Corporate Drifters

Your job title just became redundant. Your department was restructured. The career you built carefully, for years, no longer exists in the form it did.

Corporate Drifters is written for this exact moment.

In a world of mass layoffs, automation, and relentless corporate uncertainty, the professionals who survive and thrive are not the ones who stayed in one lane. They are the ones who learned - by choice or by force - to move across industries, roles, and identities without losing themselves in the process.

Drawing on two decades of experience across India, Singapore, and the Asia-Pacific region, author Shawn Roy reframes the non-linear career not as a liability but as the most resilient professional strategy available today. Through history, cultural comparison across ten countries, practical frameworks, and real stories of drifters from Tokyo to Jakarta to Silicon Valley to São Paulo, Corporate Drifters shows you how to make sense of your zigzag path - and how to use it.
Whether you were just laid off, are holding on until the next restructuring, or simply know that the career you have is not the career you were meant to build - this book was written for you.