And no, it isn’t money… I am a professional fundraiser – there, I said it. Specifically, I write the letters you get once a year from your alma mater – the ones you get before you pay off your student loans, before you have launched a high paying career, when you are still living in a cramped apartment and taking night classes for grad school. But I am also a young alumnae, so I know why those letters may seem annoying, but let me tell you what I’ve learned…
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Hi! I'm Monica O'Brien and I created this website in January 2008 as a place for twentysomething professionals who wanted to be a part of a personal and professional development community. Now, I've joined forces with the Brazen Careerist team to meet this goal on a larger scale. I continue to maintain this blog as a place to talk about what I'm learning as I tackle marriage, a start-up, and graduate school.

