Career Timeline: Stop Comparing Your Progress to Everyone Else

Unspoken Career Truths · Sep 17, 2026 · 8m

You know that feeling when someone your age gets promoted, buys a house, starts a family—or just seems to have their whole life figured out—and suddenly you’re questioning everything?

Lauren and Cara unpack the invisible timelines and “shoulds” we carry around about careers, success, relationships and adulthood. They talk about what happens when you hit a milestone you weren’t expecting, and how to figure out whether the expectations in your head are actually yours.

This conversation challenges the idea that comparison can simply be avoided. You live in the real world, where other people's…