Career Counseling Connecticut works with career seekers who want to be both happy and successful.
That mission stems from a deep sense of gratitude.
Sometimes our clients use phrases like: “I can’t just quit because I need to eat.” Those who are reading this post are not going to literally starve. Historically, those who did not work might literally starve.
I am not being cavalier. I am being grateful. We are all really lucky that – relatively speaking – we live with enormous abundance. My twentysomething clients who can’t find jobs or at least jobs that lead to financial indepedence do not starve, do not go homeless, and, indeed, likely live with more material prosperity than most people in the history of the world and wide swaths of the world’s current population. Yes, it may because they are living with their parents or live-in partner or occasionally good friends. Similarly, my older clients who are not working either are getting unemployment or have some money saved or are accessing credit. That’s the fortunate situation we find themselves in.
So maybe we are just not settling for jobs that suck our life away.
I commented on this subject recently on NBC News.