Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs. 

Jade has become everything she ever wanted to be: successful lawyer. Dutiful daughter. Beloved girlfriend. Loyal friend.

Until one night after a work event when something terrible happens to her, she starts to wonder if she really wanted to be the person she’s become.

She’s learned to laugh when she’s felt like crying, opted to be invisible when she wanted to speak up and adapted her identity to please whoever she’s spending time with. As she tries to confront what happened, Jade finds she has a choice to make. The question is: which is the right one?

‘Oh my god, have you seen The List?’

It began as a list of anonymous allegations about abusive men. Now it’s been published online. Ola made her name as a journalist breaking exactly this type of story. But today, her fiancé Michael’s name is on there. As her relationship and future at Womxxxn magazine hang in the balance, will the truth behind The List change everything for both of them?

Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? Jolene certainly doesn’t. She’s riddled with anxiety, depressed and hates her co-workers. The less she knows about them, the better.

So when a catastrophic IT mistake grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, she’s initially horrified. The last thing she wants is to be privy to their sad discussions about dying desk plants and marital troubles.

That’s until, with job cuts looming, she realises the power this new-found knowledge gives her. But as she digs deeper and deeper into the private lives of her colleagues, Jolene uncovers a lot more than she bargained for… 

Jane is 26, freshly dumped and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. 

Hera is in her mid-20s, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-20s. Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far. Until she meets Arthur.

He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office, the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in, he is a source of much-needed sustenance. And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing and, ideally, very little thinking.

She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end isn’t so easy. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly, how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?

As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she’s not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful… 

What does the future of work look like? While working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company’s Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it’s an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from … wherever he says he is.

Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service’s AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ‘real’ world?

Keiko is 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend and has been working in the same supermarket for 18 years. Her family wishes she’d get another job. Her friends wonder why she won’t get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy and she’s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store…