Career Change: The bigger fear should be staying put
“I know I should leave my career but I’m too scared.” Sandra said. “Every time I take steps forward, I become anxious and stop.” Sandra was in her early thirties and commuting 1 hour plus each way from Guilford to Stamford through Connecticut’s bearish I-95 each morning. She would need a career make-over as her […]
Making Time For Career Exploration
“I guess I’ll be painting the house, running errands, and driving my kids to activities.” Scott answered when I asked him what he would be doing this weekend. He noted that the combination of home projects, shopping, and chauffeuring his children to activities – as well as watching them in their activities – was pretty […]
Summer In Connecticut: A Great Time and Place For Career Change
Jessica told me about her summer plans. We spend a week in Groton Long Point where my Uncle has a house. Then, we go to Block Island for a few days, and then back to Mystic for most of the summer. She mentioned a couple of sprint triathlons that she would do along various wonderful […]
Why Career Counseling Will Help You Get “A Job”
Michael, a high achieving, personable recent college graduate, from Branford relayed to me his job searching woes. He had been searching for “jobs” in a variety of online job boards. He had looked through “job listings” within his college’s career services online listings. He had told friends and relatives that he was looking for a […]
Helping Career Clients Understand the New Economy
Jennifer left the workforce in 1995 to raise children. Having graduated near the top of her class at Fairfield University in the mid-1980s, she had almost a decade of excellent work experience for several established Connecticut industrial companies. In 2012, she contacted me and now laughs about her approach. “I am going to reenter the […]
Summer Career Change Planning
“I can’t believe it is summer. I thought I would be doing somthing else for work by now.” Janice said. Janice was a 25 year old engineer in the New Haven area. She was an engineer because she was good at math in high school. There was really no other reason other than simply going […]
Career Change: Opportunity Cost
“I should have come here years ago.” Taylor said as she explained her work drudgery. Much like many of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients, Taylor, manager in a small business in the Hartford area, had found her job through circumstance – her friend’s Uncle was the owner – and had stayed because the job “wasn’t that […]
Women Reentering The Work Force
It is wise to enter the Mommy Wars cautiously. The battles over the best ways to be a mother are fraught with tension with the battle over those who work “outside the home” (the new phrase to ensure that those who work inside the home are not offended!) and those that stay at home (is […]
Taking Control of Your Career
“Thank you. I feel in control of my life for the first time in a long while.” Jessica said. She had been working 6 intense years for a law firm in Stamford. The demanding work load was an issue but the bigger challenge for Jessica was the lack of control she felt in relation to […]
Big Trend: Employee Free Society
Some big thinkers have postulated that the employer-employee relationship will radically shift in the next 20 years. We all grew up in the world of “employment”. We’ve taken for granted that getting a job working for someone else is the normal way of living. It wasn’t dominant until a couple hundred years ago. Farmers, merchants, […]