Nobody Cares About Your Career
Why Failure Is Good, The Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths
"Advice to motivate you and give you the tools you need to fall in love with your job."
Barbara Corcoran
The ultimate playbook for crushing it at work, from the CEO of Barstool Sports.
With the verve and motivation of books like You Are a Badass and the smart, specific ideas of titles like Atomic Habits, Nobody Cares About Your Career is a real playbook about how work really works. It’s about thank-you notes and thankless tasks, how to pick a boss and how to get a boss to pick you.
It’s about beating your own insecurity and being all in (but not bringing your whole self to work—some of you is better left at home). It’s about being yourself and being successful; neither you nor work is perfect, but you can both be great.
It's about making your own luck at work—because if you don't care, nobody else will.
About The Author
Erika Ayers Badan calls herself a ‘Token CEO’ but in reality she is anything but. After traditional marketing jobs at companies like Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo! She became the first ever CEO of Barstool Sports in 2016 and took a rough and tumble sports and betting brand and turned it into a $550M juggernaut with over 5 billion monthly video views and 225 million followers. Known for her tough yet tender management style, Erika grew Barstool over 5000% in less than a decade.
Erika’s book, Nobody Cares About Your Career launches in June, 2024. She delivers a daily 1:1 series on social media answering work related questions. Erika serves on the board of Axon Enterprise, Food52, and the Premiere Lacrosse League.
Table of contents
Part 1: It's All About The Attitude
1. Do Whatever Makes You Happy, And Fuck Anyone Who Says Otherwise
2. Seek Uncertainty
3. Reality Check: Nobody Cares About Your Career
4. Have a Vision and Stick to It
5. Learning Is Everything
6. If You're Not Willing to Grow, You're Just Wasting Everyone's Time, Especially Yours
7. Failure Is the Best Teacher
8. Take Risks, and Stop Feeling Weird About It
9. Self-Awareness Matters
Part 2: Be Great At Work
Be Great With Bosses (Even If You Don't Like Them)
10. Know What Your Company Is Paying You To Do (Duh)
11. When Your Boss Looks Good, You Look Good
Be Great with Your Colleagues (Even if They're Idiots)
12. Don't Be an Asshole at Work
13. The Messy Stuff: Being Human, Getting Drunk, Sex, and Other Disaster Scenarios at Work
14. Nothing Good Ever Happens After 10:00 p.m.
15. Be Great to Yourself (Even if You Don't Feel Good About Yourself)
16. Don't Waste Your Time at Work
17. Feedback Is a Gift. Feedforward Is for Wimps
18. For the Girls: It's Not Easy to Be a Woman at Work
Sad but True
Part 3: Decision Time: Stay Or Leave
An excellent Dave Matthews song that has nothing to do with anything here
19. Work Is an Adventure
20. Committing to Stay
21. Letting Yourself Go
22. Conclusion: What to Take Away and Give to Any Job