Microfilm"

    Jul 21, 2024·12m
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    29 "If I Fail For It, I Fail For It" and "Then I Had An Emergency C-Section"

    Jul 15, 2024·13m
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    28 "I Wasn't Expecting It" and "We're Not A Family"

    This episode of What The Hell Is My Job?!

    Jul 8, 2024·12m
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    27 "They Looked At Me Like I Was Insane" and "I Could See Me In Looney Tunes"

    Jul 1, 2024·13m
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    26 "Every Performance Felt Like A Protest" and "You Don't Wanna Freak Them Out"

    Jun 25, 2024·11m
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    25 "It's Amazing To Work On Somebody's Intestines" and "Go Camping And Save A Bunch Of Money"

    Jun 17, 2024·13m
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    24 "It's So Simple But It's Something I've Not Been Able To Do" and "I Don't Know How We're Funding The Non Profit"

    Jun 10, 2024·10m
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    23 "Turns Out, People Are People" and "Eventually They'll Find Somebody That Says Yes"

    Jun 3, 2024·10m
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    22 "It Was Very Mean Girl" and "The Collapse Of A Therapeutic Relationship"

    May 27, 2024·10m
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    21 "Not Everyone Gets Tingles" and "Do You Know How It Feels To Do It On Your Own?"

    May 20, 2024·13m
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    20 "Guided Subconsciously Or Consciously By Various Mediums" and "You Gotta Call Your Mom"

    May 13, 2024·10m
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    19 "Have An Otter Hand-Off A Clue" and "The Middle-Aged Lesbian Goes To Car School"

    May 6, 2024·10m
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    18 “I Don’t Believe In That 100%” and “They’d Been Trying To Get Rid Of Me For Ever”

    Apr 28, 2024·10m
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    17 "I Move Around A Lot From Island To Island" and "You've Gotta Kill Your Darlings"

    Apr 22, 2024·11m
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    16 "You Can Place Them Anywhere On The Head" and "There Are A Lot More Water Filters Than I Ever Would Have Imagined"

    Apr 15, 2024·11m
  33. 33

    15 “Whatever That Means” and "You're Getting A Piece Of Bacon Mate"

    Apr 8, 2024·12m
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    14 "The Shop Foreman Built Ukelele's" and "If You Don't Leave, You're Never Gonna Leave, So Leave, So I Left"

    Apr 1, 2024·11m
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    13 “In Total Reverence Of Her Power” and “I Just Got Deleted From The Whatsapp Group”

    Mar 25, 2024·13m
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    12 “I Did My Best Result At My Fourth Olympic Games” and “I Just Had To Face My Fears Alone”

    Mar 18, 2024·11m
  37. 37

    11 “Bottle Fed These Baby Birds" and "I Kinda Sucked At Uni"

    Mar 11, 2024·11m
  38. 38

    10 “Cracking Skulls, Breaking Up Fights” and “If You Asked Me One Thing About That Management NVQ I Probably Couldn’t Tell You”

    Mar 4, 2024·9m
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    9 "I'm Also A Boy Scout Leader" and "You Just Go Grocery Shopping, Now You're At A Slot Machine"

    Feb 26, 2024·12m
  40. 40

    8 “It’s Gone From London To Very Rural Jungle” and “I Should Go To Sweden, But With My Bees”

    Feb 19, 2024·11m
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    7 “I Was The Only Person At Burning Man in 2020" and “If There’s No Furniture, I’ll Sit On The Floor”

    Feb 12, 2024·11m
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    6 “I’ll Be At A Bus Stop And People Will Just Start Telling Me About Their Relationship With Their Mothers” and “Total Package Artform”

    Feb 5, 2024·11m
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    5 “Plate-Spinner Type Stuff” and “I’ve Already Missed All My Meetings”

    Jan 29, 2024·10m
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    4 “they were both naked” and “retching over the sink”

    Jan 22, 2024·11m
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    3 “oh ****! can i say ****?” and “python in a bowtie”

    Jan 15, 2024·10m
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    2 “i’ve risked my life” and “lines in the bathtub”

    Jan 8, 2024·10m
  47. 47

    1 “maybe it’s like going home” and “sweat in a dirty room together”

    Jan 1, 2024·11m