Help for Parents to Help Their Twentysomethings with Their Career
The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning for Your Twentysomething Just released. While my self-consciousness about self-promotion always makes me resist the urge to suggest buying, I will say that the few people that I’ve shared the book with have been wildly enthusiastic in relation to how it will help them help their children. To be […]
Careers: The Trouble With Boys to Men
In 2012, I wrote Motivate Your Son. Based on my experience running The Learning Consultants, I observed a plethora of boys struggling in school. In 2015 I wrote Career Path of Abundance. This work focused on how we can find work that could lead to happiness and success. It was an aspirational work, focused on […]
2020: Change Your Career Before You Are Forced to Do So
In building Career Counseling Connecticut, I love that I can provide hope to those in Connecticut who want to change their careers. So many happy career-changing clients from 2019 gives me hope for more of the same in 2020. I’m a natural optimist. But I’m also a practical one. Some things like the changing workforce […]
2020: Time for a new career
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 the 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 […]
Would a good career stop drug addiction? Yes.
A long while ago, I realized that my career counseling work had a higher purpose than helping people find better careers. The work sometimes saved lives – perhaps not literally – but in providing career direction to those who otherwise would drift down a psychological wormhole of anxiety and depression due to their unhappy jobs. […]
Who really helps your career?
Recent clients of Career Counseling Connecticut have noted some common themes: “I realize that I pay for a trainer at the gym or for a yoga class to help me get in shape but I’ve never paid for help with my career.” “I see a therapist about my anxiety. But I’ve never seen a career […]
Do you feel happy to go back to work?
Cindy immediately exclaimed her dread about going back to work when she sat down in Career Counseling Connecticut’s office. “I knew I had to shift careers when I was ending my last vacation. During the two days of a week-long vacation, I grew increasingly anxious about having to do my work projects when I returned. […]
The Future of Work: Parents Take Notice
I’m reading Workless by Tim Dunlop a researcher who studies work trends. He aims to be optimistic. But the premise of the book is terrifying. In the next 10-30 years, many jobs will be eliminated due to some combination of artificial intelligence, apps that automate processes, and smart robots. The optimistic take by Dunlop: there […]
2020: Parents Help Your Children With Their Career
Parents who call Career Counseling Connecticut increasingly tell me that they face a question where they do not have a clear answer: Should we help our adult children with their career challenges? The answer is simple: “yes”. My generation – 50 and over – was profoundly affected by scores of movies, TV shows, and general […]
2020: Career Goals For Twenty and Thirtysomethings
As a fiftysomething, I have some perspective on how to help twenty and thirtysomethings develop their careers. The biggest piece of advice: DO NOT PUT YOUR CAREER ON AUTOPILOT. Those who have career traction in a field tend to settle in and, of course, in some cases that makes sense. Such types have chosen their […]