Five Careers, One Golden Thread: James Munoz on Using AI to Make Sense of a Nonlinear Career

Edge Careers · Nov 5, 2026 · 28m

James Munoz grew up wanting to be a Marine. His mother, who had started college and dropped out, sat him down in his last year of high school and encouraged him to go a different route. He listened, went to a small military college in Alabama, earned his commission, and spent roughly a decade as an officer in the US Army.

That was the first of five careers.

As he neared the end of his military service, James started asking the questions a lot of people hit at that stage, about meaning, purpose, what any of it was for. So he enrolled at an academic divinity school and spent three years…