Re-vamp

After careful consideration and some reading (literacy (w)rocks!), I've decided to do something new. There was an MSN link the other day to some top HR jobby-type blogs. I checked one or two out, and then ended up spending most of the day perusing various blogs, mostly links from my favorite the Punk Rock HR Blog. Being an opinionated individual myself, I had many...opinions...on various items on these blogs. I also decided my age group (and younger, really...I keep forgetting that I get older every year) is underrepresented in the business blogging world. I fall into the "Millennials" generation, though personally, I think due in large part to the fact that I was raised in a home with two overly-hard working parents with a very modest income and an older brother, I really see myself as a mish-mash of the GenX/Millennial generations. I constantly read about how narcissistic, lazy and "entitlement"-y the Millennials act. Now, putting aside the fact that I don't know of a younger generation yet that was not lambasted by older peeps for being immoral, being lazy, wearing too much eyeliner or listening to that gol-darned "rock music" too loud, I get quite offended by many people's opinions of Millennials. I'm sure some of it's true. (Though who is really to blame for such things? If "kids today" are entitlement-spoiled and believe themselves special because mom and dad constantly told them they were, can you really only blame the kids? No.) However, generalizing an entire generation is always kind of a douchebag thing to do, and I won't stand for it. So. I am a college educated twentysomething, intelligent, capable, goal-oriented, etc., etc., gal whose "professional" life looks somewhat like the career embodiment of a Jackson Pollack painting. Messy, splattered, and hard to interpret. (And if you are my friends and me, something you go look at knowing beforehand you'll probably just be making fun of it the entire time. Sorry Pollack fans.) I'm joining in the chorus. This is going to be my attempt to blog about a somewhat-normal young woman's attempts a figuring out this "career" thing in the modern world, and I'm hoping in the process that I can defend my age group a bit and give people some insight into how I/we look at careers, the job-world, and other such exciting topics. No one will read this at first. But who knows...maybe I'll have my own Carrie Bradshaw worthy book-party one day.