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The interns are coming, the interns are coming!

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//Photo Courtesy: stylecaster.com// Lock up your office doors and prepare your LinkedIn profile views to spike. It’s summer internship season and that can only mean one thing: Groups of highly caffeinated, Tory Burch flat wearing, eager young minds flooding corporate America for six to ten weeks of life changing “real world” work experience. Let me paint the picture for you: During the day, they’ll show …

3 Ways to (actually) be busy at work

//Photo Courtesy: Levo League// Ok darlings, pop-quiz time. Rules are easy. Read over the following scenarios…if any of them cause you to make “teeth emoji” facial expression, make a mental note: When your roommate asks you what’s going on at work, you, at the risk of sounding uninteresting, say something like, “Oh God, work is just so busy,” without really being able to articulate why. You’re in a status meeting listening …

How to start your passion project, like yesterday

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//Photo Taken By Christina Slaton// I love being a 20-something, we’re all kinds of crazy! But seriously, something I’ve come to truly appreciate about my generation is our aspirations for a “multi-dimensional” career path. If you’re not sure what I mean, then think about how many people you know who do nothing outside of their 9-5 gig? Not too many, huh? Lately it seems like everyone is a “freelancer” …

When the company you used to love, won’t let you go

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//Photo Courtesy: winniedayblog.wordpress.com// I have a story to share, about love and letting go. This past year I watched a close friend end a three year relationship with the man she was convinced she was going to marry. She was convinced, well, because he told her that’s what he wanted. She had planned their future together, pinned the wedding dress she wanted, and came up with …

Teach me how to #hustle

Teach Me How To Hustle

//Photo Taken By Christina Slaton// As some of you know, last week Job Offers & Bad Boyfriends was named “Best #Hustle Inspo Blog” in the online women’s magazine, The Indie Chicks, Annual Badass Blog Awards. I’m sure many of you reading this voted for me (or thought about voting for me – and hey I’ll take it!) so consider this post my official THANK YOU! You all …

My best gals reveal what they would have told themselves at graduation

Gals on Graduation

Ah, it’s that time of year again. The time where our social news feeds are consumed with pictures of caps and gowns and well wishes to recent graduates. I can’t help but get a little nostalgic, thinking about how exciting graduation was…the world was my oyster and everything was new. Then I remember the terrifying – constant need to throw-up – feeling that followed post-grad euphoria, …