One about me

Professionally, I’ve been working with career counselling for almost two years now. Personally, I can say that career counselling has always been a part of my life. I’ve had several job experiences, have attended courses in different majors, have had a couple of turning points and have always dealt with my career shifts by myself. I have learned how to search and how to explore, how to give a meaning to the time I have spent in one or another place, and found out what is important to me and what my goals were (and are!).

After dealing with all those issues and having counselled dozens of teenagers and young adults with career doubts, I can say that I’ve become both passionate and challenged by what I do. I can say that it makes all the sense in my life and makes me fit into this world. At this point, I’m always eager to improve my skills to be a better counsellor and satisfy my clients’ needs, because they are my major satisfaction. My personal satisfaction.

Back(stage)

I’m back for quite a while now, finishing my career counselling sessions for this year. I’ve been having some positive surprises and feedback, but what is still to be done is to diminish the distance between school and work, that is, to provide opportunities for the students to acquire some self-efficacy beliefs that will be useful when choosing a career. Many of them will only start doing things their own when they enter university/college. Besides, there seems to be a lack of reflexion on the world of work, like what the sense of work is, why people work, how necessary it is for them to work etc. It may seem odd, but some teenagers have no idea where the money comes from. They don’t know how easy/difficult it can be to make money and they know nothing about the cost of living.