“I love my work” – the authentic answer from career changers
I am on vacation right now. Our beach hotel has a wonderful breakfast spot overlooking the water. So I’ve come here the last three days and have breakfast alone – with my computer – since my wife and three teens sleep later than me. Today, the hostess asked, “are you always working?” “I love my […]
Parents: Prepare Your Children’s Careers. Winter is Coming
By nature and mind training, I am an optimist and positive thinker. I love lowering the stress of my career counseling clients. This post will not display any of these traits. But it is a necessary one. The world of work has changed rapidly in the last couple of decades. But it will change even more […]
Matching Who You Are With Career Success
I am watching a movie from a decade ago – Changing Lanes – that resonated with me because it highlighted my experience with big law firms. Sam Jackson plays a down on his luck guy who gets entangled with Ben Affleck’s character, a morally questionable attorney who starts wondering whether he can stomach the ethics of […]
Career Counseling: “I need to meet with you for accountability”
“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. My focus in creating Career Counseling Connecticut was to provide highly dynamic life changing […]
Why effective career counseling process can change lives
“This is so strange. I feel like I’ve changed my career vision more in this 1 hour than I have in the last 5 years.” Lauren said as she was leaving. Lauren had been stuck in a sales-customer service role for a large company of which she had passion for neither the products nor the […]
Over 40? Take charge of your career change.
Good interview on CBS News. If you are over 40, plan your career change We are all rooting for Connecticut to come out of its financial challenges. Those over 40 should continue rooting but also affirmatively start to plan their next move. My work in career counseling is grounded in hope. I do not like […]
Arranged marriages lead to happiness more than “love marriages” – what this means for your career
“I’m waiting to find something I’m passionate about.” Kim said as she relayed her days working retail in the Clinton outlets in Connecticut. Kim had graduated from Fairfield University four years prior to coming to Career Counseling Connecticut. Her “career” had consisted of an office assistant’s job at her Dad’s friend’s law firm in New […]
On why creative types need business/entrepreneur training…
Mike entered my office as if he was carrying a bag of rocks on his shoulders. Defeated, despondent, and a step away from clinical depression, his mother begged him to see me because his older brother, Matt, had used Career Counseling Connecticut several years ago. Mike resisted. “I know what I want to do. I […]
On the importance of career…work is time….time is life
“I just read an article about work and time and it freaked me out.” Dave said as he started our career counseling session. “We spend more time working than anything else. So if we do not enjoy our time at work then we are not enjoying a large part of our life. I’ve gone from […]
Is skepticism holding you back from making better career choices?
“I was worried about contacting a career counselor because my friends told me to be careful,” Brendan, a young thirty-something from Middletown said. As the discussion progressed, it became clear that Brendan took no risks in his career because of both his natural skepticism and his main influencers – his friends and parents, all of […]