Parents: Help Your College Age Children Plan for the New World of Work

One of my friends runs a company that has continually been named one of best places to work in Connecticut. Indeed, my son had an internship at his company and said the same. I would name the company but I’m about to reveal what might be a private poll and do not want to divulge […]

Post Covid Careers: Welcome to the New World of Work

I have been writing about “the New World of Work” for over a decade. I am intimately familiar with his world because I joined it about 20 years ago. Having started my career in large organizations, I then shifted to an entrepreneurial and then fun entrepreneur career path. This has made all the difference in […]

Post Covid Career Planning

Through the years of running Career Counseling Connecticut, I’ve noted that the most common phrase from one of career counseling clients upon leaving our first meeting has been: “I should have come here years ago.” Most people who are unhappy in their jobs or careers “settle in”. Uncomfortable couches take less energy to sit in […]

Covid Career Gift: The Shift To Meaning

My larger company is The Learning Consultants. I started The Learning Consultants around 20 years ago. The authentic reason was that I felt a calling to make a positive difference in the lives of others through education and counseling. The stated reason I said to many alpha male types was an interest in the education […]

Covid, Careers, and Connecticut

2021 will be similar at the start of the year as 2020. But it will be better because we have hope. Those who were frozen in their career planning in 2020 by both logistical realities and the real fear of economic calamity if you switched jobs can now be more hopeful. Connecticut will rebound, in […]

Covid: Now Is The Time To Take Charge of Your Career

Covid has taken a great deal away from Connecticut residents. I feel the need to apologize for insensitivity for anyone who has lost a loved one or suffered devastating effects of Covid related to health or finances. But as I have relayed to Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients, Covid has some gifts. For most, time for […]

Find a career that will be spiritually and psychologically uplifting

In running Career Counseling Connecticut through the years, I’ve made it a point to study what makes a good career. I wrote Career Path of Abundance with this in mind and was recently reminded of a significant point recently: A new client, who had read the book, wrote: “I want to find a career that […]

2021: Become a master in your career

A few years ago, I watched a documentary: Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It was so good that someone like me who does not like sushi and is nothing more than a “Dad-cook” was mesmerized by the mastery of Japan’s top sushi chef. His dedication to craft, his focus on providing excellence to his customers, and […]

Career Tests

Through the years of working with Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients, some of my happiest moments have occurred in “saving” young adults from entering mismatched careers.  The “work” has come from our interactions. The give-take of understanding our career seeking client and my years developing expertise in this niche has occasionally led to magic and normally […]

Covid Update On Career Advice

“You are not going to starve or become homeless.”  That’s one of the lines I repeat to my career counseling clients.  I then walk them through the happy reality of living in an affluent state like Connecticut. In my career counseling experience, I am certain that most people are not too reckless but rather too […]