I’ve never been much for the “standard” way of doing things, because I know if I put my own style behind it it’ll be more memorable. So this post is a blend of a standard blog post and a parting or “keep in touch” letter to my colleagues, in which I out myself as a [...]
Cliques are everywhere, they are unavoidable. As we grow up we float from clique to clique and we change “lunch table groups;” perhaps we were even members of a couple of different cliques at once. Our friends shape our reality and influence us beyond belief.
Even as we get older peer pressure is still extremely powerful. [...]
When I graduated college I knew it all. I was ready to take on the world, and then I got knocked down quite a few pegs when it took me 5 months to find a job.
Since that time I have learned a great deal, and I admit to not knowing half as much as I [...]
Helping Generation Y bridge the gap between college and the real world is something that I am passionate about because I don’t feel that I had any idea what I was doing once I graduated. I felt alone, everyone was telling me to get a job, and to make matters more interesting, I got married [...]
“You need to dress nicer to work,” Mary turned and said to me one December morning as I began to put on what had become my “business casual” uniform of (not so) wrinkle free khaki pants and a faded Volcom Polo shirt left over from my college days. By no means was this dressing poorly, [...]
Note: I try my hardest to keep politics off of Young and Frugal, but this is an issue that I think transcends political beliefs. This is a real problem that needs to be dealt with soon and I’m trying to take a non-partisan approach to it.
Bernard Madoff is a name that you should know (unless [...]
It seems like there are too many young people worrying these days. As I checked Facebook on New Years I read way too much of the “Thank God 2008 is over!” or “2008 Sucked! Let’s hope for a better ‘09″ status updates. Quite frankly, 2008 was a pretty good year for me. Mary and I [...]
