Motivate Your Son… to find a career
I wrote Motivate Your Son a decade ago. Despite my normal optimistic way of viewing the world, I made a grim prediction: about 30% of young men would not be financially independent twentysomethings. Much like a forecaster who predicts a massive hurricane is coming hopes he is wrong, I, too, would have been delighted to […]
Tis the season change careers. Gift the gift of career counseling
“This was the best gift I’ve ever received.” Lacey, an early twenty something from Fairfield, Connecticut noted. Lacey graduated UCONN in 2018. She was a psychology major. But she had no real interest in pursuing careers as a therapist. I like people. Psychology was interesting. She did not have a job when she graduated and […]
Career Path of Abundance
I have written 3 books. This one is my favorite. It is the most personal. It likely provides the most distinct discussion of Career Counseling Connecticut’s mission. I thought of it as I read this excellent article by David Vallance. David Vallance David is a former craft beer journalist turned writer and digital […]
Are we choosing not to settle for bad jobs? We should be grateful for that reality.
Career Counseling Connecticut works with career seekers who want to be both happy and successful. That mission stems from a deep sense of gratitude. Sometimes our clients use phrases like: “I can’t just quit because I need to eat.” Those who are reading this post are not going to literally starve. Historically, those who did […]
The Metaverse, BlockChain, CryptoCurrency…. Guiding you (and your children) to the New World of Work
There has never been a 25 year period in world history that has dealt with as much structural work change as 1997-2022. This is not hyperbolic. The Industrial Revolution is the only time frame that comes close and that lasted 75 years. The Internet Revolution – if that’s what “this” ends up being called – […]
Does your career match your moral values?
Have you read Bad Blood? Great book. It details the demise of a highly touted Silicon Valley company Theranos and the deception of Elizabeth Holmes who by many accounts is a highly functioning sociopath. Sociopaths often destroy those close to them. But Holmes was brilliant and captivating enough to potentially destroy the lives of […]
The Post-Labor Day Career Blues
When Career Counseling Connecticut opened, it was around the time of the Great Recession. Now we in what has been termed the Great Resignation. Back then…. a mere 12 years ago… many of our career counseling clients were eager to find a new job. Having been laid off from what they thought was secure employment, […]
Boys To Men: The Career Edition
I wrote Motivate Your Son in 2012. I described the challenges that I observed as a practicing educational consultant in Shoreline CT. I predicted three general career paths for the majority of young men. I led with optimism. Those that had what I termed “work character” – which has much overlap with what is commonly […]
Mental health and the post-pandemic career/job search
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 some part of my practice has also been led to clients noting unexpected benefits: “I’ve been in my head so long. […]
Do you know if you interview well?
Years ago, one of our first career counseling clients met with us. He had everything on paper. He attended Yale University. His grades were excellent. He majored in economics. He had plenty of interviews. This was during boom times on Wall Street. So, he expected to waltz into a high paying job. But, other than […]