Career advice: Life passes by unless you take control
“I guess I thought something would change.” Denise said. She took a job in 2008 at a hotel in Mystic, Connecticut. She was just happy to have a job as the country was entering into the teeth of the Great Recession. Having graduated from Eastern Connecticut with a business major, she thought working at a […]
Career Advice for Twenty and Thirtysomethings: Here’s how to avoid a mid-life crisis
My friends are now middle aged. Fortunately, most all are in good health. So, for those who have had a mid-life crisis, the cause stemmed only from (1) relationship troubles and (2) career troubles. Those are the two big blocks of life happiness for most people. If you get those 2 right, keep in good […]
That’s a big reason why I started my company…
My son attends Old Saybrook High School in Connecticut and was suffering over typical inane rules that govern our education system. “You have to follow the rules of people who have authority over you.” I explained. I was definitely not an unquestioning rule follower when I was his age. I would ask “why” if I […]
Career Change: Imagine doing something else
“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 will sometimes talk to me in a way that makes me realize that they […]
Career Change: It rarely is ever “the right time”
“I always thought it was not the right time. When 40 approached, I realized that there will never be the right time.” Melanie, a mid-level manager at a bank in Shoreline, Connecticut said.As Melanie told her tale, I mentally checked off some of the usual reasons:(1) even though she quickly realized it was a mismatched […]
Rainy Monday morning… are you excited to go to work?
“Rainy days of Monday always get me down…” I think this is an old Carpenter’s song. I used to feel anxiety on Mondays and other random days because I had to go to work. Now… as strange as this sounds… I am often excited to get to work, on any particular day, because I get […]
Career Happiness: Can you be yourself?
Zappos is the online retailer that has disrupted the way that most companies empower their employees. It gives two guidelines to its customer service personnel: 1. Be yourself2. Use your judgment Can you be yourself at your job? If not, your lack of authenticity will begin to wear on you. I have several good friends […]
The connection between unhappy work and psychological issues
Career Counseling Connecticut is designed to help our career counseling clients with the very practical need of finding better work. Getting our clients onto a different career track requires a deep knowledge of the work world; an ability to guide our clients correctly on the proper path towards better suited careers; and a thoroughly practical […]
Happy Work Leads to Successful Work
In providing career counseling for a decade to our Career Counseling Connecticut’s clientele, I have observed the reciprocal causation between happiness and success. Our cultural model provides the following: Be successful first and then happiness will come next. Success causes happiness. True but only to a degree. I have provided career counseling to numerous “successful” […]
The Strange Education Paradox: Enormous work to help young adults get into college (4 years). Minimal work to help young adults after college (40-50 years).
My initial work in the education space was the creation of The Learning Consultants, Connecticut’s largest private education consulting firm. I left practicing law because I had a genuine calling for educating and counseling others to reach their potential. It was my mission. I wish I could claim entrepreneurial foresight in predicting that my work […]