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I hate my job! (Choosing Your Career)

January 23, 2012
I hate my job! (Choosing Your Career)

As a career coach and senior executive, I can’t tell you how often I hear people say “I hate my job.  I just don’t know what to do with my life.  I really hate my job.  What do you think I should do?” That is a very tough question that I can’t answer for you.  It is a completely personal choice based on a lot of factors.  I can also tell you that that question does not always come from high school seniors or college students either.  Many of my clients, men and women in the 40′s and 50′s still express the same concern. Their dilemma is very understandable since we really receive little or no actual guidance on this subject in our youth. High school guidance counselors are geared more to making sure you get into college if that is what you want to do.  Most people simply trip into their careers, or have their careers chosen for them by their parents. What are you passionate about? Choosing a job is not that hard. Anyone can do it. Just look around you and say “I want to be that when I grow up.” But, choosing a career that you

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More on emotions

January 15, 2012
More on emotions

As you may be able to tell from my postings, I am big on telling stories and big on controlling your emotions.   My reason for doing so is that I have seen countless examples where people have said or done things “in the moment” that they wish they could take back. In many cases, the outcome was career limiting, if not fatal. Boxing I was watching boxing on TV one Saturday with my Dad as a young teen.  That was a treat back then because it didn’t happen very often and there was no pay per view (or Don King!). The match was going along swimmingly for one boxer, when his opponent suddenly hauled off and hit him with a low blow.  It looked intentional and hurts me now just to recount it.  I honestly wince as I play back that cheap shot in my mind. After the affected boxer got his wind back, and his testicles descended back into their original anatomical position, the fight resumed. But something had changed. The boxer who’d been wronged no longer boxed.  He came out throwing these hay maker punches all the while leaving himself defenseless. The other boxer easily avoided the punches

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I need a new job!!!

January 10, 2012
I need a new job!!!

In recent weeks, several of my clients have asked my help in finding them a new job. They each have different reasons for wanting to change jobs. Some just want more money. A few are not comfortable with the financial health of their current employer. And, I have one entry level client and one recently “outplaced” client that just need help getting started. Finding a job is not necessarily that hard, but finding the right job does take a plan. There was a time in the recent past when people would just shotgun resumes or respond to every job ad they saw. That method does work, but it is a lot more painful in terms of time, and success. If you think about it, you need to hit the right company at the right time looking for your credentials. Odds seem a little against you. So, it is best to create a plan of attack, and to work your plan. The first rule of thumb that people need to know in the job search is that, as non-scientific it may be, you should expect to spend about one month per $10,000 of salary hunting for that new job. If you

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Can you judge a book by it’s cover?

January 6, 2012
Can you judge a book by it’s cover?

I’m sure you have heard that you should never judge a book by it’s cover.  That phrase means that what a person looks like does not necessarily reflect on the inner person.  Is that always true? 20/20 Vision Humans are primarily visual beings.  We judge most everything initially on what we see.  The sense we rely on most is vision.  We don’t smell people to identify each other as animals such as dogs do.  We don’t spray our territories to keep intruders away like lions do.  We don’t listen for clicks and whistles to identify friends and family much like the earth’s largest mammals the whales do.  No, we primarily use our sense of sight to get our first impressions. Well, if sight is so important to us, wouldn’t it be fair to say that what you see does often reflect the inner person because the person knows what image they are trying to present to you, right? Self Proclaimed Worlds Hottest Sports Reporter? For evidence I present Mexican sports reporter Ines Sainz.  Miss Sainz recently tweeted that she had been treated inappropriately at the NY football Jets training camp.  She was unhappy that some of the players made some

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