Ground breaking study on the Future of Work: Parents you will need to help your children
The Future of Work McKinsey Consulting – some of the biggest brains on the planet – has released a major study on the future of work. Some key findings: Not surprisingly, Four of Connecticut’s cities make the list of “trailing cities” (Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Norwich). Also, not surprisingly but frightening, many jobs that twentysomethings […]
Career Counseling To Bolster Mental Health
I started noticing a change through Facebook. A friendly acquaintance from town had gone from rarely posting and, if so, innocuous family or activity pictures to frequently posting angry political posts. While I know politics can generate crazy behavior from seemingly normal people, I had known this guy long enough to think something was amiss. […]
The good economy is a charade for most twentysomething college grads
Harvard Business Review From an article written by Jeffrey Selingo … young adults no longer have as clear or straightforward a career path as previous generations did. Many end up drifting aimlessly through their third decade of life as I found while interviewing 752 young adults (aged 24-27) across the country for my book, There Is […]
The time is NOW
The older I get, the more I wonder about our capacity to self-sabotage. Career issues are my main work focus so my attention naturally goes towards the clients I meet who almost invariably tell me: “I should have come for career counseling years ago.” Are you happy in your career? If “no”, then do you expect […]
What should I be doing with my life?
Evan has a good job by conventional standards. He earns good money, has a solid title, and job security. He also has a fifteen-minute commute to his job in East Lyme, CT, reasonable hours, and decent bosses. Due to his general abilities and work ethic, he is a success. But his 30th birthday made him reflective. […]
Parents: Help your children find happy and successful careers
My next book addresses how parents of twentysomethings can help their children with their careers. The book emanates from my career advisory work through Career Counseling Connecticut. But it also stems from a couple of decades running The Learning Consultants. In that role, along with my wonderful teammates, we help parents navigate the high school […]
Perhaps the only recurrent dream I have relates to my career path. I’m either still in law school or working as an attorney. In either case, things are not going well and I’m stressed. Somewhere in my subconscious, I realize that I also started The Learning Consultants (the main company of which Career Counseling Connecticut […]
Is your twentysomething waiting for career to happen?
My next book focuses on parents, specifically “how can parents help their twentysomethings find happy and successful careers?” One of the bigger challenges facing parents is the implicit programming that occurs in our K-college system. Every year, change – often massive change – just happened. The 4th grader may have had a terrible teacher but […]
Back to work: Do you feel renewed, flat, or dread?
Having experienced all three emotions in relation to work, I urge those who do not feel renewed to consider a career change. Much of Connecticut, post-Labor Day, is experiencing the back to work blues. Some feel flat. This is a low feeling related to boredom and lack of inspiration. Some feel dread. Having to see […]
Back to the salt mine?
When I was an associate at a large law firm, one of the partners would end social discussions by saying “back to the salt mine.” That was hardly the most inspiring way to get his associates back to billing hours and, while certainly hyperbolic as I’m sure working in comfy offices beats working in sweltering […]