Putting on a facade each day? Change careers
Gretchen Rubin wrote The Happiness Project. I’m surprised by how much I like it but she writes honestly and with great insight. One of her comments about happiness relates to “feeling right”. In unpacking the idea, it essentially means feeling like you are leading the life that is right for you. In other words, you could […]
Career Accountability: We will help you change by being there
“When should meet again?” my clients almost always ask. When I was younger, I would say “I think we are good. Call me as needed but you know what to do.” My general preference for both keeping costs down and only having high impact meetings was the impetus for my response. Clients – usually the […]
Be a great career role model for your children
“Do you want your kids to follow your career path?” I ask. “You mean doing a job I hate just for the money? No way.” Common career counseling client response. “I always said I don’t want a job like my father had and now I’m wondering if my kids will say the same about me.” […]
You are not going to starve or become homeless
In my experience career counseling, most people are not too reckless but rather too safe. Maybe because Connecticut is known as the land of steady habits, my career coaching is usually centered upon showing clients how to take calculated risks. “You are not going to starve or become homeless.” That’s one of the lines I […]
Too skeptical for getting help with your career?
Most everyone who contacts Career Counseling Connecticut is terrific. Those who are career seekers are usually people who are trying to make the most of their lives, my kind of people. Many, of course, are in some ways dissatisfied with their work and even if I can make a suggestion or two informally, I’m happy […]
Career Opportunity Cost
“I should have come here years ago.” Taylor said as she explained her work drudgery. Much like many of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients, Taylor, manager in a small business in the Hartford area, had found her job through circumstance – her friend’s Uncle was the owner – and had stayed because the job “wasn’t that […]
Career change: making an average day, a great day
“Time to head back to the salt mines.” said my supervising law partner as we would leave lunch or anything else that was marginally fun. The typical metaphor of equating work with drudgery stems from the view that work days are not good days. This need not be the case. Work can be elevating. Work […]
Career Renewal in the Spring
Alex came in to see me after he was laid off. Alex worked for a large corporation in Fairfield County. The corporation was not immune to the economic restructuring of the last decade. Alex had simply been fortunate not to get the ax earlier. As he told his story, he mentioned different downsizing moves by […]
Mothers Reentering the Work Force
It is wise to enter the Mommy Wars cautiously. The battles over the best ways to be a mother are fraught with tension with the battle over those who work “outside the home” (the new phrase to ensure that those who work inside the home are not offended!) and those that stay at home (is […]
Summer: career planning
While the real answer to “when is it the best time to find a new job” is whenever you need one. And, even without such a silly response, the real answer is that the job market never stops. People do get hired even on Christmas Day. But, of course, the last two weeks in December […]