Three Ladders, Same Waiting Room

Here’s the plot twist nobody tells you about: you can climb all the way to the top of your field and still end up right here, doors shut, waiting for the next one to open. We each ran up a different ladder, the corner office, the sales floor, the security ops center, and somehow we all landed on the same floor of limbo.

Turns out “senior” doesn’t come with a fast pass. The questions rhyme no matter which ladder you climbed

Meet the Hosts

Chris Duffy The Executive

Fifteen years in senior executive leadership, steering teams through mergers, acquisitions, and every “big call” that lands on a leader’s desk. I always figured the closer you sat to the CEO, the safer the job. Turns out limbo doesn’t care about the org chart: even from a senior seat, I wound up right here. On Career Limbo I’m bringing the view from the top down to the waiting room, honest about how humbling the drop can be, and proof that the title on your old badge doesn’t decide what’s next.

Bright living room with modern inventory
Bright living room with modern inventory
Bright living room with modern inventory
Bright living room with modern inventory

Brian Gerard The Cyber Guy

Married dad of three, born and raised in Philadelphia (Go Birds!), where he did not spend most of his days on the playground. He walked into IT in the last few minutes of the 1900s and climbed from help-desk tech to IT manager, with detours through network and systems engineering, then a pivot to InfoSec… and then to unemployment, in the worst job market in over a decade. He’s here to share his point of view and remind everyone riding the same nonsense El that they’re not alone. They say it gets better, and who’s he to argue with “They”?

Steph Gordon The Closer

Single mom of two in Denver, Colorado, and a lifer in sales — who’s been unemployed more times than she’d like to admit (thanks, COVID). Instead of spiraling, she decided to laugh about it, every single time. On Career Limbo she brings sharp humor and zero corporate-speak to the messy, humbling, occasionally hilarious reality of job hunting, because “in between jobs” doesn’t mean “in between purpose.” It does get better… usually right after it gets worse.

Bright living room with modern inventory
Bright living room with modern inventory