Career Counseling Connecticut: 2022 Post Pandemic Career Transformation
2020-2021 has taken many things from many people. My larger company – The Learning Consultants – lost the parents of several team members due to Covid. Outside of health, economic devastation in the form of lost jobs has likely had the biggest lasting impact. The other shift has been psychological. People no longer want to […]
2022: Time for a career change
Did the pandemic provide any benefits? Perpetual optimist that I am, I’ll say “yes.” People stopped going through the motions. They reflected. They realized what was important. Many decided not to settle for jobs/careers that decreased their well-being. In providing career counseling for over a decade, I can say with certainty that the reasons clients […]
Motivate Your Son… to find a career
I wrote Motivate Your Son a decade ago. Despite my normal optimistic way of viewing the world, I made a grim prediction: about 30% of young men would not be financially independent twentysomethings. Much like a forecaster who predicts a massive hurricane is coming hopes he is wrong, I, too, would have been delighted to […]
BS Work, BS Job….In 2022, leave if you have a BS Career
I curse in my head but rarely in writing. So I feel a bit odd writing about BS. But there is a a fair amount of academic attention given to what Dave Graeber labeled BS Jobs in a famous essay the made the rounds for all intellectuals studying work. I listen to my clients at […]
Tis the season change careers. Gift the gift of career counseling
“This was the best gift I’ve ever received.” Lacey, an early twenty something from Fairfield, Connecticut noted. Lacey graduated UCONN in 2018. She was a psychology major. But she had no real interest in pursuing careers as a therapist. I like people. Psychology was interesting. She did not have a job when she graduated and […]
Career Path of Abundance
I have written 3 books. This one is my favorite. It is the most personal. It likely provides the most distinct discussion of Career Counseling Connecticut’s mission. I thought of it as I read this excellent article by David Vallance. David Vallance David is a former craft beer journalist turned writer and digital […]
Are we choosing not to settle for bad jobs? We should be grateful for that reality.
Career Counseling Connecticut works with career seekers who want to be both happy and successful. That mission stems from a deep sense of gratitude. Sometimes our clients use phrases like: “I can’t just quit because I need to eat.” Those who are reading this post are not going to literally starve. Historically, those who did […]
The Metaverse, BlockChain, CryptoCurrency…. Guiding you (and your children) to the New World of Work
There has never been a 25 year period in world history that has dealt with as much structural work change as 1997-2022. This is not hyperbolic. The Industrial Revolution is the only time frame that comes close and that lasted 75 years. The Internet Revolution – if that’s what “this” ends up being called – […]
Isn’t it a hot job market? If so, why am I having a difficult time getting hired? We can help.
Why millions of job seekers aren’t getting hired in this hot job marketJob seekers increasingly want higher pay, more flexibility, and remote options. Meanwhile, companies continue to favor candidates with several years of experience, availability to work evening or weekend hours, and willingness to work in-person. Read in The Washington Post: https://apple.news/Ag2PYY_jTTK2LGXe1owpGRA Joe came into Career […]
Does your career match your moral values?
Have you read Bad Blood? Great book. It details the demise of a highly touted Silicon Valley company Theranos and the deception of Elizabeth Holmes who by many accounts is a highly functioning sociopath. Sociopaths often destroy those close to them. But Holmes was brilliant and captivating enough to potentially destroy the lives of […]