Your job sucks.

The founder

StuffGradsLike is all about helping you leave that job and find meaningful work, no matter what.

My name’s Anthony Moore, founder of StuffGradsLike. I specialize in helping people — especially college grads in their 20s — get out of work they hate and find meaningful work. Work they love, work they’re passionate about. Not just work you “don’t hate,” either — work you like. Work you really like.

My goal is to turn you into that person at the bar your friend’s friend brought who can’t stop talking about their job, because they actually love it. This site is built on what I learned the hard way while working early-career jobs I was unhappy with, and on the psychology and career-management training I studied to understand why those jobs felt the way they did.

StuffGradsLike exists for people who have already collected the credentials — the degree, the internships, the polished résumé — and discovered that none of it answered the question they actually cared about. The site is a place for those in their twenties and beyond, trying to figure out what meaningful work looks like once the classroom recedes. The tone is plain-spoken and literary, closer to a well-read friend writing in the margins of a paperback than to a career coach with a funnel. Expect essays on learning, growth, money, choice, and the ordinary obstacles that stand between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one.

The philosophy here is simple: success is a process, not a single dramatic leap. People who seem wealthy, focused, or fearless usually started by doing small, unglamorous things consistently — reading, learning, choosing deliberately, spending time on what matters and letting go of comfort when it stops serving them. Understanding the terms of your own life takes work, and the writing tries to make that work approachable. Failure is treated as information rather than verdict, and willpower is framed as a skill that can be strengthened like any other muscle through patient repetition over days and weeks.

What ties it together is a belief that the path to a stronger, healthier, more successful future runs through knowledge and hard thinking rather than shortcuts. Books matter. Writing matters. Taking time to read, reflect, and notice what you truly want is presented as the real obstacle and the real opportunity. The archives run across themes like mastering failure, financial independence, education and business, focus, and the everyday habits of extraordinary individuals who chose differently. Come for the tips and tricks, but stay for the longer, slower argument about becoming someone worth becoming.

Background

A few things about me

• Masters in Psychology, Career Management & CounselingFormal study of how people choose, build, and grow in meaningful work.
• Early-career experience I didn’t loveThe dissatisfaction that shaped the whole point of StuffGradsLike.
• Author of “Buyer’s Remorse: The Life You Thought You Wanted After College”An eBook about the gap between the life you pictured and the one you got.
• Creator of The MooreAboutBeer PodcastA podcast about craft beer, launched on August 4, 2016.
• Professional craft beer certificationEarned through the Cicerone organization.
• 2017: a year teaching English in South KoreaAnthony and his wife moved there for a year in September 2017.

What’s here

Start reading

• The Worst Part About Jobs in Your 20s
• What I’m Learning About Productivity
• 27 Life Lessons I’ve Learned by 27
• The MooreAboutBeer Podcast

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