The Robots Are Coming: Save Your Children, Get Career Help
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 on mental health and careers. Get help for you and your adult children now
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.
You pay for a gym membership but not a career coach?!
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 […]
Help your young adult children create financially stable careers
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 […]
Parents of Twentysomethings: Career help is on the way
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 […]
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. […]