Unconventional Career Paths That Lead to Freight Recruiting Success

Not everyone finds freight the conventional way. Morgan MacDermaid worked at Disney World, backpacked through multiple countries, and picked up odd jobs across different continents before landing in transportation recruiting. In this episode of The Journey Podcast, Will Jenkins sits down with Morgan — now a Senior Recruiting Advisor at Journey — to talk about what an unconventional path actually teaches you about sales, resilience, and building a career on your own terms.

Morgan talks honestly about the risks she took — leaving stable work, moving without a plan, figuring things out in real time — and what those experiences built in her that a traditional career path doesn't. She covers how she transitioned into the transportation industry, how she developed as a freight recruiter, and why the skills that made her good at navigating unfamiliar countries also made her good at building relationships with candidates and clients.

The conversation gets into work-life balance as a freight professional — not as a buzzword, but as a real operational question for people who care about both their careers and their lives outside them. Morgan shares how she thinks about that balance now versus how she thought about it earlier in her career, and what changed.

This episode is for freight professionals who want permission to take an unconventional path — or who are trying to figure out what that even looks like in practice.

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