I just finished my last class of the semester, now all I have standing between me and my last year of college is four finals next week. Here are some links for your surfing pleasure:
- Why Generation Y is broke MSN Money
This is a subject near and dear to my heart. Personally, I don’t have a lot of student loan debt right now, and I don’t expect that I will have any problems managing it once I am out of school. My spending is pretty well under control - but for a lot of people in Generation Y, personal finance and money management was not something that we were taught growing up.“We’re in a generation that was kind of shielded from a lot of financial responsibilities,” says Wong. “Twenty years ago, when you were in college you didn’t have a credit card, and (now) all of a sudden we had to take on debt to go to college. Then we get out of college and we have to have that handbag and an iPod,” she says. “It is so easy to take on debt.”
- ‘No Yelpers’ Says One Local Cafe Screenwerk
Cool story about how an Oakland cafe attempted to fight Yelp reviewers after negative feedback impacted their business. A good example of the power of sites like Yelp.The staff said to me rhetorically, “If you’ve got a problem with something, you should tell us first rather than going online and posting.” … They were, the cafe staff argued, being “snarky” for entertainment reasons or to impress the Yelp community but not being respectful or mindful of the potential impact their reviews might have on a small businesses.
- Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you delicious blog
I have been using Firefox 3 for a while, and not having my del.icio.us toolbar has been painful, but they just released a beta of a Firefox 3-compatible version and it is good to have it back. - It’s Alright to be an Introvert Employee Evolution
Ryan has a cool article here talking about how our culture generally favors extraverts, but being introverted is still okay when you really stop and think about what it means to be an introvert. Over there at Brazen Careerist, they use the Myers Briggs test which is helpful in examining this part of your personality - take it and see what you get (I am an ENTJ).“Extraverts both get energy from and focus energy toward people and things outside of themselves….Introverts tune their radar to an internal frequency because they are more interested in applying their own perceptions and experience to a situation rather than looking outside of themselves for the answer.”
Have a great weekend!
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