College Graduation Gift: Career Counseling
“I didn’t really look for a job during senior year.” Trey said. Only a short while ago – maybe 10 years – this would have a crazy statement. Now, I’m not surprised. I see some advantages to the hands-off approach that many parents take to their children’s job search. One less area of battle. I […]
The best mental health help for your young adult child: Career Counseling
As college graduation approaches in May, nervous parents have called about their children not being employed. Most parents – I suppose the moms more than the dads – focused far more on the potential mental health implications of post-graduation unemployment rather than the financial implications. This is a historical anomaly. I am not even referring […]
Career Guidance 2024: 3 New Ways of Understanding the New World of Work
If there is one area that has separated Career Counseling Connecticut from other counselors, it has been our focus on the evolving nature of work. Most career counselors – like most anyone over 40 – are stuck in paradigms ingrained from the 1990s/2000s. Historically, such a short time frame to the present would not cause […]
The Wild West of Career Building: Young adults need direction
“There are specialists and there are everyone else.” Most are “everyone else”. Graduating college with a business degree – unless it is accounting or some other technical aspect within business”, most everything within liberal arts and many other degrees requires a deeper understanding of how to navigate careers than ever before. This is not bad […]
I spend more money on a couple of fancy dinners than on career development…?!
Said a recent client when he told me that he had read my book Career Path of Abundance several years ago and wanted to call but he was worried about spending money. He told me that he had an epiphany while he was taking his girlfriend out to a restaurant that he felt wasn’t even worth […]
Career Unhappiness: A Worldwide Problem… that does not need to be the case for most Americans
I play chess on Chess.com. Players from all over the world are on the site. Country flags are next to the name of each player. (Most everyone chooses a nickname rather than give their real name). A player from Morocco struck up a conversation with me on the message part of the site. He is […]
The time is NOW!!!
We were conditioned through K-12 (and college) to have built in time for a change. Every September, relatively big changes came in relation to your “work world”. New teachers/new classes and then massive changes came when switching schools and leaving to college. Change does not happen like that in the real world. There is a […]
Unhappy at work…. soon enough you will be unsuccessful also
I remember when I was a summer associate at a big Washington law firm. I walked into the law library. One of the partners was reading a journal of recent legal decisions. He wasn’t merely reading the headlines. He was actually reading the entire 50 plus pages of dense court decisions. As he sat in […]
Your financial freedom “number” – if you like your work, you are already free
One of my friends in the financial industry recently said to me “everyone has a number”, meaning the amount of money in the bank needed to quit or retire. For those who have been battling through tough corporate or other purely practical jobs, the “number” is part of their escape route from a job they […]
The Creator Economy: Even in Connecticut… a new world of work is emerging
I live in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The town name embodies at least some part of the “OLD” classic New England town filled with families, some of whom have been here for generations and otherwise traditional types whose kids for the most part follow traditional routes. Oddly enough, just going to East Lyme, Connecticut, filled with […]