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Why Career Counseling?

April 26, 2017career counseling

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Why Career Counseling?

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– The Attraction of this Occupation for Ph.D.s Question from Paula Foster Chambers: Many thanks for the speakers’ helpful responses to the questions that have been asked so far, but I’d like to ask a deeper one. Why career counseling? What would each of you say are the real major most meaningful payoffs for you in the career counseling profession? Obviously you’re not doing it for the money, the fame, or the prestige. Why do some PhDs (and non-PhDs, for that matter) stay happy in this field for literally decades at a stretch? I know it’s true, having met several “lifers” in my day, and I tell you, they are some of the happiest campers I know. Why is that??? Other career counselors (I know you are there!) please feel free to jump in with your own responses to any and all of the questions that have been asked this week, but especially this last one. Why do you love what you do? Richard Kurz: Why career counseling? Several reasons: 1. I get to work with students (and alums) on really impo