Giving Back
Five per cent of profits from Careering Off Course will be donated to Hatch Enterprise, a registered UK charity supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs to launch and grow sustainable, impactful businesses. I'm delighted that money raised by the book will help support Hatch's work.
This isn’t a gesture rooted in triumph. The book doesn’t chart a neat rise, a breakthrough moment, or a masterplan that finally worked. It follows a long series of misjudgments, overconfidence, half-formed ideas, and the uncomfortable gap between believing you’re capable of something and actually knowing what you’re doing.
The broader framework behind the project — and how this book fits within it — is outlined on the About The Series page.
Like many people who try to build something — a business, a side project, or simply a way out of a job that no longer fits — I wasn’t reckless or lazy. I was learning as I went, often without the vocabulary to explain what I needed, occasionally mistaking persistence for progress and, at times, hiding in jobs I didn’t really want because they felt safer than trying and failing at something of my own.
If the book makes any money at all, it feels right that five per cent of the profits should help other people take their shot — with some of the structure, encouragement and practical guidance I could have used myself.
The full reason for this decision — including the slightly uncomfortable truth behind it — is explained in more detail in the book itself. Some things are better confessed in context.