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Social Sports for Quarter Life New Yorkers
Remember the feeling of beaming a classmate square in the back? The feel of the textured rubber ball against your hand as you look around and pick your target or the feeling of finding that one person in the bar that you are too afraid to talk to? What if I could tell you that you can combine both and come out feeling great?
If so the New York City Social Sports Club is for you. The league began operations in 2004 and claim to have seen tens of thousands of players participate in its leagues. Continue Reading
College Graduates Struggle to Find Jobs
When I graduated from college in 2008 with a degree in Communication and Media Studies, I was lucky enough to already have a job at a major TV network. Many of my friends and classmates weren’t as lucky, and when I was laid off a year later – I felt their pain. For eight months after that, I worked part time at a restaurant as a hostess and applied for more jobs than I can count. Continue Reading
Dating/Relationships, Fun Life
Speed Dating Not Such a Bummer
Dating is difficult. In New York City dating can prove itself even more difficult.
So what is a young quarter lifer to do? Well, if you happen to be single and looking for the next mister or misses here are a few things you can do in the big city to spark or resuscitate your dating life.
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Living the Dream: A 25-year-old’s Journey to Success
Megan Lawson’s journalism career started in the second grade. With an early hunger to report news, the young girl in a small town in Arkansas created and ran her very own neighborhood newspaper.
“I’d go around to the neighbors and ask them things about what they were doing and stuff and then I’d go home, type it up, print it out and then go back around and sell it for a quarter,” said the 25-year-old who now lives and works in Manhattan.
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From Finance Career Track to Student of Psychology
As a 22-year-old recent college grad, James Lomax was on the career ladder to a bright career in finance. After an internship at a pension benefits firm during college at Pace University—where he majored in economics and finance—Lomax soon secured a job as a supply analyst for a major airline.
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New Tech Aids Young Job Seekers
As job hunters, we often find that sending out a slew of one-page resumes and carefully tailored cover letters frequently leaves us with little to show for it. But as technology shifts, job hunters are finding new ways to get dream jobs.
We’ve all used these fancy new tools: LinkedIn, Career Builder, Monster. But how many of us have had much success?
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