Helping Adult Children Navigate The Career World
“I am a parent for life.” “Yes, you are. I responded to a mom from Simsbury, Connecticut. “Steve has been drifting now for about 7 years. Three different jobs, a couple of side hustle businesses, some periods of unemployment. Nothing has stuck. He’s now doing some temp work for his uncle.” Steve’s mom continued that […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: The Illusion of Job Security Is Keeping You Trapped
About a decade ago, the movie Foxcatcher, for which Steve Carell takes a dramatic turn and received an Oscar nomination, is based on the true story of John DuPont. If you are unfamiliar with the movie, you likely have heard the name DuPont and associate it correctly with one of America’s oldest, wealthiest families. I […]
Career Advice From Animals
Science alert: When cows see a storm coming, they wait for the storm to reach them. They then run in the direction that the storm is going, thinking erroneously that they can outrun the storm. When buffalo see a storm coming, they charge directly into the storm and then continue in that direction as the […]
Navigating your career during a work revolution
Soon enough, I will be writing a new book. The book will focus on how parents can help their children navigate the high school to college (or not) to career world during the chaos of the new world of work. Actually, the new ever changing world of work. We are in the midst of a […]
Clarity and the Paradox of Choice
Elsa relayed her career confusion. I’ll get excited and then anxious. And then excited and confused. And then, excited but stuff. There are so many things I think I want to do. But then I find something about each career and either get anxious, or confused or stuck. In running Career Counseling Connecticut through the […]
HOW to change your career
“I know I don’t want to be doing this job for the rest of my life.” I hear that a great deal. “I just don’t know what else I would do.” That’s usually the next sentence. Just recently, I’ve realized that my main job is teaching others HOW to change their career. I had three […]
The Joy of Work
Outside of Career Counseling Connecticut, I often stay silent about my work world. Why? I’m with people my age who are moaning and groaning about their jobs. They are locked into the conventional work world of large organizations. They are immersed in office politicking, title striving, and budget worrying. They discuss the “fires” they put […]
Good work boosts your mood
I vividly remember clock watching during my summer jobs in high school and college. From short order cook at Roy Roger’s to heavy lifting on an assembly line to bellhop/doorman at a hotel, I had many jobs that were not particularly enjoyable. Half of my legal career was similar. In summary, I enjoyed my public […]
Love your career because you’ll work until 70 or 75 or more
65. This used to a magic retirement number. It was so embedded within our cultural dialogue that almost every retirement planning book written prior to 2008. 2008 became a watershed year in our economic history since the stock market crashed. But that’s not the main reason why 65 will be extended for most. Three other […]
Career Building v. Career Searching: The happiness difference
I have a recurrent dream. A stressful one. I am still in law school and searching for jobs. I couldn’t find anything that interested me. I am anxious over whether I wanted to practice law at all. As I was coming out of the nightmarish dream, some rational thoughts emerged… “I’m no longer an attorney. […]