- Steve Hind, Harbus Editor-in-Chief
As the HBS community takes on recruiting season, Sydney Kardashian West, son of Harbus CEO/Editor-in-Chief, Steve Hind (MBA ‘16), and his fiancé, Steph Stojanovic, shares his insights from a one-on-one session with his HBS career coach. Determined to choose the right career trajectory, Sydney was asked the following questions in a self-assessment in hopes of determining what type of job will suit him best. By sharing pieces of his own journey, he hopes to help others get on the right path.
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Career Coach: What are three questions you think are important to ask yourself when choosing a career?
Sydney Kardashian West: 1) Under what circumstances do I get peanut butter? 2) What kind of nap / life balance do you offer? 3) Am I a good boy?
CC: What are you ridiculously good at doing? Do you have any precious gifts?
SKW: I will find your electrical cables. And then I will chew your electrical cables. I have shorted the power in my parents’ bedroom at least once.
CC: What locations are you comfortable living in? What cultures and lifestyles are you drawn to?
SKW: I’m a city dog. I don’t like hiking and I don’t like nature. All I need is a patch of grass to roll in, and a busy urban environment with lot sof food scraps on the ground.
CC: Do you like people?
SKW: I do. But, more importantly, people like me.
CC: Are you more introverted or extroverted? How much teamwork and collaboration do you want?
SKW: I am extremely extroverted. I will throw the mother of all tantrums if I think I’m not getting enough attention. But teamwork? Not so much. If there is a team working for me, that’s fine.
CC: How much money do you want? Will you be able to balance your wants and needs?
SKW: I don’t have to make money-driven financial decisions, because my parents support me. That makes me like most HBS people, right?
CC: What do your friends always tell you you’d be good at? If you don’t remember, ask a few of your friends and tell us what they say.
SKW: My parents say I’m a good boy when I sit, when I come to them, and when I stop chewing the electrical cords.
CC: What type of job wouldn’t make work feel like ‘work’?
SKW: Chief bed snuggler.
CC: What do you know that you really want to avoid in your job/career?
SKW: Mirrors. They are *terrifying*.
CC: What are the ‘must haves’ for you in your career?
SKW: Peanut butter, and a team of humans to serve me.
CC: How do you feel when you hear the statement – This is what you’ll be doing for the next 5-10 years?
SKW: That sounds like a lifetime.
