Career Coach or Life Coach for Career Coaching?
Career Counseling Connecticut provides…. no surprise… career counseling. That’s our expertise. Those who know me will often say that I am their life coach but that may happen only as an extra thing for some career coaching clients that I click with on a deeper and more continuous level. The bulk of my career counseling […]
Career Happiness Equals Good Mental Health
70% of the suicides in this country are committed by middle-aged men. I was stunned by that percentage. But I also know from basic psychology that men tend not to ask for help, suffer silently, and then, if they are prone to do something drastic, take real, as opposed to attention-seeking, action. In the last […]
Monday Morning: Excited to go to work?
“On Mondays, I feel like a kid dreading school. I want to hide under my covers and go back to sleep.” Jay said. Jay is a 33 year old business manager at a small company in East Lyme, Connecticut. He’s felt this way for a long time. Not only do I sympathize, I empathize, having felt […]
Artificial Intelligence Is Coming and Jobs Will Be Going
I’m a high level optimist and a perpetual positive thinker. So my alarm here is not from a Chicken Little but quite the opposite. I assume we’ll figure out how to deal with career challenges that are coming but the data is unmistakable from those who predict the future: Many jobs will be replaced in […]
College choice matters enormously. Career choice matters far more.
My initial work in the education space was the creation of The Learning Consultants, Connecticut’s largest private education consulting firm. Our work has focused on helping parents help their children succeed academically. From my mission oriented perspective, this area is where parents had their biggest challenge and where I could help the most. In the last […]
Want to be a better parent? Get a happier career
In 1995, I had a life-changing conversation with one of the wisest men I know. I was considering a job in the non-profit sector during the toughest part of my work life at a big Washington, DC law firm. My drop in pay would have been from somewhere in the low 100s to a […]
Create your own work rules
My son was suffering over typical inane rules that govern our education system. “You have to follow the rules of people who have authority over you.” I explained. I was definitely not an unquestioning rule follower when I was his age. I would ask “why” if I thought a rule was unfair. I carried this […]
Prepare for a “jobless” world.
A by-product of a liberal arts education is an interest in history. I won’t bore you with the history of work but I will suggest that you think about how long the “corporation” has been in existence in relation to mankind (and we’ll even start with year 0). Being employed by a large organization into the […]
Are you bored talking about your job?
“The last thing I want to talk about is work.” My friend Sean said. “It’s not that it’s stressful. It’s just boring.” I’m not sure which is worse stressful work or boring work. I used to think stressful. But at least stress makes one feel alive and usually the stress comes with stories that make […]
Do you feel “right” in your career?
I never felt like myself when I practiced law at a big firm in Washington DC in the 1990s. I am completely myself in my work with clients at Career Counseling Connecticut. Gretchen Rubin wrote The Happiness Project. Like me, Rubin had been an attorney and she left the law to pursue being a writer because […]