Marty Nemko

I have a client who’s an engineer and feels he’s just going through the motions, afraid  th...

It was his second year of teaching kindergarten, his first in a new school. He remembered last year’s first day: Twenty 5-year-olds, most...

I'm now writing one or two articles a week for Time.com's Ideas section. Here is my first contribution. The title is more une...

Sometimes a dream job or career doesn't live to expectations. It may even turn out to be a nightmare.  My PsychologyToday.com articl...

6/9/14 Update: Here's another one: My article, Becoming a Better Listener has 6,400 Facebook Likes. And the total page views for my ...

My PsychologyToday.com article today is; Do What You Love? Risky .  There may be a more likely path to contentment.

Days of Our Work Lives Part I: David's Saga Episode 11 Data Analyst as Hero In the previous episode , while recovering fro...

If career counselors had a motto, it would be "Follow your passion." Alas, truth is, in choosing a career, if you do what you lo...

It's been a busy few days. On top of my usual full docket of career counseling clients, writing my weekly AOL article and weekly USNews...

In preparation for my University of California, Berkeley Extension Public Lecture this Wednesday, I wrote a draft of what I plan to say. ...

This is the fifth in a series of five posts, each of which distills one of  the presentations I made at the Commonwealth Club this month ....

A caller to my KGO show last night said something like, "I'm a trainer for a cable company and I like it fine. It's stable, it ...

A Carnegie Mellon professor, dying of cancer, gave this last lecture. Here's the essence of what mine would be: 1. Get good at something...