If you don’t change your career, your career will change your life
Anxiety and depression have become epidemics in our society. Since the inception of Career Counseling Connecticut, we have realized that some part of both could be curtailed if people had happier work. I recall a client from a few years ago who I will call Jessica. She walked in for our career counseling session and […]
Are you ending the year at the same job that you hate?
“I should have come here years ago.” So say many who come to the offices of Career Counseling Connecticut. Hard to believe that we are approaching Thanksgiving and then year-end soon thereafter. If you started the year with a resolution to switch jobs or careers and you are still trudging off to an unhappy job, […]
“Identity”: Another pillar for career happiness
When Career Counseling Connecticut has been part of the transformation of a career seeker’s life, we have facilitated a process whereby our career counseling client was engaged in a job that did not feel authentic and then shifted to a career path that did. Here’s what I mean: Think of an artist. The work of […]
Autonomy one pillar of career happiness
I recall walking past my boss’s office with trepidation. I was an associate at a law firm and the law partner in charge of my work had control of both my future at the firm and my daily production. That was over twenty years ago. But I can still vividly recall that feeling. When I […]
Parents of Twentysomethings: Career Help Is Needed
This article: Most Americans think young adults should be financially independent by 22—but only 24% are explains the genesis of my new book: The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning For Your Twentysomething. As parents of our generation have discovered, sending kids to college does not lead to career-building jobs post-college.
The Robots Are Coming: Save Your Children, Get Career Help
Robot automation will take 800 million jobs by 2030.2 —McKinsey Global Institute Despite being a fan of The Terminator, I am a hard-wired optimist. Notions of dystopic future worlds do not scare me because I believe “we’ll figure it out.” Indeed, I am confident that some of us will figure it out despite the onslaught of AI that will gradually replace millions of jobs done by […]
Shocking article on mental health and careers. Get help for you and your adult children now
Shocking article The number of young adults with mental health issues is skyrocketing. The article was stunning because it attributes some part of the mental health crisis on career unhappiness. If you are a parent, you have every reason to be concerned. Career Counseling Connecticut can help.
You pay for a gym membership but not a career coach?!
Not all my clients are as bold as Lucy. She routinely urges her friends and acquaintances who are having career challenges to make an appointment with Career Counseling Connecticut. She’s pushy but in a funny way. She often lets me know that one of her contacts will be calling and then will relay how she […]
Help your young adult children create financially stable careers
The middle and even upper middle classes of adults in their twenties and thirties are really struggling. The New York Times article is sobering. Indeed, do not read it if you are prone to stress! As a father of three who are entering and soon will be entering the work world and young adulthood, I couldn’t […]
Parents of Twentysomethings: Career help is on the way
Career Counseling Connecticut helps clients of all ages in surprisingly equal doses. I have been consistently astonished by how many thirty-forty-fifty somethings have come for career help. But as a parent, I empathize with the helpless feeling of not being able to help one’s own children. My next book is The Parent’s Guide to Career […]