NEWSFLASH: No one cares about your resume. What’s that you say? You’ve spent hours perfectly crafting every word in order to make yourself look fantastic on paper? You even read my advice on resume building? That’s very kind of you, but I repeat, no one cares, and here are 5 reasons why. Resumes are boring. No ... 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 »

“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, ... Read the rest »

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 ... 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 »

I was 19 and sitting at a table on the patio of a famous restaurant in Los Angeles with my girlfriend (now wife) and her loud family and friends.  We had killed 4 or 5 bottles of wine, and somehow the conversation drifted to us speaking loudly about third base and all aspects of it.  Needless to ... Read the rest »

It’s no wonder that many boomers and gen-xers think we are the worst generation.   We’ve had our helicopter parents swoop in and save us when we’ve gotten into rough situations, we’ve been told our whole lives that we should dream big and that we have the power to change the world (and we believe it!), ... Read the rest »