There once was a young man named Arya who tried to live his life like it was a clear, sensible manual.
He opened one chapter, only to discover the pages were sticky with other people's expectations.
He worked jobs that smelled like fluorescent light and compromise, took degrees that promised success and delivered polite confusion, and learned—slowly, like a bruised violin—that the world does not hand out careers as if they were tools in a tidy toolbox.
Arya noticed something funny: when people spoke about work, they told stories with far more sorrow and longing than a man ought to carry.
He became fascinated by those stories the way a child is fascinated by a cockroach—disgusted and unable to look away.
He started asking questions nobody asked politely:
What do you want when no one is watching?
What would you do if you could not fail?
What are you lying about to yourself right now?
He failed plenty.
He got lost on purpose.
He read career books like prayer books and listened to people like confessions.
He learned to hold a mirror without breaking it.
Somewhere between the existential mess and the practical grind, he discovered that a career is less a ladder and more a peculiar map made of contradictions, compromise, and occasional joy.
He is the kind of counselor who tells you the unpleasant truths and then shows you how to make them useful.
He helps people turn the unbearable business of growing up into a plan that will actually fit into a life.
He does not promise miracles.
He offers a way to tell your story so that your work looks less like punishment and more like something you might wake up for.
If that sounds dangerously reasonable, that is because Arya prefers honest over illusions - because truth, like laughter, is often the only thing that saves you.
NETWORKING ESSENTIALS
This little film about networking effectively is a small machine for not being alone. It holds up a mirror to the human comedy and offers plain, sometimes scabby advice: say hello, listen hard, remember names, and be less of a walking résumé. It is kind to the anxious, tender with the bragging types, and ruthless about time-wasting rituals. Expect gentle mockery, clear-headed rules, and the odd consoling truth — that making useful connections is mostly about being useful and being real. Watch it if you prefer your career help with a wink, a shrug, and the hope that people will surprise you by being decent.
PITCH ESSENTIALS
If you want to charm a room with three sentences and not terrify it with your résumé’s entire life story, here’s a little trick: think of yourself as the mullet of introductions — business in the front, party in the back, and all of it perfectly trimmed. Begin with your clean, useful headline: who you are now and why you’re useful. Then, slide into the back hair: a single tidy anecdote that shows you’ve got grit, humor, or peculiar competence. Finish by turning toward the future like a polite man with a drink in his hand — say where you’re heading and why you’d like to go there with them.
If job interviews are a circus (and they are), this is your trained poodle act. Keep it human, be oddly specific, don’t babble. Remember: people hire other people, not bullet points.
RESUME ESSSENTIALS
This here workshop is for people who have been hammered and hollowed by jobs and bosses and the baffling modern ritual of résumé-writing. Arya will teach you how to stop lying to yourself on paper, how to make your truth look attractive to the machines and the humans that read them, and how to say what you did without sounding like a weeping robot of corporate-speak.
You will learn to trim the fat, to sculpt sentences that mean things, to arrange facts so they look like a spine instead of a stack of receipts. Arya will teach you to practice small, brave acts of clarity: concise verbs, measurable outcomes, and the blessed omission of every meaningless adjective. Bring your worst résumé; we will rescue it from its own sorry prose and teach it to sing in plain, honest English.
If life has taught you anything, it’s this: stories that are true get you a chair at the table.
Come learn how to tell yours so the right people will sit up and listen.
COVER LETTER ESSENTIALS
Imagine your cover letter as a love letter — minus the florid declarations, plus a little moral courage.
In this workshop Arya will teach you to stop begging employers for scraps of attention and start telling the truth about what you can do. You will learn to craft the opening line that does not pretend to be a miracle, to shape the middle that shows competence without arrogance, and to finish with a clear, human invitation to a next act: an interview.
Arya will help you strip away clichés, banish vague boasts, and replace them with sentences that sing like small machines working perfectly. Bring your resume, bring your ego (Arya will temper it), and bring the person you are beneath all the jargon.
By the end you’ll have a cover letter that reads like a clean love letter — brief, honest, and impossible to ignore.
LINKEDIN ESSENTIALS
Imagine your career as a long, stubborn string of events — some silly, some sorrowful, some spectacularly mundane — all marching toward the next thing.
In this workshop, Arya will teach you how to put those events on the internet in honest, human language so that strangers who matter will know what you were doing and where you might go next.
Arya will help you strip away buzzword fog and the tedious pomp of resume-land and help you tell the short, sharp truth about your work.
You’ll learn to craft a headline that doesn’t lie or pander, a summary that sounds like you (the careful, exhausted, hopeful you), and job descriptions that show how every small failure and small triumph prepared you for the next one.
Arya will teach you to turn your scattered experiences into a single useful story: not a fairy tale, not a sales pitch, but a clear map of how the past trains you for the future.
Bring your awkward job titles, your volunteer hours, your late-night side projects, and your occasional glorious mistakes.
Arya will teach you what to keep, what to cut, and what to say when someone asks, “Why you?”
By the end, your LinkedIn profile will look like the best version of a life that keeps learning — ready for its next ridiculous, wonderful turn.
INTERVIEWING ESSENTIALS
This is a workshop about interviews, because the world of hiring is a noisy, arbitrary circus and you — who may be the best at whatever it is you do — will still have to out-interview a thousand other clever, terrified animals to get the job.
Arya will teach you how to behave like a decent human trapped in a bureaucracy: how to tell your truth in tidy sentences, how to steer a conversation away from myths and into facts, and how to sell the work you do without sounding like a used-car salesman from Mars.
You will learn simple, stubborn techniques: how to set up stories that land, how to answer weird, invasive questions without crumbling, and how to ask questions that reveal whether the place is sane enough for you.
Arya will teach the kind of plain talk that saves you time and spares the other person their pretensions.
Arya will also teach the gentle arts of reading the room, correcting misimpressions, and leaving a final impression that makes them glad they picked you out of the chaos.
Bring your oddities and your résumé.
Leave knowing how to out-interview the arbiters of fate — and what to do when the arbiters turn out to be fools.