What job to do.
Find it by knowing yourself.
lucalevi’s way helps you work out what job you should be doing. Not what you are already good at, and not what other people expect of you. And it helps you work out how to earn from it, because the bills still have to be paid.
In plain words
- You answer questions about yourself, with the help of an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT.
- The questions help you work out which job suits you, and how to earn from it.
- The method is free: you download a text file and use it whenever you like.
This is for you if…
- You have a job that’s fine, but doesn’t feel like yours.
- Too many things interest you and you don’t know which to follow.
- You know what you want to do, but not in what way.
- You know what you’re good at, but not how to earn from it.
What this isn’t.
- It isn’t a personality test.
- It doesn’t give you a score and it doesn’t put you in a box with a label on it.
- Nobody here is going to pep you up.
- No one will tell you that you can do anything you set your mind to. Some questions are uncomfortable, and that is exactly why they are worth answering.
- It isn’t a verdict.
- At the end it tells you what you always do the same way. It doesn’t tell you how your life will go. Whether what you read is true is yours to decide.
- It isn’t a ten-minute quiz.
- The best answers come a few days later, when a question is still going round your head.
Who I am.
I’m Luca Iacolettig. I have a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Technology. But it isn’t the work I do — and that is exactly the point.
After school I had no idea what work to do. After university I still didn’t. It took me years, a lot of attempts and a lot of questions before I worked out which path was mine.
That’s why I now help other people do the same. One thing I’ll say straight away: the answer changes from person to person. Yours isn’t mine.
Would you like to find out which path is yours? I wrote the questions myself, with the help of artificial intelligence. It is the AI that will ask them — the same one that gave me my answer. I’m leaving them here for you: they are free, and you don’t have to come through me.
Other methods tell you what you’re good at. But not who you are.
The usual questions go like this: what people compliment you on, what matters to you, how you want to be remembered, when you feel most yourself. They are good questions, but they stop too soon. What you end up with is a list of things you enjoy — cooking, fixing the car, coaching the kids’ team, playing music — that seem to have nothing to do with each other. So you think: I haven’t got a direction. That isn’t true. You are just looking at the wrong thing.
It isn’t what you do. It’s how you do it.
Take three things you enjoy doing, however different, and look at how you do them. Someone cooks, fixes the car and coaches the kids’ team: in all three he puts order where there was a mess. That is the part that never changes, whatever he is doing. And it tells you far more about him than any one hobby.
The path
Five parts, one after the other.
The first three give you a direction fast, in a single evening if you like. The fourth digs deeper and asks more of you. The fifth answers the question that stops nearly everyone: yes, but how do I pay the rent with this?
What you always do the same way
Think of three or four times you forgot what time it was. What you were doing doesn’t matter: how you were doing it does. Did you want it perfect, or did you make it up as you went? Were you after the finish, or did you enjoy the doing? Whatever comes back every time tells you more than any one hobby.
Planning it or making it
Do you prefer working out how a thing should come out, or making it with your hands? They are two different jobs. A brilliant cook who ends up doing the accounts, or a brilliant organiser stuck at the stove: right trade, wrong seat. And you only notice years later.
With people or with things
Are you better with someone in front of you, or making one thing well that then reaches people you will never meet? A teacher and someone who writes a manual both teach, but not in the same way. Neither is better. Pick the wrong one, though, and you feel it every day.
The nine hard questions
What you learned from the worst stretch you have been through. Who you are jealous of, and what that jealousy is telling you. What you were like as a child, before you learned to keep everyone happy. You don’t do all nine: you pick three or four, the ones that are really about you.
How you earn from it
Ten or twelve concrete ways to make money out of what came up. Because working out your path and not being able to live on it gets you nowhere: if you have to take another job to pay the bills, you never actually walk it.
Try one
Three real questions. Try them now.
Copy one of these questions, paste it into Claude or whichever assistant you use, and answer it properly. Take your time. On your own you will get further than you think. These three come from parts 1, 2 and 4. The rest are in the file.
1.1
Tell me three or four things you have done where you forgot what time it was, however different from one another. Then, for each one, don’t tell me what you did: tell me how you did it. Did you want it to come out perfect, or did you like making it up as you went? Were you after the finish, or did you enjoy the doing?
2.2
If you had to give up one of them for good — working out how a thing is done, or doing it with your own hands — which one would you miss more?
4.3
Think of someone who makes you jealous. Not admiration: real jealousy, the kind that stings. What is that person doing? And what does it tell you about what you want too, but have never let yourself want?
The method is free. The work is yours to do.
Five parts, dozens of questions, already in the right order. Download the file, open it with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, and start. No sign-up, no payment. I do ask for an email address, so I can ask you in a month how it went — and if you would rather not give it, the file is yours anyway.
How to use it
There is nothing to learn.
The file is a text document with all the questions in it, already in the right order. You attach it to an assistant and it asks you them one at a time, waits for your answer, and skips none of them. If you have never used an assistant in your life, it doesn’t matter: every step is set out below, one by one.
Better with someone
You can do this on your own, and it works. But if you have someone who has known you for years — a friend, a brother or sister, the person you live with — ask them to sit with you while you answer. You answer, they listen and tell you what they notice. We all have blind spots about ourselves: the thing we always do the same way is invisible to us, because to us it just seems normal. Someone who knows us spots it straight away. Their job isn’t to answer for you, it’s to make you think. The questions in Part 4 are more personal: keep those to yourself if you prefer.
Download the file. Plain text, a few kilobytes, nothing to install. It lands wherever your downloads land, under the name “lucalevi-way-method.md”.
Open an assistant and start a new conversation. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: any of them will do, free tiers included, on a computer or a phone. If you have no account, signing up with an email address takes a minute.
Attach the file to the conversation. Next to the box where you type there is a paperclip or a plus sign: press it, choose to upload a file, and pick the one you have just downloaded.
Paste the message below and send it. From there the assistant takes over: it will ask you the first question and wait for your answer.
The first message
I have attached a document: it is a path of questions for working out what work I should be doing. Read all of it before replying, including the notes addressed to you. Then start at Part 1 and ask me the questions one at a time, waiting for my answer each time before moving on to the next. Don’t run ahead to the later parts and don’t draw conclusions until we have reached the end.
If you like, add a line about yourself: your age, the work you do now, why you decided to try this. It isn’t needed, but it helps the assistant pitch the questions.
Answer in your own time, one question at a time. Stop whenever you like and pick it up the next day by going back to the same conversation. The questions that stay with you are the ones doing the work.
Frequently asked questions
Nothing. The file is free and there is nothing to sign up for. I do ask for an email address, but you are not obliged to give it: the window carries a link to download all the same. If something paid comes later it will be something else: the method stays free.
Now it’s your turn.
Download the file, open it with the assistant you use, and start at part 1. You don’t have to tell me you did it, and you don’t owe anyone a report.