This is part of a recurring series called This Way Up, where I answer questions and give advice to readers and friends.
I received a facebook wall message today from a computer science major a few years younger than me. In it, he wrote…
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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.

