Purpose: The Career Cure For Depression
Alex relayed his past psychological history: reasonably happy through high school at Xavier in Middletown, CT. Happy during his freshmen year at Boston College as a pre-med. Gradual onset of depression between his freshman and sophomore year stemming from his realization that he did not want to be pre-med but no other alternative. Upward mood […]
Gratitude that you can change careers
Allison’s voice was quivering as she relayed the feeling of being stuck in a career she hated. She also had a commute from Milford to Stamford that due to Connecticut’s I-95 quagmire was both grueling and unpredictable. I have sympathy for all my career counseling clients. I also know that gratitude can shift mental states.“Do […]
Career Counseling: The Ignition Key Needed For Career Change
Andy, a mid-level manager at a New Haven bio-medical company, called a month after our meeting. “I had been thinking of career change for 7 years. After our meeting, I finally am committed and changing seems like it will be surprisingly easy. Thank you.” Andy discovered what many of my career counseling clients do: starting […]
Career Change: YOU Have To Create The Process
I knew Kyle since he was freshman at The Williams School in New London. My first company, The Learning Consultants, has a program called Student Mastery that trains students to master their job as students. He worked with either me or my teammates through high school as he went through SATs/AP classes and the college […]
Taking a Career Risk: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward.”
Steve Jobs made the sage remark. I think of ” connecting the dots going forward” whenever a career counseling client faces uncertainty. I know that, at my best, I embrace this philosophy and view life as an adventure. At my worst, I am in control mode and feel anxious when I don’t know how things […]
Career Happiness: Is Your Work An Extension of Who You Are?
Careers have a way of shaping our identity. Quite often, this is not good. One of my friends works in a financial entity in Fairfield, Connecticut. I’ve seen him change over the years. He’s now a “financial risk guy.” That’s ok if it was extension of his core being. But it is not. He was […]
Is the illusion of security keeping you trapped at your job?
The movie Foxcatcher for which Steve Carrell takes a dramatic turn and received an Oscar nomination is based on the true story of John DuPont. If you are not familiar with the movie, you likely have heard the name DuPont and associate it correctly with one of the oldest, wealthiest families in America. I just watched The […]
Will 2016 be the year you finally change careers?
doNovember… hard to believe that another year is almost complete and that New Year’s resolutions such as changing jobs and careers will be on many people’s wish list. Those in Connecticut may be particularly hard hit as General Electric ponders fleeing Fairfield County. I sadly witnessed the toll Pfizer’s exodus had on New London County. […]
How Career Risks Can Pay Off In Unexpected Ways
Years ago, a friend of mine ran for Congress in Connecticut. He was very young and a heavy underdog. Certainly, more than a few people thought he was excessively bold. To run, he left his relatively high paying job and spent his savings. He was not from a rich family so this was real money. […]
What’s the worst that can happen if you take a career risk?
Kelly had been working in Fortune 500 company in Fairfield County for the last ten years. During that time, she saw most all of her friends let go due to budget cuts, restructuring, reorganization and other corporate shenanigans that have ended thoughts of indefinite employment into the future. Kelly also didn’t like her work, her […]