Dealing With A Career Problem: Delay Makes No Sense
My work involves solving the career problems of our clients. Perhaps the most common line after our meeting: “I should have come here a long time ago.” More than a few of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients have compared me to a career doctor so I’ll go with the metaphor: If you break your arm, you […]
How important is your career to your psychological health? Watch The Martian
Yes, The Martian is a movie. No spoiler alerts will come as the basic premise is part of the movie’s description. Matt Damon plays Mark Whatney, an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars in, what seems to be the relatively not so distance future. Watch it as it is good movie and will help you understand how […]
2017: Change your career now before you are forced to do so
I’m a natural optimist. 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 2016 gives me hope for more of the same in 2017. I’m also naturally self-conscious about appearing self-serving. Suggesting that others contact […]
Change Your Career: Don’t play small
“You are not serving anyone by playing small.” A friend sent me this quote a few years ago when I was contemplating adding service locations of The Learning Consultants beyond our Connecticut borders. I said something about being modest and needing to focus on our Connecticut clients. She noted that we would still serve our […]
Don’t Just Change Your Job But Create Your Career in 2017
“Get a better job” is a common New Year’s resolution and one of the reasons why Career Counseling Connecticut gets so many calls after January 1 of each year. The terms “job” and “career” are often interchangeable. But for purposes here, I’ll suggest that getting a new job means staying in one’s field but in […]
Career Design: Career Counseling Helps Our Clients Embrace Reality
In working with Connecticut career counseling clients for the last decade, I know that one of the biggest areas where we help our clients involves embracing reality. Perhaps because of our perceived career expertise, our career counseling clients often leave our meetings “knowing what I have to do.” “I have thought about…” our clients begin […]
Career Counseling: You have to at least try
John lived in Woodbridge, CT and worked in New Haven. He was approaching 40 and, as tends to be the case, that number caused him some life reflection. He worked in health care administration. When he started to describe his work, he stopped and said: “let’s just say I bore myself when I start talking […]
A Well Designed Career Matches Who You Are
“You are too nice to be a lawyer.” A partner at my old law firm told me. I had given up a small advantage – which would not in any way sway the outcome of the case – in a litigation battle to provide basic kindness and decency to someone battling cancer. I hope that […]
Career Change: You need to reach the boiling point
The most satisfying part of my work is solving the career puzzle for my career counseling clients: what should someone do for their career to lead to optimal happiness and success? In addition to years of reading/studying/learning and counseling on the issue, this type of problem is perfectly suited for my unique abilities. (Highly aware of […]
Career Change: I will teach you how to take the first step…
A few years ago, I worked with Hank, a late twenties New Haven based salesman for a software company. Hank got his job as many people do, a friend was working for the company and recommended Hank. This was Hank’s first real job. He had graduated Central Connecticut when the recession hit and worked […]