If you don’t like your career, you have to plan on changing your career. I don’t mean you should quit your job today. But, you should start your plan. Now. Some common objections against having a sense of urgency: “I don’t know what I want to do.” As I explain to our career counseling clients, part […]
Read MoreFrom 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. I enjoyed my public service jobs and did not like my private sector jobs. With work that I didn’t like, […]
Read MoreJiro Dreams of Sushi is worth watching if you want to see a master at his craft. I had no interest in watching the movie. Strange title and I don’t eat sushi. But, I saw the rave reviews as I was scrolling through Netflix documentaries and soon found myself mesmerized. Jiro is a master sushi chef. […]
Read MoreI recently met with three career counseling clients in their late forties-early fifties. In each case, the client had come in to shift careers. Each had spent 20-25 years in a career. While each had variations regarding their career unhappiness, each had suffered for the last several years in some combination of boredom-anxiety-low grade depression […]
Read More“I can’t leave my job to something so uncertain.” so spoke a career counseling client who worked at a large corporation. “Alyssa” had just finished telling me how much she hated her job. She didn’t like the people. Several of her co-workers were the adult equivalent of mean girls and her boss was the Queen […]
Read MoreI had one of those horribly vivid dreams a few months ago. I was in law school and wondering where I would work after I graduated. I couldn’t find anything that interested me and was also having anxiety over whether I wanted to practice law at all. As I was struggled to awake from my […]
Read MoreThere is a new reason to find work enjoyable. You will likely work well past 65. Most everyone over 40 has been culturally programmed to lock in age 65 as the retirement end zone. There are certainly statutory requirements related to social security and tax deferred retirement accounts, that make 65 a number of real […]
Read More“I have no idea what I want to do. But everyone else does.” So I hear from college students and twenty somethings who are worried that they are behind on the career track. They express feelings of failing compared to their friends and peers who have successful careers. Some want to latch onto the first […]
Read MoreSo I am asked quite often. Usually, the question is asked in relation to whether quitting, without any other job, makes sense. I respond with a series of questions: 1. Is your job literally (that’s literally, not figuratively) damaging your mental health? This is a big hurdle. I don’t mean that you feel anxious. I […]
Read MoreAre you at a career crossroads? Many of our career counseling clients are stuck at a job and/or in a career path far too long. They feel the need to make a change but fear giving up their “security” or their “investment” in their current career. I never tell clients to give up security without […]
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