Vasily Ingogly MA, MS, LPC, DCC
Career Development and Transitions Coach Expert
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My college major was English Literature and Creative
Writing, with minors in Mathematics, French and almost
another one in Biology. Yeah, you could say I had a hard
time figuring out what to do with my life ... and people
frequently told me I was a "perpetual student," which
didn't help my mood at all. I loved the sciences, and loved
literature as well, but the message I kept getting was,
"decide on one thing and stick to it."
I ended up in graduate school, studying environmental
science (my area of concentration was terrestrial ecology,
and my research project involved the population dynamics of
smalll mammals in the Virginia piedmont). I took a job as a
computer operator's assistant to get by while I worked on
my thesis. When I realized my life would be spent behind a
desk in Washington, D.C., writing environmental impact
statements, I decided to commit to a career in computer
science. I was spending most of my time working at the
computer lab anyway, and I had always enjoyed technology.
A few years later, I completed a Master's degree in
computer science. By that time I was already burning out on
my computer career, and believed it was a career I just
drifted into rather than choosing it because it reflected
who I truly am. I went for career counseling for the first
time in my life, and the work I did in counseling pointed
toward careers I hadn't even considered as a young man ...
or for that matter, as a man rapidly approaching middle
age.
I spent the next 24 years as a computer professional,
mostly doing management-level consulting on software
development processes and software quality assurance. Don't
get me wrong, it was a good career. Relatively late in life
(at least by society's standards), I decided to switch
careers and obtained a graduate degree in clinical
psychology, and have been counseling individuals, couples,
families and groups ever since. I see my work as a sacred
calling or vocation, rather than the way I simply make a
living. Work for me has always been about more than
bringing home a paycheck.
Coaching people through life transitions - particularly
career transitions - strongly appealed to me because I have
been through so many transitions myself, typically with no
one to act as a sounding board as I made life-shaping
decisions in the dark. How differently would the shape of
my life be, I wonder, if I had had access to a career coach
earlier in life? Would I have felt empowered to make
different (and perhaps better) decisions along life's path?
So I obtained life coach training at the Institute for Life
Coach Training. Which brings me to Métier; it's my way of
reaching out to others who are struggling with the
important decisions related to career and vocation to
successfully negotiate those decisions and find a
meaningful and joyful outcome. |
Vasily Ingogly Quick Facts
Main Areas: Career Coaching, Life Coaching
Career Focus: Coach, Speaker, Business Owner
Affiliation: Metier Career Coaching
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Vasily Ingogly
Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
Donald Hall
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they
want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in
life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if
you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson
The world is full of people who seem to have listened to
the wrong voice and are now engaged in life work in which
they find no pleasure or purpose and who run the risk of
suddenly realizing someday that they have spent the only
years that they are ever going to get in this world doing
something which could not matter less to themselves or to
anyone else.
Frederick Buechner
Getting Started With Vasily Ingogly
If you would like to learn more about the services I offer, you can visit the Metier website at the link given below; browse through the information there and the links I provide, and consider submitting a request for an introductory coaching session at no charge!
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