Successful Careers That Don’t Relate to Your College Degree

Everyone, meet Lamar Hull – great guy, great basketball player, and great writer. Check out StuffGradsLike’s newest guest post about finding a career that’s different than your college degree.

Remember the old days of sitting in class and wondering, “When am I ever going to need this?”

Your parents and teachers probably reassured you that you would in fact need to learn calculus in order to survive the cold, harsh outside world. As it turns out, they may have been wrong. You might need basic math to go grocery shopping, but you probably don’t need your advanced economics or Olde English translation skills to buy the milk and eggs.

As a recent college graduate or someone who’s been pounding the corporate pavement for a few years now, you might be wondering why you even earned your degree at all. You know lots of people with no degrees who are earning way more in their jobs. How can you get in on the action?

Here are some tips for finding better employment without relying on that slip of fancy paper.  [Read more...]

4 Reasons Why You’re Scared of Getting a “Real” Job

business-handshake-600x400What is a “real” job?

Do you measure it by how much it pays? Hours a week? Whether or not you need to wear a tie?

Put simply, a “real” job is one in which you have certain responsibilities and duties that you absolutely need to accomplish at work (and you’ll probably be let go if you don’t).

A lot of people are scared of a job with “real” responsibilities; “What if I can’t cut it?” they worry. “What if I hate working behind a desk? What if it doesn’t pay enough? What if I get fired?

Valid concerns, but they shouldn’t stop you from trying to land a real job.

What are you afraid of? [Read more...]

The 10 Best Ideas for Summer Friday Nights

There are plenty of great ideas for summer that are just overflowing with awesome, but these are my personal 10. Check em out. You’re bound to find all kinds of awesome.

1. Casino Night

I love casino night. I just do.

Casinos always have buffets, shows, concerts, cheap drinks, and plenty of ways to spend your hard-earned money.

However, I have one solid rule about casino nights: don’t spend more than what you said you would. 

This means that you need to set aside a little cash (I usually put around $50 aside, tops), and when you run out, that’s it. Kind of like the envelope system, but for casinos. Grab some friends, get some food, and play some roulette. (Pro tip: always bet on black - just trust me) [Read more...]

5 Things You Need to Give Up for 30 Days

Have you ever given something up for 30 days?

My first month of college, I decided to give up drinking soda for a month. “It’s just for 30 days,” I reassured myself – I was a soda baron, and I was having 3 cans a day, easy. A month later, I had made it – I very became good friends with lemonade and juice (and that’s also when my obsession with Sobe began: looking back, the sugar was just as bad).

But I did it! And it was awesome. I was saving money, my teeth weren’t rotting, and I was sticking to something I had committed to. Sweeeet.

Now it’s your turn. You ready? If you’ve been thinking about changing up something in your life for the better, there’s no better place to start than giving up any one (or more) of these 5 things that are eating up wayyy too much of your time. [Read more...]

5 Things To Not Do With Your Ex

First, let’s get some things straight:

I’ve had a lot of “ex’s” in my day, and I am very skeptical of getting back with your ex. Under any circumstance. To me, it didn’t work for a reason, so I need to be really convinced it’ll work now. Yes, there are exceptions, of course…but I’m still a skeptic.

Now, I speak as someone who is encouraging you to have a healthy, committed, long-term relationship – I’m not about shallow flings or one-night stands. Here, I’m gonna give you nice people 5 things to not do with your ex; things that, if avoided, will ultimately lead you to have the best and most healthy emotional and physical relationship with yourself and your next partner from now on.

Good? Good. Let’s go.  [Read more...]

Wisdom for Graduates: How to Find a Job

graduate.ju.topCongratulations! You graduated!

I went to my girlfriend’s graduation last week, and it was as awesome as it was hot and crowded. Also, the muffins were overpriced. But that’s ok! I’m proud of her, and we’re all proud of you. *tears

So! The next step: finding a job. Duh. But look – don’t get sucked into the job forums online and realize you’ve applied to 75 jobs without a single call back. You know you should do?

Definitely check out my guest post on the Intervarsity national blog and read about the very important and very effect power of informational interviews.

They’re like, the best thing ever.

 

5 Ways to Make People Instantly Like You

Disclaimer: getting people to like you isn’t as important as the world tells you it is! You’re awesome no matter what.

However, being a likable person is pretty nifty. Knowing how to interact positively with people – whether it’s with a friend-of-a-friend or your new boss – is very important. Good news is, it’s not even that hard.

Now, don’t go overboard with these! Again, making people like you isn’t that important. Everything in moderation.

1. Give good hugs

If your primary love language from the 5 Love Languages personality test is physical touch, this one’s super effective.  [Read more...]

5 Things to Never Do When You’re Bored at Work

iStock_bored workBeing bored at work sucks.

We all know what it feels like. It’s pretty lame. Seems like the only good thing about a boring job are great movies like Office Space.

Whether you’re in retail, customer service, a desk job, or wherever, we all find ways to pass the time. But as someone who can get very bored very easily, I’ve discovered firsthand that while there are some  decent ways to pass the time, there are other things you just need to not do when you’re bored at work.

1. Watch YouTube

This isn’t as big a problem for you non-desk workers, but for the rest of us, it’s a different story.

J.C. Penny just announced that they discovered their employees had watched 5 million different YouTube videos from the office in the month of January. There’s less than 5,000 employees there. You do the math. [Read more...]

3 Personality Tests You Need to Take This Afternoon

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” –Aristotle

Dude. If Aristotle said it, better pay attention!

So. How well do you know yourself? Tell me: are you introverted or extroverted? Are you confrontational, or is there no worse form of torture? Do you like a messy desk? What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? Why??

If you’re like me, you obsess about finding out every possible thing there is to know about yourself, because you know that knowing yourself is a tremendously-awesome tactic to realizing your full potential in relationships, careers, and life. But be warned – it’s a messy bidness getting deep and dirty in your inner soul.

So how do you start? Well, checking out of these 3 nifty personality tests might do the trick. Hang onto your butts, folks. Applied appropriately, these types of tests can be one of the biggest factors into living a life with your full potential, allowing you to perform in relationships, your career, and your life with near-perfect results.

1. The 5 Love Languages [Read more...]

What Would You Tell the 25 Year Old You?

Jeff Haden is a ghostwriter, speaker, and writer for Inc. Magazine. He’s basically what every writer wants to be.

He also wrote a little piece titled “What Would You Tell the 25 Year Old You?” His advice is awesome, and it’s even on my Twitter this morning. I only post awesome Tweets, so you know it’s awesome.

I read it this morning, and I knew I had to share it with you guys, being around the age group and whatnot.

Enjoy. [Read more...]

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