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Your Career and You: Vacation…Expanding Your Horizons
I’ve been on vacation for the past few weeks…which means I ate more than usual and had the time of my life…as usual. Vacation is a “serious” undertaking for Margaret (my wife) and me. For the past...
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Your Career and You: “Connections…They Bring Us Together”
A series of events this past weekend really brought home the meaning for me of “connections.” The first was…thanks to a blundering electrician from our town’s utilities department…a total loss of...
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Your Career and You: “Not A Single Regret”
I recently spent some “quality time” in the company of young men and women…Curry College current and former students…who are either beginning to craft their own pathways into the professional world or...
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Your Career and You: “Graduation…An Ending and a Beginning”
The countdown has begun to “commencement day” both at Curry College, where I teach full-time in the undergraduate Communication Department and oversee the Public Relations Concentration, and at Regis...
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Your Career and You: “Don’t Blame ‘Them’”
I’ve been here in Taipei for the past several weeks, decompressing, doing some serious introspection, and pretty much doing what I do every day anyway…reading local newspapers, watching the news on TV,...
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Your Career and You: “Learning…Patience”
As a (now) “professional” teacher doing my thing at Curry College introducing young undergraduate Communication majors and others to my own lifelong career choice/passion of Public Relations, I talk...
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Your Career and You: “Do Your Homework and Choose Carefully”
Events of the past few weeks here in the Boston area have reminded me of one important thing as you start out on your search for either your first adventure in your chosen profession or the next step...
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Your Career and You: “A Shoulder to Lean On”
A friend/former student stopped by my office at Curry College recently. He graduated last year, but he lives in the area now, so he stops in from time to time to say “hello” and to update me on what...
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Your Career and You: “Overload… ‘Hitting the Wall’”
This week, I finally did it, I’m pretty sure. One too many things on my plate, and I feel like I’m spinning in circles. > The good news is, I know things will sort themselves out… somehow. > The...
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Your Career and You: “Help, I Need Somebody…Help, Not Just Anybody!”
It’s that time of the year again…start of the new semester at Curry College…unfamiliar faces in my classrooms…alarm jolting me awake at 4:45 am after a restful couple of summer months of “sleeping in”...
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Your Career and You: “Believe in Yourself. You CAN Do It!”
Yep. It’s that time of the year again when it seems like I spend as much time talking my Curry College Communication or Business Management students off their respective/perceived ledges as I do in the...
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Your Career and You: “Time for Reflection”
I spend a lot of time advising Curry College students on the “next step” as they begin preparing for “life after college” and all the terrifying unknowns lurking in the corners. This role comes easily...
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Your Career and You: “Personal Recognition…It’s Good ‘PR’!”
It took me a long time to figure this out myself…If you don’t tell people who you are, they’re not going to know who you are.” I know this is a mind-blowingly obvious statement, but how many of you are...
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Your Career and You: “Passion for Your Profession”
Photo by Sheehan McCarthy A photo on Instagram taken of and posted by my friend/former Curry College student Samantha Valletta drove home for me the absolute need to love what you’re doing for a...
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Your Career and You: “Where Do I Go Next?”
One question I am asked most often is: “Where do I go next?” Most of the time it’s from young professionals who have just gotten a start in their career and are eager to move onward and upward. I get...
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