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 […]
You will figure it out! How Career Changers Succeed
At my best… which was not always the case in my 30s when I built The Learning Consultants… but has become more frequent as The Learning Consultants and its subsidiary Career Counseling Connecticut reaches year 20, I think “I will figure it out” when a problem arises. “I don’t know how to do bookkeeping or […]
Former GE Employees: We can help
“You start doing something and close your eyes long enough, you can’t imagine doing anything else.” a bartender explaining why he still works at a bar despite being an alcoholic in The Numbers Station (a forgettable John Cusack film). My friends at General Electric would sometimes talk to me similarly. They were “institutionalized”. Each had worked at […]
The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why putting more time into a mismatched career makes no sense
“It’s kind of like chasing good money after bad in gambling, right?” Ryan, a twenty four year old financial analyst from Stamford said. I was explaining the sunk cost fallacy. We have a built in bias to weigh more heavily on avoiding past losses than acquiring future gains. In Ryan’s case, he majored in finance, didn’t really […]
Regret: More painful than failing
As my peers are now in their 50s, I’m regularly having conversations with those who have gone through the bulk of their careers. I think of my friends and one conclusion is unmistakable: those that took some risk – not great risk – but some risk to shift their careers in a manner that better […]