Financial Analysis of the Worse Case Career Scenario
In the prior post, I described Jay’s layoff from a large company in northern Connecticut. Money is always the big worry for my career counseling clients contemplating career change. So, I thought it would be helpful to precisely describe what happened to someone who lost his job and had business failure. The hope is that […]
Take A Career Risk: Your Worse Case Scenario Might Not Be So Bad
Jay is a friend, not a career counseling client. He was laid off from his upper management job at a well known company in the northern part of Connecticut four years ago. From his perspective, the lay off was completely unexpected. He was 47 at the time. His wife didn’t work. They have two children, […]
Real friends will encourage positive career exploration
My wife Francie decided to get her Phd at age 44. She already had her undergraduate and master’s degree. But she always wanted a doctorate and was given a full graduate assistant fellowship to the University of Connecticut. I was delighted. She would be making the most of her potential and I know it would […]
DECIDE to Change Your Career
“I’m going to change my career.” Nancy said with a look of elation. “I don’t know exactly how but you helped Donna change her career and she was even more lost than me.” Nancy was in the financial department of a big company in eastern Connecticut. Nancy’s work life wasn’t terrible and the company that […]
Career Hope: The Happy Future of Your Work
“There is always hope.” I think this is a line from Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina. Or so I told myself as I walked out of my law office on a chilly December day about 16 years ago. Like many career seekers, I was lost. Fortunately, even in my darkest career hour, I still had the […]
Happy Career: Even the bad days are pretty good
Dave, an account manager at a large retail organization in Hartford, was scheduled to meet me in Old Saybrook a few weeks ago for a career counseling session. He called to say he was under the weather but could meet by Skype. Dave noted that he didn’t like going to work on days he was […]
Career Counseling As A Way To Enhance Your Life
“I know you don’t call yourself a life coach but that’s what you have become to my sister. I think I need your help.” so began a phone call from Evelyn, a thirtysomething New Haven based freelance graphic artist. She was right on all counts: I don’t call myself a life coach as my work […]
The exploratory work needed to move from a job to a career to a calling.
I share to provide hope. I believe that my career path has the same start as many of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients. The end should be your focus.I have had many jobs. Starting at 16: fry guy at Roy Rogers; doorman/bellhop for a high end hotel, waiter at a country club, assembly line worker, dishwasher, […]
Career Creation v. Career Reaction
If I had to think of the number one thing that my career counseling clients can do to change their careers, it would be embracing the notion of career creation.“What will you do if General Electric leaves Connecticut?” I asked a former tutor of The Learning Consultants who wrote me last year about taking a junior […]
Career: One of the Big Rocks
Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame showed a wonderful video of illustrating the need to put first things first. In simple summary, when given a collection of rocks and a jar, you need to put the big rocks in first and then let the little rocks slip in around the rocks in order […]