Jun
29
I travel the country writing and blogging about twenty-somethings living with cancer, many of whom are facing astronomical debt. But, it does not take an illness as catastrophic as breast or thyroid cancer to rack up serious medical bills. Even healthy Gen Y’ers have ginormous amounts of medical debt from routine care. Consider these statistics:
* Out of every age group in the United States, 18-34 year olds have the most medical debt.
* More than 35% of all young adults have problems with medical bills including getting calls from collection agencies, paying off medical debt, or having to seriously alter their life to accommodate for medical expenses.
While researching and writing my book Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20’s and 30’s, I collected myriad tips to help young adults – both healthy and ill – manage their healthcare and finances. Here are five…
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May
26
I should be writing about my recent trip to Cancun, and my safe return without the swine flu. Or how I need to update this blog more often.
But instead, I’m writing about this stupid person who hacked my Twitter account and started following hundreds of spammers who started sending me hundreds of direct messages with hundreds of stupid links that I’m afraid to click. So I can’t tell you where those links go.
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Apr
28
If you haven’t heard yet, I launched my new website called the Resourceful Marketer on Sunday night. I wish this were a happy post to tell you how excited I am. I mean, I am excited, sort of. But I’m also very tired and very annoyed, because I did not want to start another blog when this one is finally seeing some success.
So here is the convoluted version of why I started my new blog, in the form of mistakes I made when starting this one:
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Apr
24
I am good at giving advice. This is not to say I’m good at giving good advice. Honestly, I’m just good at giving advice I like.
Jamie Varon recently wrote a post about reading bad advice in the blogosphere that inspired me to elaborate on my thoughts about advice-giving.
The hard thing about getting advice is, as humans, we have a tendency to ignore and discredit advice we don’t like, while heavily weighing advice we do like. The dangers of this approach are that we still don’t know what to do and end up just doing what we want, which may not always be the best decision.
Here’s a checklist I go through whenever I need to disseminate what is good advice and what is BS.
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Apr
23
This question comes from @andydrish:
“I’d like to hear what it’s like to build a community around shows like gossip girls…Howd you get into that niche?”
Andy is referring to my other website, Media Lookbook, which is an affiliate marketing site for the fashion seen on Gossip Girl.
I’ll be honest: the story behind this website is maybe not that exciting…
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Apr
22
The reality for the Class of 2009 is if you don’t have a job lined up yet, it will be very difficult to get one before graduation. I spoke to my sister-in-law who was Class of 2008 over Easter and she said that most of her friends were still having trouble getting jobs a year later, especially if they didn’t have very specific career degrees, like a business degree or a software engineering degree. This is probably even more true for current graduating seniors.
There is not much you can do to change your degree at this point. So here’s my advice:
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Apr
20
There are a lot of questions I have regarding the merit of Gen Y blogging. Is Gen Y a valuable niche for bloggers? Does “Gen Y blogger” fit me? Does “Gen Y blogger” fit my target audience?
And here’s what I’ve noticed: there are plenty of great Gen Y bloggers, but the best Gen Y bloggers don’t fit the Gen Y stereotypes. And the Gen Y bloggers who do fit the Gen Y stereotypes are obnoxious. To everyone, not just me.
So here are some things you can do to become a less annoying Gen Y blogger:
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