Career Counseling Connecticut: the post college job search
The pandemic took its toll on college students. Terrible time to be in college. But also a terrible time to think about building a career. Internships were remote. Or disappeared. Colleges are generally terrible at helping college students with their career planning were particularly terrible in the last couple of years. Why? Because the best […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Help for parents of recent college graduates
Rick, a twenty six year old from Glastonbury, CT, graduated UCONN in 2018. He did not have a job upon graduation. The reason: he didn’t really look for a job as a college senior. I have been running Career Counseling Connecticut since 2006. Back then, pretty much all college seniors looked for jobs. Now… […]
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 […]
College graduation and mental health: Career Counseling Connecticut can help.
The transition into the “real world” is challenging. Indeed, it’s an underrated challenge. The challenge is both practical and psychological. Career Counseling Connecticut has served our career seeking clients in the very practical endeavor of finding careers/jobs that make our clients happy and successful. Given my deep immersion in psychology/philosophy, it’s not surprising that […]
Denying Reality: Gen Z’s “I don’t dream of labor” will lead to eventual unhappiness
The mission of Career Counseling Connecticut is to help clients find work that makes them feel happy and successful. The pandemic has had some benefits, including the chance to reflect on work-life balance. Unfortunately, there has been an “anti-work” movement among some portion of Gen-Z. “I don’t dream of labor” is a catch phrase that […]
Meaning and purpose: the key to a happy career
Let me start my noting that I don’t mean that meaning and purpose must be something lofty like working in a hospice. Pretty much all helping professions be it health care, education, social services qualify. But so do various endeavors: building a business that serves others in some capacity or being part of a business […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Replace career seeking anxiety with career building
The pandemic has made me more comfortable opening up with our career counseling clients. A recent client said as she conveyed her dread of heading back to the office upon the pandemic ending: “I just feel anxious all the time, wondering what I am going to do for my career.” I remember that feeling. I […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: The Time is Now
I am retelling a pre-pandemic story. There is a well known restaurant in Madison, CT where “Lucy” is one of its hostesses. Three years ago, she set up a meeting for career counseling. When she came in, I recognized her and said “don’t you work at X restaurant?”. She smiled but it was one with […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Interacting With US Will Create Action
“Jerry” was miserable in his job and career path. But, he felt stuck. He was 32. Young, from my vantage point, but old, from his view, to switch careers. Having graduated from college mostly clueless about what he really wanted to do, he wound up working in a small business in Stamford, CT. After a […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Meeting With Us Is The First Step Towards Career Happiness
If you are unhappy in your job, then you likely spend a lot of time in your head talking to yourself about your unhappiness. That’s a challenge. As social beings, we need to connect with one another, particularly when going through a problem. If you are fortunate enough to have a real friend at […]