| 🌿 The Sweet Spot |
Vol. 1 · Issue 013
Monday, September 14, 2026 |
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| Pivot With Purpose · Career strategy · Macro clarity · MyrtusHQ Career Signal · Expand the Map |
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This week in The Sweet Spot
What If Your Sweet Spot
Is Somewhere Else?
Last issue, we talked about running your own race. But there is another part of that idea worth exploring: you do not necessarily have to run it in the place where you currently live.
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This week's compass
Your career does not have to fit the place where you happen to be. Sometimes finding your Sweet Spot means changing the map.
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Section 01
The Sweet Spot
Read the signal. Find your position. Move with purpose — even if purpose takes you somewhere unexpected.
We spend a lot of time thinking about career moves as a choice between companies, industries and job titles. We spend much less time asking whether the geography itself still works for the career and the life we are trying to build.
The macro cycle is always speaking because capital moves, industries expand and contract, governments invest, and new infrastructure gets built. Companies cluster around talent, resources, energy, universities, supply chains and customers. And jobs tend to follow. That means career strategy is partly about understanding where economic activity is moving, not simply deciding what job title you want next.
Your skills may be more geographically transferable than you think. A project manager in Denver may discover that the same experience maps unusually well into mining projects in Australia. A cybersecurity professional in the United States may find industrial opportunities in Canada, the Gulf states or Europe. Someone working in energy, engineering, finance, technology or agriculture may discover that another country is actively trying to attract exactly the type of experience they already have and then there is the other half of the equation. Your career supports your life. Your life does not exist merely to support your career. You may want mountains, walkable neighborhoods, restaurants, better weather, more travel, proximity to family, lower housing costs, a bigger city, a smaller city, the ocean, four seasons or no winter at all. Those are not frivolous considerations. They are part of designing a life.
Run your own race. But remember: you get to choose the course.
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Section 02
The Signal From Sturnella
Capital is still telling us where future capability — and future work — may be needed.
SIGNAL 01 · THE INDUSTRIAL SIGNAL REMAINS STRONG
Investment is flowing into the physical economy.
The latest Sturnella Signals tracked investment flowing into mining technology, secure defense infrastructure and distributed nuclear power, while strategic-minerals transactions continue to push companies toward greater control of resources and processing. Capital and policy are converging around resources, electrification, resilience and strategic supply chains.
SIGNAL 02 · MINING IS CAPTURING INVESTOR ATTENTION
18 of the 30 companies in the 2026 TSX30 are miners.
Gold, silver, copper and strategic minerals span the list. The broader pattern is bigger than any one commodity and these industries are global, examples include: the mine, processing facility, reactor, defense supplier, data center or manufacturing plant does not necessarily sit in the city where you currently live. Sometimes following the signal means following it geographically.
What if the place where your skills are most valuable is not the place where you currently live?
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Section 03
The 1-Pomodoro Career Map
Give yourself 25 focused minutes to see how much bigger your career map could be.
Choose one industry or job title you are genuinely interested in, then pick five countries you associate with that industry. Do not worry yet about whether you would actually move there. This is exploration, not relocation.
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Is my industry growing there? Look for investment, projects, hiring, government policy, company expansion and talent shortages. |
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Where does the work cluster? Do not stop at the country. Find the cities, regions and industry hubs. |
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What does my experience translate into there? Your title may change while the underlying skill remains valuable. |
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What would I need to work there? Look broadly at visas, professional credentials, language requirements and employer sponsorship. You are not solving immigration today — just identifying the friction. |
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Would I actually want the life that comes with it? Weather, housing, travel, culture, restaurants, outdoor access, family, transportation, pace of life. This is where career planning gets personal. |
The goal is not to identify your perfect country in 25 minutes. It is to discover whether your current geography has been an unconscious constraint on your thinking.
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Section 04
AI That Helps
Use AI to test a location hypothesis not to tell you where to live, just expand your ideas.
Try this:
"I currently live in [location] and work in / want to move into [industry or role]. Based on my experience below, identify five countries or regions where this type of work has meaningful demand. For each, tell me the major employment hubs, why demand exists, how my experience might translate, likely barriers to entry and what I should research next. Do not assume I want the highest salary but consider career opportunity and quality of life."
Then ask the more interesting question, where could I enjoy more of the life I want? Tell it what that actually means:
"I want mountains, skiing, good restaurants, an international airport and a strong mining industry."
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"I want warm weather, access to the ocean, a walkable city and a growing technology sector."
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"I want space, horses, lower housing costs and access to a major airport."
Compare the answers. You are not asking AI to make your decision but you are using it to surface possibilities you may never have thought to investigate. And keep the experiment closer to home too: if you live in the United States, your Sweet Spot may not require an international move at all. Perhaps it is simply in another state.
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Section 05
Make It Doable
Do not plan the move. Test the hypothesis.
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Name the life first. Write down three things you want more of outside work: mountains, culture, sunshine, travel, space, restaurants, community, lower costs…whatever matters to you. |
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Choose one career anchor. Pick the industry, profession or capability you want to take with you. You need one constant before you start comparing locations. |
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Build a five-place shortlist. Choose five countries, states or cities where that work appears to have a real economic reason to exist. |
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Compare life + work together. For each place, write one career advantage and one lifestyle advantage. A great job in a life you dislike is not your Sweet Spot. |
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Choose one place to investigate. Spend 30 minutes this week reading its local news, looking at neighborhoods, checking employers and imagining an ordinary Tuesday there …. not a vacation. |
You do not need to move. You just need to know whether staying where you are is an active choice rather than the default.
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Section 06
Recharge
If you want your brain to see a new path, give it something new to see.
🌎 THE DARE: GO TO THE TRAVEL SECTION
Go to your local library or if a bookstore is closer, go there instead. Find the travel section and wander through it without searching for anything specific.
Pick up a book about a city you have never visited. A state you have barely considered. A country you know almost nothing about. It does not need to be exotic maybe it is a major city two hours away, a different U.S. state a short flight away, or a destination halfway around the world.
Flip through the photographs. Look at the neighborhoods. Read about how people eat, move, work and spend their weekends. See where your curiosity takes you.
You are not booking a flight. You are reminding your brain that the world is considerably larger than your current routine.
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Your Practice
One Small Assignment
01 Write down the three things you want more of in your life outside work.
02 Choose one industry, profession or skill set you would take with you.
03 Identify five countries, states or cities where that work has a reason to grow.
04 Use the AI prompts to compare career opportunity with the life you actually want.
05 Pick one location and spend 30 minutes investigating what an ordinary life there might look like.
06 Visit the travel section of a library or bookstore and let yourself discover somewhere you did not think to search for.
That is enough. Read the signal. Expand the map. Run your own race.
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THE SWEET SPOT
Read the signal · Find your position · Move with purpose
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Career insights for people who want to pivot with purpose.
This newsletter is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, accounting, or cybersecurity advice. Market information is time-sensitive and may change after publication.
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