Your life is a movie. You are the main character and writer. I can help as.. the director.

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 your 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 people from moving forward? Two simple answers: (1) confusing career exploration with career change a and (2) greatly exaggerating career risk With both, I seem to direct our clients effectively.  They have a hard time moving forward without outside assistance. I get our clients to vigorously explore options. By career exploration, I don’t mean fleeting thoughts when you are driving to work about escaping your current job to some not-yet identified job but rather serious exploration through research, analytical review, and, yes, working with an expert career counselor. I get our clients to examine risk more analytically. As for risk: I’m a father of three and for many years was the sole breadwinner of five. I come from a family where my father worked at the same company for 30 plus years and my mom was risk-averse. I started my career as an attorney, a profession designed to point out risks to clients. That’s a long way of qualifying myself as someone who was not programmed to take career risks. But I simply say with full clarity after providing career counseling services through Career Counseling Connecticut for the last dozen years that those who ultimately chose to switch careers realized that they had grossly exaggerated the risk in doing so. After meeting with Career Counseling Connecticut and coming up with a career vision, my career counseling clients don’t simply quit their jobs. Instead, over a period of time – for some 3 months, for some a year or more – the career changer plans the move, sometimes with further career coaching and sometimes without. When they finally change careers, they have their plans in order and do not feel that they are taking a big risk. Most are simply excited to finally – FINALLY!!! – be doing something they love.