As a young professional, there are so many job options out there. There are things for people to do with their hands. The jobs that allow you to become creative. And there are even jobs that are dangerous and can even threaten your life. Yet, when you are young, many ignored careers go by the wayside because they aren’t what you always imagined. According to thebalancecareers.com, some of the…
Building your brand means growing consumers dedicated to the success of your company; people who have a vested interest in your products and services. These are your evangelists, your biggest fans, your mavens. If you want people to shout from the rooftops about your company you’ll have to start forming community. Learn how to develop community growth into your business. Look at Harley riders, Mac geeks and the…
As a young professional, you often find yourself at crossroads. You come across too many tough career decisions, and it becomes challenging to arrive at a conclusion that has the most potential to bring you long-term benefits. Let’s face it. Every decision a young professional makes have a significant impact on his future. It determines how you will spend the next few years of your life. You can’t…
The Meme The meme I want to discuss and relate to entrepreneurship is “we all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo.” This was from the kids television show, Jimmy Neutron. Now, you may be asking how does this relate to entrepreneurship? We will get there. The Mistakes *This is the first post in series about ‘Entrepreneur lessons and mistakes’. Aside from being a person who has…
Building a brand is all about getting the word out. It doesn’t matter if you have the most fabulous product or service if nobody knows about it. If you want more people to hear about your company you need to start telling you story as often as possible. Make your story compelling enough and people might just tell their friends. Start with a Problem Great companies solve a…
It’s all self inflicted. Trust me I know. After forcing startup idea, after startup idea, following every trend on Techcrunch, attending every douchey networking event, and living in a city where just trying to cross the street makes you think about how many different ways you could kill someone, I had enough. It’s really unsettling how many people we call idiots or assholes just because we are behind the wheel…
When it comes to us 20-somethings, the general consensus is that we suck. That seems to be how the older generation views us in a nutshell. We get called lazy, told we feel over-entitled, and are constantly berated for our love of texting and Facebook. But the truth is, young professionals have an insane amount of skills to offer the workforce and world. While I’ll be the first…
I LOST MY WAY, and I’m not sure what to do to get back on the right path or even figure out what that path is. Recently I had an article come out about how I was living a fantasy; a life that I was imagining was mine but in reality wasn’t the life I was living. You can read that article here and see what all I…
There’s a price for ambition, and it’s been fodder for situation comedies for as long as any of us can remember, the young professional struggling to manage their work, social, and love lives. The young professional is immortal in the world of fiction because so many people can relate. The source of the problem would be simple enough to see if you were to graph the hours you…
Everything in our life has an impact on the way our life is, the friends we keep, the books we read, the posters we hang in our bedrooms, the kind of programs we watch, the people we follow every single one of these has an impact on the way our life turns out. Therefore, if we analyze the factors influencing our life, we can easily identify whether the…