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How You Spend Your 20s (And Early 30s) Will Define You

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Gramarcy Park Boy’s mother got him a book for Christmas entitled, SoulPancake and in my sinus-overhauled state once upon a time, I spent some time flipping through it where I came across a quote by Thomas Merton:

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”

that made me think, how you spend your 20s (and early 30s) will define you. [Read more...]

April 28, 2013

Don’t Forget To K.I.T.! … BFFs?

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By: Alexandra Campuzano, guest blogger

For the past few months I’ve been adjusting to life in a new city.

Anyone who has made a change from a city they consider home to a city that is virtually the opposite of home will understand the transition is tougher than anyone might have warned you about.

Prior to the big move, friends who had made similar transitions tossed bouquets of advice my way.

“Don’t forget to keep a weekly and monthly budget”, “Make sure your place has a night guard”, “Have a few months of rent and utilities in your savings account, you know, just in case”,”Don’t be afraid to live off Cup-o-noodle—it’s a perfectly decent meal.” [Read more...]

April 9, 2012

Drugs, Sex & Lies Revisited: Sweet Valley Re-Emerges 10-Years Later With CONFIDENTIAL

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Holy heck and some, the drama of the drug-infested, kidnapping-crazed, sex-obsessed world of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High series has returned!

Mark thy calendars because 1983 will return with a lusty, vengeful twist on March 29, 2011.

That is the date set for the release of a new book, Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later.

At the popularity of its fame, Sweet Valley High were the books for young girls across the globe as they chronicled the drama-filled lives of 16-year old twins Elizabeth (the good one) and Jessica Wakefield (the not-so-good one), the “perfect” California twins with eyes “exactly the colour of the Pacific Ocean.”

The new book, to be published in hardcover form, is not a teen book [Read more...]

October 21, 2010

Oldies Are Kurt Cobain & Mobile Phones To Tell Time, Is This Really GEN-Y 2.0?

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Each year, since 1998, the administrators at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a cheat sheet for their professors on the incoming freshman class and fall 2010 is no different as the class of 2014 (born in 1992) gets ready to attend university.

This cheat sheet is called the Mindset List and its purpose is to tell professors (and any other faculty who would care to read) about the “cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.”

Initiated in 1998 by Tom McBride and Ron Nief, the Mindset List offers a unique and more importantly, a culturally aware look into young America. Or does it?

With the release of the list analyzing the class of 2014, what’s different?

Or for that matter, what would surprise the non-millennial? [Read more...]

August 23, 2010

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} The HIRED! #GenY

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Image by Sasha H. Muradali. All Rights Reserved 2009.

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living and notes on The Alchemist later, this Gen-Y was hired. :)

If I could write a letter to me… I would tell me what I’m going to tell you …

If you’ve been following me on Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn — you’ve noticed something drastic and something just looks different… [Read more...]

March 1, 2010

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} How to Rent an Apartment in NYC #relocate #entryPR

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When I decide that relocating was what I wanted to do, I narrowed down my choices of cities to places where I had a support system aka family or very close friends in that area I could count on.

It’s easier that way.

When I say that “I could count on,” I mean people who take you apartment hunting, drive/walk around with you, pop open a map and show you where things are, people who will sit down with you and educate you about your new city as a local etc.

Apartment hunting equated a new bane of my being.

No lie.

Ugh.

KNOW where you want to live.

Also, don’t forget to [Read more...]

March 1, 2010

un-ADbitious Sex, Death and Nudity: “Be Stupid” by Diesel

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“For Successful Living” … NOT!

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More balls than brains, show me your tits and other deplorable smutty garbage encompasses the new “Be Stupid” campaign by Diesel.

I need to find a new catch phrase, instead of saying how the human race baffles me sometimes, because I’m beginning to see a pattern of idiotic sheep-like proportions around me. It’s sickening, degrading and a shameless display.

You’re kidding me right?

A trendy, relatively upper-market denim designer label, aimed at 16 to 25-year olds encouraging random sex, foolishness, arrogant dangerous behavior and drugs.

Well, now, isn’t that just dandy.

Diesel has taken what is fundamentally wrong with our society, the things our parents warn us about and things that ARE, in fact, harmful to young people and they have glorified them in an advertising campaign [Read more...]

February 8, 2010

A Picture of You: RIP Stephen Gately

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Aww, sadness.

I was a Boyzone fan when I was 10-years old and today, one of their members, Stephen Gately, passed away at the age of 33. That’s so young! My goodness.

Either way, for those you who don’t know Stephen was in an Irish pop singer who was a member of a gigantic British pop band called Boyzone. They were huge in the [Read more...]

