Month: October 2019

This article: Most Americans think young adults should be financially independent by 22—but only 24% are explains the genesis of my new book: The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning For Your Twentysomething.  As parents of our generation have discovered, sending kids to college does not lead to career-building jobs post-college.    

Robot automation will take 800 million jobs by 2030.2 —McKinsey Global Institute Despite being a fan of The Terminator, I am a hard-wired optimist.  Notions of dystopic future worlds do not scare me because I believe “we’ll figure it out.”  Indeed, I am confident that some of us will figure it out despite the onslaught of AI that will gradually replace millions of jobs done by […]

Shocking article The number of young adults with mental health issues is skyrocketing.  The article was stunning because it attributes some part of the mental health crisis on career unhappiness.  If you are a parent, you have every reason to be concerned. Career Counseling Connecticut can help.    

Not all my clients are as bold as Lucy.   She routinely urges her friends and acquaintances who are having career challenges to make an appointment with Career Counseling Connecticut.  She’s pushy but in a funny way.  She often lets me know that one of her contacts will be calling and then will relay how she […]

The middle and even upper middle classes of adults in their twenties and thirties are really struggling.  The New York Times article is sobering. Indeed, do not read it if you are prone to stress!  As a father of three who are entering and soon will be entering the work world and young adulthood, I couldn’t […]

Career Counseling Connecticut helps clients of all ages in surprisingly equal doses.  I have been consistently astonished by how many thirty-forty-fifty somethings have come for career help. But as a parent, I empathize with the helpless feeling of not being able to help one’s own children.  My next book is The Parent’s Guide to Career […]