Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Timing is everything. And for Joe Moser the timing was bad. He graduated from the University of Iowa’s law school in 2011, one of the worst years to graduate from law school ever. He worked as a bartender in St. Louis, Missouri, while applying for jobs. It took about a year for him to land…
Is it better to do something you love, or learn to love whatever job you do? Trick question! It doesn’t even matter: More and more employers want you to exhibit glowing passion for your position, regardless of how you really feel. It’s not hard to understand why there’s a premium on positive energy. Enthusiasm is…
Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY RYAN J. LANE/GETTY If you give a dude a kale chip, he’s going to ask for some coffee to go with it. He’ll probably want to know if the beans are in season, and how recently they were roasted. Reading about the coffee’s origins on the back of the bag will remind…
By Bill Grady We prefer texting to phone calls and we expect integrated and seamless experiences with technology. We are the first generation to have grown up in the midst of a digital revolution, where information and answers are just a few clicks away. We are Millennials. There’s been a lot written about Millennials. This…
Mic.com, the news and opinion website aimed at millennials, has a very millennial problem: Its director of news, Jared Keller, appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the past several months. Keller was hired in April of last year as Mic’s director of programming. “Jared will…
Average wages stagnate after 35. (bigstockphoto) Ah, your 20s: A decade of self discovery, smartphone dating and shopping for IKEA coffee tables — right? A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sends a more sobering message to millennials: Your first 10 years in the labor market likely shape your lifetime earning…
Millennials are either impressively optimistic or blissfully ignorant. More than a quarter of them expect to become millionaires in their lifetimes—even as 46 percent of them still live at home with their parents. Those numbers are from Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll, which surveyed 1,000 Americans aged 18-34. (For full results and methodology, click here.) …
While attending my first tech conference as a journalist last year, I couldn’t help but snicker to myself as I watched the grey-haired CEO of a large software company dedicate a large portion of his two-hour keynote presentation to “the millennial in the workplace conundrum,” as 100,000 middle-aged attendees rapidly scribbled in their notepads, laptops,…
So, to state the obvious: Jon Chait is a jerk who somehow manages to be both condescending and wounded in his piece on political correctness. He gets the basic nature of language policing wrong, and his solutions are wrong, and he’s a centrist Democrat scold who is just as eager to shut people out of…
Nora Cox, 26, gathers eggs from the chicken coop in her backyard in Buffalo (Jordan G. Teicher / Gothamist) Last year, Bernice Radle and her boyfriend Jason Wilson paid $16,000 for a three bedroom 1,600 square foot, American Foursquare-style house on Buffalo’s West Side. After growing up in nearby Niagara Falls, attending Buffalo State College,…