Career Counseling Connecticut: Happiness leads to Career Success
Many moons ago, I walked into the law library of my large Washington, DC law firm. One of the partners was reading a journal of recent legal decisions. As he sat in a large reading chair as if he were reading a great novel, the partner I was standing next to noted: “Alex does this […]
Are you anxious? Maybe a CAREER counselor not a therapist counselor is what’s needed
“You helped more in one hour than she has in 20 sessions,” Emily said in relation to work with Career Counseling Connecticut versus her work with a psychologist. The reason was obvious: Emily needed career help. Her therapist dealt with coping with the anxiety of her career. That’s needed. But it seemed clear that Emily […]
Career Change Connecticut 2022: The Movie of Your Life
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. A complete failure to understand that career exploration is not the same as career change […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: 2022 Post Pandemic Career Transformation
2020-2021 has taken many things from many people. My larger company – The Learning Consultants – lost the parents of several team members due to Covid. Outside of health, economic devastation in the form of lost jobs has likely had the biggest lasting impact. The other shift has been psychological. People no longer want to […]
2022: Time for a career change
Did the pandemic provide any benefits? Perpetual optimist that I am, I’ll say “yes.” People stopped going through the motions. They reflected. They realized what was important. Many decided not to settle for jobs/careers that decreased their well-being. In providing career counseling for over a decade, I can say with certainty that the reasons clients […]
Motivate Your Son… to find a career
I wrote Motivate Your Son a decade ago. Despite my normal optimistic way of viewing the world, I made a grim prediction: about 30% of young men would not be financially independent twentysomethings. Much like a forecaster who predicts a massive hurricane is coming hopes he is wrong, I, too, would have been delighted to […]
BS Work, BS Job….In 2022, leave if you have a BS Career
I curse in my head but rarely in writing. So I feel a bit odd writing about BS. But there is a a fair amount of academic attention given to what Dave Graeber labeled BS Jobs in a famous essay the made the rounds for all intellectuals studying work. I listen to my clients at […]
Tis the season change careers. Gift the gift of career counseling
“This was the best gift I’ve ever received.” Lacey, an early twenty something from Fairfield, Connecticut noted. Lacey graduated UCONN in 2018. She was a psychology major. But she had no real interest in pursuing careers as a therapist. I like people. Psychology was interesting. She did not have a job when she graduated and […]
Career Path of Abundance
I have written 3 books. This one is my favorite. It is the most personal. It likely provides the most distinct discussion of Career Counseling Connecticut’s mission. I thought of it as I read this excellent article by David Vallance. David Vallance David is a former craft beer journalist turned writer and digital […]
Are we choosing not to settle for bad jobs? We should be grateful for that reality.
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 […]