Anxiety from work? Career Counseling Connecticut can help

“I wake up on edge… every day.” Samantha said.  As she continued, I could hear the emotion in her voice.  She had called Career Counseling Connecticut after she “hit her limit.” Samantha had the proverbial “good job”. She works for a large corporation in Fairfield County, Connecticut.  But she said she’s been working really hard […]

“Quiet Quitting” should lead to active career changeCar

Those old enough to remember George Costanza from Seinfeld might recall his famous “look busy” face.  In an effort to show his boss that he was working hard, he mastered looking busy even though he wasn’t working at all.   There is nothing particularly new about “quiet quitting”.  It’s just that the term has gained […]

Career lessons from the pandemic

The tumult of the last few years has led to Career Counseling Connecticut working overtime on how to help our clients navigate their careers. Some lessons: Career and life happiness are intermingled The Great Resignation stemmed from a massive amount of workers realizing that their unhappiness in life was brought on – at least in […]

You can only pretend that you are happy at work for so long….

In 1995, I started my second job as federal prosecutor for the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) in Washington DC. My first job was as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia.  I went to court several days per week.  My job was meaningful (trust me, back in the day, those who someone managed to […]

September is here… as is the job you hate

My larger company is  The Learning Consultants Our work focuses on high school students.  Every September, sizable change “just happens”.  9th grade to 10th grade leads to an entirely different set of classes (different work with somewhat different co-workers) and teachers (different bosses). Add in variation in activities (JV to Varsity or chorus to one […]

Exploratory Work – the secret to finding career happinesss

Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame popularized a time management quadrant: Important-Urgent; Important Not-Urgent; Urgent-Not Important; Not Urgent-Not Important. While most will discover that not everything fits neatly into each box, there are distinct examples for each: Most of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients have done very minimal exploratory career work. Most […]

Post-Covid Career Building Summer

Summer!!! A natural time to unwind, particularly in the idyllic summer time. It’s also a great time to figure out your career. Here’s why: September has a different energy.  Back to school. Back to work.  If you are currently in a job you don’t like, you might feel drawn to relax in the summer more […]