A Word With Marty: "WRITING"

There Are No Jobs: Now what?

A Too-Honest Counselor: A short-short story

A More Honest Commencement Address

Even at a 98.6 college (All you need to graduate is normal body temperature), the commencement speaker typically tells the students to dream big.

That’s always been disingenuous—Many of those graduates were lucky to get and hold a mundane job, for example, marketing coordinator, school teacher, or construction supervisor.

“Dream big” is even more disingenuous today. Solid, well-paying careers are ever rarer thanks to automation, offshoring, and ratcheted-up requirements: technical, interpersonal and general intelligence. Many if not most graduates of Southwestern State University at Mudville will, for lack of ability and/or drive, end up in a cycle of a few-month lackluster gig followed by a few months of desultory looking, followed by another lackluster gig.

What would an honest commencement speaker say to them? My PsychologyToday.com article today offers one shot at it:

32 Inconvenient Career Truths

We career counselors and coaches are too often guilty of puffing our clients, feeling it’s wiser or at least more comfortable to err on the side of optimism. No doubt, that feels good to both counselor and client...at least in the short-term.

But I offer as my PsychologyToday.com article today, based on my three decades, 5,400 clients, and 95+% client-satisfaction rate, what I believe to be inconvenient career truths for the average job seeker.

A Career Coach's Perspective on Choosing a Supreme Court Nominee, and Advising Donald Trump and Kanye West

In case a career coach's perspective might be valuable in picking a Supreme Court nominee and to Donald Trump and Kanye West, I offered my thoughts as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

P.S. The name that I withheld in the article is Sri Srinivasan

Unvarnished: Straight Talk on What Works in the Real World

I aggregate lots of my perhaps too blunt advice in my PsychologyToday.com article today.