I wrote my last book before the pandemic. It focused upon how parents can help their twentysomething children with their careers.
It was a mission centered book. I want to help my fellow parents. I have three children (23, 20 and 17). I am both highly concerned about the world of work that they are facing and highly aware that my role as a parent will differ than my parent’s roles in relation to career help.
Most parents who graduated college in the 80s/90s had jobs aplenty waiting for them. The hardest part of the process was figuring out the match for a well-suited job. Many graduated with either a career building job in hand. Others were confident – and with good reason – that they would find something within 3-6 months and that something was a career building job.
The emphasis on career building is for good reason. Not only is it the case that many do not have a job in hand, at all, upon graduation, but that many who have jobs or will get jobs in the next 3-6 months will have work that is not what most of us would define as a career building job.
I always clarify that all work – assuming it is not immoral – is honorable. I do not mean to denigrate jobs in retail or restaurants or customer service. But parents who spent a fortune sending their children to college and college students who spent four years in college did not do so to get work that they could have had without spending such money or time.
Career Counseling Connecticut is designed to ensure that your money and their time was not wasted.