Career Counseling Connecticut: We have become a mental health resource
In the last few months, I have had many parents call Career Counseling Connecticut on behalf of their children. The stories are reasonably similar. Their children – seemingly more sons than daughters – graduated in the last few years from college or are in the midst of “interrupted college” = and have not developed career […]
Career Counseling 2023: Are you happy to be back at work?
I know…. I may have just asked a rhetorical question that in this case means “no” for you. But that’s not the case for some. Yes, of course, most everyone would prefer vacation to work, even enjoyable work. Yet, for some, the start of the week after a prolonged vacation is welcomed or at least […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Unhappy careers make unhappy people and adds to the mental health crisis
“Bryan’s dad killed himself.” I was 17 and Bryan was a high school classmate. By all accounts, Bryan’s dad had been happy until… he was laid off. In the 1980s, not having a job was stigmatizing for all men but particularly middle-aged men supporting families. I don’t know the circumstances of his layoff. But he was […]
A New Year’s Gift for Your Twentysomething Idealistic Child… and for you
Let’s kick off 2023 with a giant understatement: career planning has changed. Young people have different views regarding how they see their careers playing out. If you are like many parents of twentysomethings, this might be causing you some challenge. One of the challenges: what can you as a parent do to help your twentysomething […]
2023: Time for a New Career Finally… and Career Counseling Connecticut Is Often Needed
After meeting with Career Counseling Connecticut and coming up with a career vision, my career counseling clients don’t simply quit their jobs. Instead, over a period of time – for some 3 months, for some a year or more – the career changer plans the move, sometimes with further career coaching and sometimes without. When […]
2023: The Pandemic Is Over! Time to get back to healthy career building
The tumult of the last few years has led to Career Counseling Connecticut working overtime on how to help our clients navigate their careers. Some lessons: Career and life happiness are intermingled Quiet Quitting, The Great Resignation and the FIRE Movement illustrate the point. Quiet Quitting is the saddest of these three concepts. I fully […]
“Accountability”- an underrated benefit of career coaching: The reason why even great athletes need a coach.
“I think we are good.” I said to Terri. We had a wonderful initial meeting. We both fully believed that the new career direction we discussed was well suited for her and that the strategy we decided upon would be effective. Terri said: “I appreciate your efforts to conserve my budget. But my career is too […]
2023!!!! Are you looking forward to going back to work? If not, time for job-career change.
With hope, most of Career Counseling Connecticut’s readers are enjoying a long holiday. Some of my Christmas cards are from past clients who came to Career Counseling Connecticut feeling miserable about their careers and now feel good-great. Google “Sunday anxiety” and you may be surprised by the sheer volume of articles addressing work dread. I […]
2023: The Year To Change Your Career
I hope we are through the pandemic. If so, there are some blessings beyond the gratitude for normalcy. People had time to reflect. In doing so, many workers realized that they were spending a large part of their lives in an unhappy state. They did not like their job or career or both. That fact […]
Anxiety from work? Career Counseling Connecticut can help
“I wake up on edge… every day.” Samantha said. As she continued, I could hear the emotion in her voice. She had called Career Counseling Connecticut after she “hit her limit.” Samantha had the proverbial “good job”. She works for a large corporation in Fairfield County, Connecticut. But she said she’s been working really hard […]