Most career advice assumes you're either fully employed and content, or fully unemployed and searching. It doesn't spend much time in the middle — where you're still doing the job, still showing up, but quietly knowing it's time to move. This episode is about that stretch. Not tactics. The harder stuff: the ethics and psychology of a job search conducted from inside a job. What you're obligated to disclose and what you're not. How to protect your performance when it would be easy to coast. What your employment contract actually says. And what you owe yourself when the process takes longer than it should.