October 10, 2009

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} Welcome to Generation Recession

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It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living. Last week, I asked if the recession was good for Gen-Y. This week I would like to talk about the repercussions.

Enlightened or traumatized? That is the question.

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I read an article in the New York Times called “Generation OMG” –

In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later.

Insane isn’t it? [Read more...]

October 1, 2009

{Confession of a PRetty Social Girl} Is the Recession Good for Gen-Y?

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It was the worst of times, it was the best of times in these cities to which we, Gen-Y, are living.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the Baby Boomers were described as flower children. They were radical, they wanted world peace, heck, they wanted to change the world. They were obsessed with the environment and hugged trees. This was a generation that felt they were entitled. Most of all, what was up with the fashions: bare bellies, shaggy hair and Twiggy eyes.

Whoa.

But wait a minute, does any of that sound familiar to you? Are the Boomers describing themselves when they describe us? I mean I don’t think my parents are so bad… I don’t know what they were like before I was born, but I think they turned out okay. So why can’t I?

On that note, while the recession is a hindering factor in the job hunt for so many Millennials (80 Million Strong anyone?), maybe it isn’t such a bad thing?

Someone told me that I sounded more than frustrated recently and that maybe my hurt for the current state of affairs ran deeper that just frustration. I cannot say that they were right, but I cannot say they were wrong either. I feel like we have choices, and we make them the best that we can given our circumstances.

Karma has a funny way of going full circle and life has an even funnier way of working out. Go on a outlandish philosophical thought with me for a minute here…

The recession is trying us: our pockets, our freedom, our livelihood, our day-to-day activities; you name it. [Read more...]

September 24, 2009

Gen-Y Coffee Runs: Work-in Maid or Work-in Graduate?

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Sometimes I read things that really make me question the working world; especially, as someone entering it. These stories are scary and feel like they are out of a bad version of the Devil Wears Prada.

Yesterday, I read something on Australia’s Smart Company by Aunty B, a business wiz woman who takes questions from disgruntled, confused and often clueless people about the corporate agenda.

But yesterday’s question, not only surprised me, but I’ll admit I was quite disgusted by it as [Read more...]

September 22, 2009

{Rules of PR no. 23} It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It

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My dad has been telling me since I was a little girl, “it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”

Funny, we don’t think about things like that when our blood is boiling and we’re so salty that a singular, open flesh wound will bring on the burn.

Last week Thursday, September 17, Ben Garrett, a PRSA member posted an article on the PRSA blog, ComPRehension, Status Update: Millennial Staffers Can Update Your Social Media Plans where he, in a nutshell, said that social media is tool for “testing things out” and made it seem as if Gen-Y staffers a) weren’t very bright and b) trust-worthy.

With statements like:

“A good starting point is to task new professionals with building up senior staffers’ profiles and networks on the organization’s social networking accounts.”

“Senior professionals who (ahem) remember mimeographs and Betamax are probably less savvy in the social media space. Tapping on these new professionals may seem like a gamble. You don’t want them speaking to clients, let alone producing messaging.”

… I was [Read more...]

September 21, 2009

{Confessions of a PRetty Social Girl} I’m in Business Week!

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A major thank you has to go out Mandy Oaklander, who wrote Grads’ Backup Plans, who featured me in Business Week.

As a “Desk Jockey,” the article is a witty, first-hand step into my head and what’s it’s like to be a Gen-Y on a job hunt:-

That’s right… Plan C is [Read more...]

September 4, 2009

Gen-Y, America’s Dumbest Generation?

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Illustration by Francisco Caceres for TIME Magazine

Someone has been sipping the kool-aide and the Wallstreet Journal has lost their noodles.

No, I get it, I got the “nonverbal” in a so “verbal” “cue” that apparently, my generation is the dumbest on the planet. Not to mention, that some people, who take advice from the academics of 1959 (“when the world was a simpler place” – oh, the irony), think we are lacking a serious amount of socialization.

The generation that ushered in and invented social media, a combination [Read more...]

September 2, 2009

Is MTV forgetful of Gen-X & clueless of Gen-Y?

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If video killed the radio star, then MTV killed the video with reality television and mindless fluff.

Their lease will be up in about two months and guess what folks? MTV isn’t renewing their top-shelf spot atop the streets in New York’s Times Square. The windows, that view, the chaos – it’s all finished. Done. Gone.

*shocker*

In a recent interview with John Norris, one of the most memorable MTV veejays, he seemed to think that TRL was “lame” and that the show was overrun by teeny boppers and new wave grunge artists who made crap music post-Nirvana. That, together with, the demise of the music video and the rise of reality television has killed off [Read more...]

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