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WSJ: Career advice from your significant other is worth what you pay for it
The WSJ has some specific advice on where to turn when you are in need of career counseling: pretty much anywhere other than your significant other. "It's career suicide," says one woman quoted in the WSJ column.
The betrothed are ofen selectively informed, sometimes overestimate victories, and can be clueless to the office culture. Delivered with the best of intentions and honey-sweetie coddling, their advice, reinforces loony behavior that a reality smack could have prevented.
They even have a word for it, "badviser."
So where do you turn for advice? Career counselors/coaches, life coaches, or other individual who is paid to tell you the truth, is objective, and is experienced in issues like the ones you are experiencing.
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Yes, but.
Certainly, if the only career counseling you get is from your spouse, that's a mistake.
But if your spouse is a woman, it is a plus. They have that intuition or sixth sense that men don't have. Plus being removed from the office scene can be an advantage.
Only depend on a spouse for advice? I would never depend on any one person's advice for something as critical as a career decision. But I certainly would weigh his or her thoughts.
Well said. The WSJ article
Well said. The WSJ article correctly notes that you want spousal buy-in on any major decision since their support will be critical for your success. That said, spouses can have a different (distorted) perspective and perhaps a different motivation (wanting to appear supportive) where a third-party with whom you do not live might be in a better position to provide a more realistic assessment of your career situation.
As for the "sixth sense", note that many career and life coaches are women so you would be in a position to have the best of both worlds!
Wesley Hein
Wesley [at] lifetwo [dot] com
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