How Boomers could ruin your career and what you can do about it

Most people think of Baby Boomers as the managers in today’s corporate world, but that leaves out a huge population of employees that aren’t managers – they’re contributors just like you. Some are at a senior level but either chose not to become a manager or never received the opportunity. Coming in as a Gen [...]

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Making the most of your early twenties

There is a short span of time where you are no longer a teenager and not yet have all the responsibilities of adulthood, marriage, and mortgages. This can be the best time of your life or it can be a waste. Before you plunge into “full” adulthood take my advice as someone who has passed [...]

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Stay tuned

I’m transitioning my original blog “My Gen Y Life” from blog.com to WordPress. Stay tuned for the final site. Until then, check out my posts here: http://melanielopez.blog.com/ Thanks!

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Getting the attention of Millennials means being connected

Millennials are a new breed of consumers who are well connected – to their families, friends, and online “communities”. They spend time with the people that matter to them, whether virtually, on the phone, or in person. These connections are influential to Millennials at work, home, and in the consumer world. TV is no longer [...]

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5 Gen Y Tips for going to a Work Conference

If you’re a young professional, you have likely been asked by your boss (or you asked them) to attend an industry conference to expand your knowledge and receive relevant training. I recently attended a week-long conference in New England and by the time you hit Hump Day your head starts to hurt. Instead of getting overwhelmed by all [...]

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Americans are fat, fake, and uncultured

This is the view that I perceived of Americans when traveling in Europe recently, and I can’t say it’s completely false. I wish all Americans had the chance to go abroad and see how other people lived and take a minute to look at themselves. Americans are fat We all know there is an obesity [...]

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Possibly the worst web experience ever

I love my day job. I review and comment on my company’s websites, looking for ways to make the sites more user-friendly and up to design standards. Call it a gift or a curse, but now I look critically at almost every website I encounter. I recently had possibly the worst web experience ever, so bad in [...]

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