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I wanted to write a manifesto over the holidays to make the principles that underlie my writing and my life clearer to myself and others. I started making an outline and was going to tell you to take things one day at a time, to stop auditioning for other people’s lives and to start doing [...]

It’s been a great year here at Life After College. Better than great. SO GREAT that I was going to skip doing this round-up post because it feels self-indulgent, and I much prefer to give you thought-provoking new content. However, my blog turned three years old this month and without my blog, my life dream [...]

Just as babies born near Christmas forever have their birthdays lumped in to holiday celebrations, my blog’s two year anniversary happens to fall squarely into the annual “best-of blog” posts and year-end reflection round-ups. But such is life! It gives me a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Or should I use [...]

The time has come! After over 3.5 years on the Training & Development team for Online Sales & Operations at Google, I’m going to be switching teams in late September. I’ve been really looking forward to the day that I could finally share this news with you (I wanted to wait until everything was finalized [...]

To those who took the time to take my recent reader survey: let me start by saying you are all so smart and inspiring! I’m sure those of you who haven’t responded are just as brilliant. After reading your feedback and kind words, I am more motivated than ever to take Life After College to [...]

First: Thanks are in Order! Thank you to everyone who submitted a ballot for Ryan Stephens’ latest list of Top 10 Gen Y Blogs. Life After College moved up a spot this month to #5! You know me – I spent the day sending exclamation marks and emoticons out to the masses on Twitter to [...]