Educate Your Children About The World of Work

Many of you who are on a career counseling website are presumably trying to sort out your own career.  If you are a parent, you can do your children an enormous service by educating them about the world of work. How does one get educated about the work world?It used to be that children were […]

If you are an idealist, you have to believe that your work is doing good.

I was a criminal prosecutor when I started my career. This was in Philadelphia, not suburban Connecticut, so the bad guys were really bad guys.  Murders, rapists, armed robbers and other terrible types.  If you have seen movies, you likely have some view that there is a sizable percentage of innocent people who are framed […]

Expertise In A Marketable Skill Provides Invincibility

Admittedly hyperbolic, I hope my career counseling clients can become invincible in their careers.  Here’s what I mean: the world of work is and for the foreseeable future will be turbulent.  Talented scientists working at Pfizer will be let go because a corporate committee in Pfizer’s New York headquarters will decide to terminate a division. […]