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What's the Speech You'd Give After You Died?

On PsychologyToday.com, I plan to create a post consisting of 100-200 word speeches that my readers would be unwilling to give if alive but might want to record for play after they died. It can be posted anonymously if you wish. I welcome your submitting me yours at mnemko@comcast.net 

A Grown-Up's Guide to Friendship

When we were kids, we made friends by acting and looking cool and by being nice but so nice that we seemed desperate.

As adults, many people use the same tactics. And they work, but as grown-ups, we’re capable of more. 

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers ideas for making and deepening platonic friendships and for surviving disagreements.

Moments of Moment

Adolph Hitler aspired to be an artist but was rejected by Vienna's Academy of Art, purportedly by a Jew.  If Hitler had been admitted, just perhaps the Holocaust might not have occurred.

Each of us have had moments that have changed our lives' path. Sometimes, those changes are not unidirectional.
 
I discuss in my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

Early Memories

Our brain is a filter. Generally, we remember what's important, for example, some memories that have survived the decades.

My clients have found that strong early memories have implications for what they might do today: careerwise and personally, plus psychological issues they may still have to deal with.

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer examples as well as suggestions for how you might unearth and then use your early memories to improve your life today.

Nine Under-the-Radar Psychology Careers

This is the third in a series of PsychologyToday.com posts on specific careers. The first was Popular Professions' Downsides . Next was Underrated Jobs .  

Today's offering focuses on under-the-radar niches in psychology.

Ten Underrated Jobs

A couple days ago, I described downsides of nine popular careers.  A commenter on that article asked if I might describe some underrated jobs' upsides. Okay.

An objection to many of the following jobs is that they pay poorly. But some people feel their lives are, net, better with a low-pay/low-status job that lets them do what they enjoy or to have lots of free time after work rather than a higher-pay/high-status career that requires after-work worry and after-work work.

The ten jobs I describe in my PsychologyToday.com article today aren't for everyone but, especially if you need a career win, a life win after some setbacks, these not-unduly-competitive jobs may be worth a look.

A Burned-Out Occupational Therapist Thinks About Quitting

A burned-out occupational therapist called into my radio program.  I offer the edited transcript of our exchange as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

In Search of Cracks

Especially when trying to solve a big problem, it's easy to miss a crack of opportunity. Perhaps the examples in my PsychologyToday.com article today will help you stay alert to them so you can widen or at least appreciate them.

Nine Professions' Downsides: Physician, clinical psychologist, manager, lawyer, teacher, social worker, accountant, career counselor, librarian

Most reviews of careers have a positive bias. That's largely because most of the reviewers are in those careers. Those unhappy with it have left before being asked to describe it in an interview.  Also, cognitive dissonance causes a positive bias: People have devoted years to the career, so it's hard to acknowledge that it has been a poor investment of time and money.

To provide a bit of counterbalance, in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer downsides of nine popular careers.

Finding Good Work: From stalled to jazzed.

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I posted edited versions of two very different exchanges between a caller and me on my KALW-FM (NPR-San Francisco) radio program today. Perhaps you might find something in them to help you find well-suited work.