It’s so easy to simply stumble into jobs post-graduation. There’s an ad agency hiring entry level, and with your Dramatic Lit major you can’t really find much else that will pay your rent and coffee budget without deferring real life for another few years at grad school. So you take the job. You sit in a cubicle. Maybe you try to write a novel. But this isn’t what you came to New York for, and that’s what Shatterbox wants to help you fix.

Shatterbox is “a video-based social community for students and young professionals to find inspiration and share ideas about innovative careers,” their mission statement says, and they want to push you — the Dramatic Lit major — not to settle for the ad agency (if you are, indeed, unhappy there). Amanda Holt, the founder, videotapes these creative professionals telling their story of how they came to combine their passions with their pay check.

It’s designed to inspire 20-somethings, many of whom surf the internet for desk jobs in a dismal sea of bland LinkedIn accounts and Craigstlist postings. The idea is to get you to think outside the box a bit — jobs don’t have to be as conventional or even name-able as they once were, and there may be a job out there you haven’t even considered or heard of or made up yet.

Take Pheobe and Cara for instance. While lacking a creative outlet in their post-grad corporate jobs, the pair started a food blog for quarter-lifers in cramped quarters to live out their passion for food. They have since developed that hobby into a full-time business operation with a book deal.

Depending on your interests, you can search their database of videos of passionate careerists by industry and other subcategories, from “Medicine” to “Adventure.” Shatterbox won’t necessarily find your dream job, but they can help get you out of a mind-rut in your forthcoming search for one. I imagine it wouldn’t hurt to peruse that “Adventure” category.