Career Security: The biggest surprise is that a successful business is more secure than a successful job.
I started my first business in 2000. I am not a Connecticut native. I knew few people in Connecticut. I was entering an area (education) where I had credentials but no experience. I was taking a conventionally enormous “risk” in leaving a “secure” profession (law) with secure jobs (at the time, lawyers usually had job […]
Optimistic real world advice versus optimistic delusion thinking
” I have been working in human resources for 30 years. I’m sick of it and want to try something new.” So began an e-mail exchange with Judy, a 55 year old HR executive in Hartford. I have absolutely no interest in filling my calendar with people that I cannot help so I often ask […]
Enjoyable work leading to success at work
Those fortunate enough to enjoy healthy food have the great luck that what they enjoy an activity that is also good for them. How I wish that homemade bread was good for me! Those who are in careers in which they are doing activities that they like have similar great fortune. While lawyers are not […]
Career Happiness and Mental Health
70% of the suicides in this country are committed by middle aged men. I was stunned by that percentage. I then recalled that the first suicide that touched me was of a soccer teammate’s father. By all accounts, he was a great guy with a happy family. But this was the 1980s when not having […]
The New World of Careers In Organization
I was watching a video from Big Think on the changing nature of employment. As I discussed in Career Path of Abundance, the new world of work will present employment situations more like those in the entertainment field. We sometimes forget that all those movie and TV actors are in project based work without work that […]
Career Change Necessity: The Frog In The Slowly Boiling Pot
I saw it when Pfizer began shifting its Connecticut operations and I’m seeing it again as General Electric ponders its Connecticut ties. Lives disrupted due to corporate decisions. This is definitely not an anti-corporate rant. Pfizer treated its employees very well during its semi-exodus from Southeastern, CT. I hope GE does so as it transitions […]
Career Goals: Time Affluence
“I have no time for anything that I want to do.” Sean said. Sean commuted from Fairfield to Stamford back and forth each day. Someday someone will solve Connecticut’s I-95 challenge. For now, Sean’s only other option was the train but both his house and office were not conveniently located to make Metro-North a better […]
4 Career Archetypes: Which one are you?
Tal Ben-Shahar teaches the most popular course at Harvard. The class presumably has a more academic title but it is basically a class on how to be happy. Among the many nuggets of wisdom that Ben-Shahar presents is a 4 archetype examination of people on the happiness spectrum. Unquestionably, most everyone is a mixture of each […]
Multi-jobbing: The New Path to Career Success
As I was writing about my work as a part time college professor, I realized that there is a valuable lesson for those in career change mode. The new world of work will require multi-jobbing for many. I’ll explain my story to provide context. When I started to build The Learning Consultants, 15 years ago, I […]
Career Lessons From Past Presidents
I teach a college class on The Modern Presidency. I find the persons behind the Presidency fascinating and in this case instructive for our career counseling clients. For the sake of balancing out the parties, I’ll focus on Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. My comments will have nothing to do with their policies, personal morals, and […]