While job searching, I've felt strongly that I've pigeonholed myself somewhere that will be pretty hard to get out of. Which made me come to the realization that the first five years of your career are extremely important, and what you learn in those five years will shape the rest of your career. I didn't…
Continue reading ➞ Why The First 5 Years Of Your Career Really Matter
I once read that 82% of people meet their future spouse before they even turn 16. I tried doing my research on this one to find out where it came from and everything was unconfirmed. This is basically a made up statistic. Yet, it resonated with me and sticks with me to this day -…
Continue reading ➞ You Could Have Met Your Future Spouse Before You Even Turned 16
If you eliminated all the people in your life asking you questions, pressuring you, and telling you what to do - where would you be? At one point in your life, you're going to have to fake it until you make it. That point in your life might just be now, in your 20's, when…
Continue reading ➞ I Don’t Know What I’m Doing And It’s Okay
I honestly can't stand all of the articles I read that are like "You're in your 20's! Quit your job and open up an ice cream shack in the Bahamas!" or "Don't worry about getting a job - backpack through Europe and find yourself!" Come on, I live with my parents and barely saved any…
Republished from 4/5/15 Everywhere we turn, there are interesting people. Walk into class, stumble into the bar, open up twitter, and scroll through Instagram. You can find someone you have something in common with in every nook of your life. So how do you choose and how do you settle? I don't think our generation…
Continue reading ➞ Falling In Love With Everyone and Everything
Republished from 4/3/15 I came into college almost two years deep into a relationship that I thought was going to be the rest of my life. I came to find, as most young people do, that forever just isn’t as long as I thought it was going to be. I readjusted and came to realize…
It can be really really hard to decide when your time is up at a job. I have only worked at two different companies after graduating college, so my experience is limited. But at my first job, I was there 6 months and knew there was no real growth potential there because I was their…
Class skips are kind of like PTO Remember when they told you that you could only skip class three times before you failed out? Well you only get a certain amount of paid time off until you get fired! Lack of sleep In college, you lacked sleep because of all night partying an the occasional paper…
Continue reading ➞ 7 Unexpected Ways College Prepared Me For The Real World
I haven't spoken to these people in like a week...I hope I still work for them. They said be in at 9 right? I think so, let me check my email 100 times before I leave. Shoot I'm an hour early... I have no idea what I'm doing. Okay, I kind of know what I'm…
For a very small part of this summer, I thought graduating was the best thing that happened to me. I was very wrong. College, without a doubt, was the best four years of my life. I couldn't have asked for anything more from the school I chose. I left with a degree that I felt…
Continue reading ➞ How Postgrads Feel When Everyone Goes Back To School
