Career Change Necessity: The Frog In The Slowly Boiling Pot
I saw it when Pfizer began shifting its Connecticut operations and I’m seeing it again as General Electric ponders its Connecticut ties. Lives disrupted due to corporate decisions. This is definitely not an anti-corporate rant. Pfizer treated its employees very well during its semi-exodus from Southeastern, CT. I hope GE does so as it transitions […]
Career Goals: Time Affluence
“I have no time for anything that I want to do.” Sean said. Sean commuted from Fairfield to Stamford back and forth each day. Someday someone will solve Connecticut’s I-95 challenge. For now, Sean’s only other option was the train but both his house and office were not conveniently located to make Metro-North a better […]
4 Career Archetypes: Which one are you?
Tal Ben-Shahar teaches the most popular course at Harvard. The class presumably has a more academic title but it is basically a class on how to be happy. Among the many nuggets of wisdom that Ben-Shahar presents is a 4 archetype examination of people on the happiness spectrum. Unquestionably, most everyone is a mixture of each […]
Multi-jobbing: The New Path to Career Success
As I was writing about my work as a part time college professor, I realized that there is a valuable lesson for those in career change mode. The new world of work will require multi-jobbing for many. I’ll explain my story to provide context. When I started to build The Learning Consultants, 15 years ago, I […]
Career Lessons From Past Presidents
I teach a college class on The Modern Presidency. I find the persons behind the Presidency fascinating and in this case instructive for our career counseling clients. For the sake of balancing out the parties, I’ll focus on Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. My comments will have nothing to do with their policies, personal morals, and […]
Financial Analysis of the Worse Case Career Scenario
In the prior post, I described Jay’s layoff from a large company in northern Connecticut. Money is always the big worry for my career counseling clients contemplating career change. So, I thought it would be helpful to precisely describe what happened to someone who lost his job and had business failure. The hope is that […]
Take A Career Risk: Your Worse Case Scenario Might Not Be So Bad
Jay is a friend, not a career counseling client. He was laid off from his upper management job at a well known company in the northern part of Connecticut four years ago. From his perspective, the lay off was completely unexpected. He was 47 at the time. His wife didn’t work. They have two children, […]
Real friends will encourage positive career exploration
My wife Francie decided to get her Phd at age 44. She already had her undergraduate and master’s degree. But she always wanted a doctorate and was given a full graduate assistant fellowship to the University of Connecticut. I was delighted. She would be making the most of her potential and I know it would […]
DECIDE to Change Your Career
“I’m going to change my career.” Nancy said with a look of elation. “I don’t know exactly how but you helped Donna change her career and she was even more lost than me.” Nancy was in the financial department of a big company in eastern Connecticut. Nancy’s work life wasn’t terrible and the company that […]
Career Hope: The Happy Future of Your Work
“There is always hope.” I think this is a line from Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina. Or so I told myself as I walked out of my law office on a chilly December day about 16 years ago. Like many career seekers, I was lost. Fortunately, even in my darkest career hour, I still had the […]