If January was the longest month since March 2020, February was 28 consecutive days of chasing twin toddlers around someone else’s fancy house while they have full diapers that need changing, except they are also somehow armed with blowtorches, and 49% of the people in the house are cheering them on while their own hair smolders, but also every day, the toddlers get to kick two more people out of the house, and they boot the firefighters first.
Sorry. That might’ve been traumatic for parents, and especially for parents of twins or other multiples, and, to be fair, for my fellow Americans. And just about everyone else. Bit of a month!
Living in Northern Virginia, we have a front-row seat to the ongoing destruction of the U.S. Federal government, though in multiple ways, it feels a lot like having a front-row seat at a Gallagher show. Which is to say, we know too many people and institutions whose jobs and roles now bear some resemblance to smudges of smashed watermelons, and the idiot with the hammer is cackling madly and pulling the next prop out of his trunk while the rest of us try to wrench the protective plastic sheeting in front of our face, always just a little too late.
Sorry! I’ll ease up on the metaphors.
Here’s what the chaos has meant for my job search: Thousands of highly qualified climate and sustainability experts are now on the job market.
This is a little disruptive from my perspective, but I am rooting for all of them – and all of us, by extension, like, for all of humanity – but it has helped me stay laser-focused on where my expertise and experience can be most useful.
And that’s going well.
I am multiple interviews deep with multiple companies right now. I am looking forward to telling you all more about what happens next, and soon.
Focusing on those conversations has meant I’ve kept a lower public profile this month, but I did just publish a post about moving my personal website again, if you’re into deep cuts about cruft removal from WordPress databases and image URL manipulation via regular expressions. I know some of you are into that sort of thing.
Candidate-Market Fit
The still-accurate short version of what I’m looking for in a new full-time role…
I’m seeking a remote role as a Senior IC in a Sales, Partnerships, or other go-to-market function at a startup or growing B2B software company in the climate technology space, with an emphasis on data, renewable energy, and compliance.
By The Numbers
- 3 meetings with people like you: This is a much lower number than in previous months, which I’ll take as a good sign that I’ve moved on from networking to getting work done. Both are important.
- 4 Job Search Council meetings with my Never Search Alone group, plus a few extra calls for interview practice, coaching, and questioning each other to help prep for calls. And another colleague from our group accepted a full-time job offer this month! 🎉
- 4 webinars: I have been signing up for more of these than I attend, but a highlight was a Green Web Foundation workshop on some approaches to Digital Carbon Estimates.
- 6 job interviews: Like I said in the intro, things are happening. All of the companies I’m talking with now are squarely in the area I want to be working in, and the types of jobs I want to be doing. Stay tuned.
- 2 job applications: This number is down to nearly nothing thanks in large part to the ongoing interview processes I’m in now, and in some other part as I keep my focus narrow to account for the aforementioned now unemployed thousands of former Dept. of Energy, EPA, NSF, NOAA, NWS, and other climate experts on the market. Focus is helpful!
- 1 car totaled: RIP 2007 Prius.
- 1 car purchased: Welcome, 2017 Prius.
Previously: January 2025, A month that happened
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