Embrace Your Pain
The following guest post was written by Nick at A Young Pro. Nick is a recent college graduate trying to find his way in the crazy corporate world. He is a happy husband, a proud father, and he blogs...
View ArticleA Millennial’s Take on Decision Making: Digressions of a College Senior
The following is a guest post from Stephanie, a Marketing Associate at Argopoint, a management consulting firm in Boston. Argopoint LLC was founded in 2005 with the goal of improving corporate legal...
View ArticleThis Site’s For You
Why an old beer commercial kept going through my head while I was creating this site, I’ll never know. But there it is: my first Working Self title is in homage to alcohol. Classy, eh? The thing is...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need a Destination Before You Begin
Did you ever dream of going on a crazy road trip, one that you plotted as you went along, stopping at roadside attractions as they caught your fancy, hunkering down in flea motels when you found...
View ArticleTop Five Secrets for Millennials
Yesterday the long-awaited book 101 Secrets for Your Twenties hit shelves, e-readers, and horrified old ladies’ hands across America. Written by my friend Paul Angone of All Groan Up, 101 Secrets is a...
View ArticleWork-Life Balance Doesn’t Exist
Stop searching for work-life balance. You won’t find it. It ranks right up there with such mythical concepts as having it all, the twenties as a carefree ball of laughs, and being able to lose masses...
View ArticleThe Who Am I These Days? Annual Tune-Up
Think back to the last time you tried to draw a straight line between two distant points, free hand. You’re happily drawing along, inch by inch, when you glance up and realize that – ugh! –your...
View ArticleTwitter Resumes & Making Passion Practical
What do you get when you mix Twitter resumes and passion? In my mind, something like this. (Yes, I am suffering from summer slap happiness) If there could be two less-related topics in one post, it...
View ArticleMillennial Perspectives: March Your Way to the Top
The following guest post is part of our Millennial Perspectives series. It was written by Lexi Kubrak, who blogs at The Nerdy Socialite. Lexi started her own company at 22, a challenge she took on...
View ArticleFive Myths About Having it All
A secret to fulfillment is setting goals that are lofty yet attainable. Which means “having it all” and its associated myths need to be ditched. Right quick. Myth #1: I can “have it all” – in sequence....
View ArticleHow to Prepare to NOT Have it All
It fascinates me that we’re totally comfortable with having to make choices in most aspects of our lives – we can’t live in two cities simultaneously, nor in two apartments, nor take two competing job...
View ArticleAre You Trying to Find Yourself or Construct Yourself?
I always hear the same thing from many of my twentysomething clients: “I just need to find myself.” I wrote that in my own journal repeatedly, as if my identity were some fact waiting “out there” to...
View ArticleHow to Make Money: Work Like a Millennial
This guest post about how to make money is part of our Millennial Perspectives series. Ryan genuinely wants feedback, so please give him a warm Working Self welcome by offering a lot of comment buzz!...
View Article5 Ways to Gain Well Being From Your Life Story
In the grand search for well being and happiness, our sense of identity plays a starring role. We grapple with three major questions: Who am I? How did I come to be? Where is my life going? The best...
View ArticleQuarter Life Crisis Q&A
Photo credit: timtom.ch If you want to see someone get crazy enthusiastic about the quarter life crisis – I mean, arms flailing, camera bouncing, cheeks reddening – then check out the interview Nicole...
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What Do I Want to Do? 5 Books That Offer Answers
I’m obsessed with books that offer help me ponder the question “What do I want to do?” The less prescriptive, the better – I want to sort things out for myself, TYVM, but it is helpful to hear what’s...
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3 Life Lessons from Einstein
While conducting research for my recent piece Are You Trying to Find Yourself or Construct Yourself?, I repeatedly stumbled upon life lessons from Einstein. He had fascinated me in my days as a physics...
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Adventures in the Twentysomething Job Search
The following guest post is part of our Millennial Perspectives series. Please give Olive a warm welcome by commenting and checking out her hilarious vlog. If you want to add your voice to the...
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How to Not Be Pathetic: Stop Talking, Start Doing
Last week in a rental house along the Maine coast, I had a run-in with full-on patheticness. I’m not saying this to be judgmental. I’m saying it to be honest. And let’s face it, we all could use a...
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Chasing Seagulls: The Beauty of Unattainable Goals
photo credit: Simonds On a recent foggy day, my two-year-old daughter whiled away tens of minutes chasing seagulls along a deserted expanse of beach. She ran and giggled and clapped and squealed as...
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