Articles Index

How to Move Down the Career Ladder
Sometimes, moving down the career ladder, instead of up, can make sense. It could be by choice. I know more than a few people who have decided to opt out of a fast track career to do a job that's less stressful or a job that's more fun.

Career Options for Teachers
Career Options for Teachers

Summer Vacation Career Tips
Advice for using your summer vacation to assist with your career plans.

Work Life Balance: Tips and Techniques
Do you know the typical signs of work life balance gone amuck and how to restore balance in your life? Guest Author Thomas J. Denham, MEd shares information on how choose options and create balance between work and life.

I Don't Know What I Want, But This Ain't Doing It
Are you getting what you want out of life? Do you really know what you want? Are you caught up in the "busy"-ness of mere day to day living that you sometimes feel you are achieving empty victories? Guest Author Thomas J. Denham, MEd shares information on how to transition your career.

When Options for Dealing with Difficult People Don't Work
You have tried everything. You've attempted to talk to the person who has made your life difficult at work. You have spoken to your supervisor. Nothing has changed and the decision to leave has been made. What to do next? Here's how to plan a job change on your terms.

Changing Careers in Midstream
The Coho, also known as the silver salmon, can change direction so quickly that fisherman often think that the fish is off the hook and continuing on its migration to spawn in the river where it was born. People don't usually have the same capacity to change careers, or life, in midstream. It sometimes take more of an effort or even a push to get us moving in a new direction.

Make Better Choices In Your Career
Your career is made up of choices. You choose what you want to do, where you will do it, and what type of education will get you there. Some of your choices empower you and others hold you back. Either way, you have power over what you choose in your career.

Five Steps For Taking Your Career From Denial To Victory
Do you have a feeling that something is wrong in your career, yet you have not done anything about it? Do you feel like something is missing in your career, but you'd prefer not to think about it?

Are You Really Committed To Your Career Goals?
Are you working on your career goals or just going through the motions? Are you "in" one day and "out" the next? Are you waiting for your goals to inspire and motivate you, and then you will jump in completely?

How to Answer Your Call in Mid-Life
Guest author Craig Nathanson, The Vocational Coach™ and the author of the book, P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day by Bookcoach Press, shares his advice on how to manage a midlife career change and change vocations.