“I never have time to do what I want.” Linda said as she described her 6 day per week job. On her 7th day, she didn’t rest. She did errands, housework, and, often more work. A 28 year old from Fairfield, Connecticut, Linda’s temp job as a twenty two year graduate from Conn College in New […]
Read MoreMy original company – The Learning Consultants – remains focused on helping high school students gain admission to colleges of their choice. Due to thousands of clients from that work through the years on the Connecticut shoreline, it seemed natural that most of my career counseling clients would be twentysomethings. Surprisingly, the age range of […]
Read MoreThere are many ineffective career counselors. That’s unfortunate because they give the whole profession a bad name. It reminds me of my days as an attorney. Routinely, someone at a dinner party would make a joke about the ethics of lawyers. Not all lawyers are unethical and not all career counselors are ineffective. The ones […]
Read More“I feel trapped.” Jim told me. Jim had a conventionally good job, in terms of both pay and prestige, at a financial consulting firm based in Fairfield, Connecticut. Indeed, one of his friends wondered why he would seek career counseling. “You make more money than me”, the friend said. Jim was 38 when he met […]
Read More“It seems so overwhelming,” Marlene said as she started our career counseling session. “Every year, I go through this cycle of getting more frustrated about my job to the point where I update my resume and start looking at Monster and Indeed. And, then I stop.” When she came in for career counseling, Marlene was […]
Read MoreDianne told me that she was burnt out. A mid-level manager at a large company in Hartford, CT, she had come in for career counseling because she realized that she needed to change her career in order to improve her life. “My work has taken over my life. I work all the time. I can’t […]
Read More“I don’t want to make my family homeless.” Ted said. Ted was currently unemployed. He had been laid off four times since 2008, largely because his industry has never recovered from The Great Recession. His wife works and he has a reasonable amount of savings for someone in his late thirties, the beneficiary of a […]
Read MoreMy wife has almost always been happy at work. She’s naturally happy, giving, and funny. In most all of her jobs in a varied career in the health care industry, she can be the down to earth, helpful, and humorous person that she is in her personal life. The only time where she wasn’t really […]
Read MoreDenise graduated with a business degree and focus in marketing from one of Connecticut’s state schools. She came to Career Counseling Connecticut for resume and cover letter help. She wanted “a job”. This is understandable. But many of those unhappily trapped in a career path took “a job” that led to experience in that field […]
Read More“Is this it?” Tyler said as he commented on his career path. He worked in a mid-size company near New Haven and described his progression from an entry level position to assistant manager to manager to senior manager. His career progression had stalled at that point. Director was the next level and there was no […]
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