Stuck in your career?
“I literally feel like jumping out a window.” Ted, a 45-year-old hedge fund manager from Westport, Connecticut, said this as he grabbed my arm for emphasis. “I feel like a square peg in a round hole every day.” Sarah, a middle manager in her 30s from New Haven, CT, described the exhaustion of performing a […]
The career risk of staying at a job you hate
You might not view yourself as a brand. But you are in the employment market. The longer you work in a job, the longer you brand yourself in that career path. So when I hear… “I despise my job.” I silently think: rescuse this person from herself. As a career counselor working with clients across […]
Why are you waiting to start your career?
Several years ago, a young woman—I’ll call her Lucy—came to me for career counseling in Madison, CT. She was working as a hostess at a well-known Madison restaurant. When she walked into my office, I recognized her immediately. “Don’t you work at [restaurant]?” I asked. She smiled—but it was a smile marked by frustration. “I’ve […]
College to Career: The New Big Decision
I met with my accountant yesterday. During tax time, he meets with his Connecticut clientele and hears concerns about their financial decision. He’s interested in my work as a career counselor and relayed that many of his clients are very worried about both college cost and the college investment. Many Connecticut parents are spending $100-$300,000 […]
Career Counseling: Parents of Twentysomethings
The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning for Your Twentysomething While my self-consciousness about self-promotion always makes me resist the urge to suggest buying, I will say that the few people that I’ve shared the book with have been enthusiastic in relation to how it will help them help their children. To be clear, the audience […]
Edit your career vision… and then your resume
“I really need to edit my resume.” Talia started on her initial call to Career Counseling Connecticut. She explained that she was working in a dead-end job and had started applying to different jobs with no success. That she worked in a retail job and was wondering why she was not getting interviews for jobs […]
The process created the action: How Career Counseling Connecticut automatically helps…
I love my career counseling work because it connects directly to how I derive purpose in the world. The thank-you notes are a pleasant bonus. From time to time, clients send an email describing how a specific piece of advice made a meaningful difference in their career. I would like to think that every client […]
Liberal arts majors… maybe now is your time?
The most difficult part of my career counseling work is advising recent college graduates who were not well-educated by their colleges about the current realities of the job market. I will put film majors, multi-media majors, and pretty much every major steeped in creativity in with liberal arts majors. These are my brethren, as I’ll […]
Your career is a large part of your life… why wait?
This Is Your Life Most everyone – except young twentysomethings – who leaves a career counseling meeting with Career Counseling Connecticut – says: “I should have come here earlier.” Why do people wait? They are not trained to make things happen. School – the magical K to first grade to second grade… through twelfth grade […]
Your best retirement plan: Help your children become financially independent
Career Counseling Connecticut When Supporting Your Twentysomethings Becomes a Long-Term Financial Plan Recently, I was reflecting on several friends and realized something striking. Most of them are still financially supporting their young adult children. Rent. Car payments. Insurance. Phone bills. Sometimes, even discretionary spending. One friend in Guilford, Connecticut, has three twentysomethings. He and his […]