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 Counseling Connecticut: The Great Resignation is Great News for Mid-Career, Career Changers
65. If you are over 40, then you likely were cultured with the original programming that 65 is THE AGE OF RETIRMENT. Here’s some good news: 65 was created as a retirement age based on long outdated actuarial calculations. Governments thought that people would die before or not much after 65. You are going to […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: If you are “quiet quitting”…. you should change your career
I understand “quiet quitting.” I really do. Having been a law firm associate – literally in the last century 🙂 – I fully know the feeling of that real life is outside of work and that work is necessary to pay the bills but going above and beyond serves the employer and not you. I […]
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 […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Solve your career issues now or you might really be stuck later
“I’ve been kicking the can down the road for…. I don’t know… 20 years.” Bob, a fortysomething from New Haven, CT said. He knew his job and career path was a mismatch right out of college. But it was stable, he liked his peers, and his boss was nice. Several times in his twenties he […]