I have a passion for entrepreneurship. There is something grand about the spirit of bucking the curve, going against the norm and taking your employment into your own hands.
To go along with my passion, I have a scatterbrain. I get a great idea and I jump in head first, only to realize I’m diving in [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I am doing a series for recent grads called Getting a Job. I want to cover things that are imperative to know going forward after graduation. Chances are you didn’t learn these things in school, and/or your career development center at school sucked.
Last week I wrote a resume crash course called “Getting a Job: The Resume”, and [...]
Hi, my name is Daniel, and I… lost track of my finances.
I write (what is for the most part) a personal finance blog, so you’d think that I would track every penney, but I don’t. We budget to pay ourselves first (savings/retirement), pay all of our bills, and then everything else is give and take. One month we might [...]
