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 [...]
In college it seems like there is always ongoing tension between those studying Liberal Arts and those studying Business.
The business students look at the Liberal Arts majors and think “What in the Hell are they going to do when they graduate? How will they support themselves? Maybe they will just disappear to the shores of [...]
Today I did something that I haven’t done in over a year: I Googled my own name and the reality of my e-life slapped me across the back of the head pretty good. In the past the results have yielded a famous Australian blogger (who owns my name’s domain name), a magician, a wikipedia article [...]
He stares at me, mocking my every move, shaking his over-sized head every time I bang my desk in frustration, boredom, or even joy.
I think about how he sees every moment as an opportunity to continue his Machiavellian rise to power, as he tells me “You are the Treasurer of this company.”
This makes me smile [...]
