Thoughts of a Gen-Y Millennial in a Social Media World
Editor’s note: this post comes to us from Lindsey over at The Professional Intern Being part of the first generation to grow up surrounded entirely by social media is an interesting position for me to occupy. It’s especially interesting given the fact that my brothers and sisters are much older than I am. They arrived [...]
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I have too many gadgets in my life. The idea of Information Overload isn’t new and it is a topic I’ve written about before. However instead of thinking about all the websites and social networks in our lives, I took a look at something a bit more physical: how many devices I have that can [...]
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When I attended the 20SB Summit last month I heard great keynotes from two amazing people. I finally met the beautiful and talented Jenny Blake who was nice enough to include me in her book. Not only was her personal story of leaving Google to start a business inspiring, but she left me with some [...]
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My mother asked me the other day how I felt about adulthood; I responded with a heartfelt, “It sucks.” I want to state that I am grateful for the things adulthood brings, freedom, experience, and fun. It is what comes along with those things that can make it suck, royally. The constant worry of money, [...]
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Earlier this month I was humblebragging about few media appearances past and upcoming, and I mentioned a possible hit on CNN. My friends over at Brazen Careerist asked me to help them out with a CNN story on Gen-Y Careers back in June. They were going to stage a Network Roulette session with some local [...]
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Last week I picked up something that most Millennials wouldn’t even think about touching. A newspaper. I was about to fly back to Washington, DC from Des Moines and my hotel left a USA Today outside my door. I picked it up, thinking I could read it during my least favorite part of a flight: the take-off. [...]
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(Photo Erin McCann) I’m generally not a fan of the term “Quarterlife crisis.” I would traditionally dismiss such a notion as “that’s just growing up, deal with it.” However, I think there are significant milestones as we reach adulthood where we come to understand just what it means to be on our own and making our [...]
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Do you ever wonder what your eight-year-old self or even your fifteen-year-old self would think of you now? I read an article last fall about this idea, and I thought it was an interesting concept to think about. Are you in a place you always hoped to be? Would your younger self, full of dreams [...]
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