Sunday scaries… time to think about leaving

If you are reading Career Counseling Connecticut’s blog on a Sunday or a Monday, then you know what I mean…. Sometime around mid-day, you will start to feel a creeping anxiety or an enhanced state of melancholy. You should be enjoying your weekend. But subconscious thoughts about work are sliding into your conscious mind. I know. I was there for many years during my legal career. Seems like ancient history since it was turn of the century but I remember the feeling as if it were yesterday. It was quite profound. Indeed, I have a bizarre memory of JFK Jr.’s plane crash. (Just checked – July 16, 1999). I was at a cool outdoor market in Stony Creek (Branford CT). Trying to bolster my mood, I reminded myself to be grateful for life. Good self-coaching. But I also thought: if I have to feel grateful that I wasn’t in a plane crash in an effort to make myself feel better about going to work the next day, then I really should change my work! I think this work has become such a passion for me because of my own story. I was a lawyer.  Not only “a lawyer” since I practiced but someone who told people I would be a lawyer since around the age of 8.  No joke.  My parents and other adults seemed to nod with approval.  Moreover, in broad strokes, someone who “wanted to make a difference”, was verbal and liked school… law also made sense until it didn’t!  Public service law was great for me.  Private practice was not. When I built Career Counseling Connecticut, it was a side project.  The Learning Consultants was my main company.  That it grew without marketing – other than this blog has been the result of my deep commitment to help others and word of mouth from those who escaped the Sunday blues. Let’s get yo Career Counseling Connecticut