Recently I read a blog post by a young woman who had been fired from her job. She went to lengths to complain about how she felt betrayed by the company, then somehow backtracked and explained how she understood why the company fired her…because she was a horrible employee. She didn’t say it in those ... Read the rest »

Last week I was interviewed by Erin Darling over at The Pop Fix, and I answered 12 questions based on the premise that their readers consist of mainly Gen-Y who are into the pop culture scene. Erin asked me some questions that were so good I had to refrain from posting full blog posts for ... Read the rest »

Going home to your parents house after moving out is always kind of eerie, especially when “your” room is still full of your stuff. I had that eerie experience earlier this week when went to my parents house and realized that the majority of things left in my room not only define me, they define my ... Read the rest »

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 ... Read the rest »

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 ... Read the rest »

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 ... Read the rest »

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 ... Read the rest »