And five specific roles I’d take if the right one came along
The job market in 2026 is broken in a specific way.
The roles people post don’t match the people who exist, and the people who exist don’t fit the categories the roles use. Recruiters filter on legibility. Founders hire on conviction. The gap between those two is where most of us are losing time.
If you’ve sent dozens of applications this year and gotten silence back, the problem probably isn’t you. It’s that you’re being read by a system designed to sort generalists into categories that don’t fit. Marketing or operations. Writer or builder. Strategy or execution. Pick one.
I’ve spent the last year refusing to pick one. This piece is what I’ve learned about how to hunt for work when you don’t fit a clean category, and the five roles I’d take in 2026 if the right ones showed up.
The frame is for you. The roles are for me. Both should be useful.
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