Why you need a career counselor

A Facebook friend – not from Connecticut and so unlikely to read Career Counseling Connecticut’s blog – is starting a business. His Facebook friends are encouraging him. I’m never one to balk at “business ideas” as if my entrepreneurial success makes me the arbiter of what will succeed and what won’t. For most businesses, execution […]

So much career uncertainty that we are considering Universal Basic Income

I’m a political Independent and a vigorous one. I think the extreme partisanship on both sides is ripping our country apart. So, know that my comments here are not from a political perspective but from someone trying to help others with their career issues. In reading several books and articles related to career anxiety, I […]

Career Searching: Our whole family needs help!

When I started Career Counseling Connecticut, I thought that the bulk of our clients would be recent college graduates who were looking to find career traction. I was not surprised by the number of twentysomethings who had not found career-building jobs. I also was not surprised by the young thirtysomethings who were contemplating changing careers. […]

Is a good career one cure for depression? Yes.

We are facing a mental health epidemic. Due to the “counseling” part of Career Counseling Connecticut, I immersed myself in the study of psychology for several decades. My standard reading was on positive psychology as my ever-optimistic nature believes that we can shift our energy in positive directions in order to feel better. But in […]

Help for Parents to Help Their Twentysomethings with Their Career

The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning for Your Twentysomething Just released. While my self-consciousness about self-promotion always makes me resist the urge to suggest buying, I will say that the few people that I’ve shared the book with have been wildly enthusiastic in relation to how it will help them help their children. To be […]

Careers: The Trouble With Boys to Men

In 2012, I wrote Motivate Your Son. Based on my experience running The Learning Consultants, I observed a plethora of boys struggling in school. In 2015 I wrote Career Path of Abundance. This work focused on how we can find work that could lead to happiness and success. It was an aspirational work, focused on […]

2020: Change Your Career Before You Are Forced to Do So

In building Career Counseling Connecticut, I love that I can provide hope to those in Connecticut who want to change their careers. So many happy career-changing clients from 2019 gives me hope for more of the same in 2020. I’m a natural optimist. But I’m also a practical one. Some things like the changing workforce […]

2020: Time for a new career

I sometimes tell clients to imagine if their lives were being filmed. You are the main character of your movie. There are a lot of ways that you could write the movie. But I’m sure that doing the same dull or uninspiring job year after year would not be one of them. What stops most […]

Would a good career stop drug addiction? Yes.

A long while ago, I realized that my career counseling work had a higher purpose than helping people find better careers. The work sometimes saved lives – perhaps not literally – but in providing career direction to those who otherwise would drift down a psychological wormhole of anxiety and depression due to their unhappy jobs. […]

Who really helps your career?

Recent clients of Career Counseling Connecticut have noted some common themes: “I realize that I pay for a trainer at the gym or for a yoga class to help me get in shape but I’ve never paid for help with my career.” “I see a therapist about my anxiety. But I’ve never seen a career […]