Career Happiness: Can you be yourself?
Zappos is the online retailer that has disrupted the way that most companies empower their employees. It gives two guidelines to its customer service personnel: 1. Be yourself2. Use your judgment Can you be yourself at your job? If not, your lack of authenticity will begin to wear on you. I have several good friends […]
The connection between unhappy work and psychological issues
Career Counseling Connecticut is designed to help our career counseling clients with the very practical need of finding better work. Getting our clients onto a different career track requires a deep knowledge of the work world; an ability to guide our clients correctly on the proper path towards better suited careers; and a thoroughly practical […]
Happy Work Leads to Successful Work
In providing career counseling for a decade to our Career Counseling Connecticut’s clientele, I have observed the reciprocal causation between happiness and success. Our cultural model provides the following: Be successful first and then happiness will come next. Success causes happiness. True but only to a degree. I have provided career counseling to numerous “successful” […]
The Strange Education Paradox: Enormous work to help young adults get into college (4 years). Minimal work to help young adults after college (40-50 years).
My initial work in the education space was the creation of The Learning Consultants, Connecticut’s largest private education consulting firm. I left practicing law because I had a genuine calling for educating and counseling others to reach their potential. It was my mission. I wish I could claim entrepreneurial foresight in predicting that my work […]
Happy work post 65 – not retirement – should be the new goal
I am so delighted that science has backed up what common sense has dictated. Aging well stems from (1) happy work (2) diet and (3) exercise. And, many would claim in that order. Every bit of evidence that I’ve studied on the subject indicates how foolish our society has been to make 65 a mandatory […]
Your career represents who you are
“My life is my message.” Mahatma Gandhi. About 16 years ago, I met Ruma through a friend of a friend. She was a young, striving, go-getter who wanted to get into the education space. On her drives from Boston to New York, she would stop in Connecticut periodically to meet with me since I was […]
Good work as the best medicine for depression
“That’s a recipe for depression.” My wife noted when I told her about one of my friends who has been “fortunate” enough to not have to work for the last few years. He’s in the entertainment industry. He had a few big movie and television projects that generated significant income. He’s single and he’s really […]
Career Change: Give Yourself A Second Chance
“I feel stuck.” David said about his sales job for a media entity based in New York. David’s territory extended from his home in Fairfield County up through Boston and down to Philadelphia. He could essentially alternate telecommuting one week with travel the next. Battling I-95 South in Connecticut to New York or battling I-95 […]
“Ideally, you should work until you are at least 75…”
There is no one to blame for the quote except me. I found myself saying this to a 55 year old soon to be former GE employee who is not going to move to Boston as GE departs Connecticut. Living in Fairfield County has its benefits and one of those is that those who bought […]
A new job at mid-life for a long, healthy, happy life
Quit Your Job is the most important article you read should today if you are unhappy at your job: A big excerpt: “According to Gallup pollsters, only one-third of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are engaged by their work. Jim Harter, Gallup’s chief scientist for workplace management and well-being, says about half of Boomer and Gen […]