If you want to escape to a place where you can fill your days with outdoor adventures and retire at night to urban comforts--with a healthy dose of Southern charm--consider booking a flight to Charlotte, N.C. After I recently spent a weekend there, here is what I can recommend:
Many Young Professionals don’t regularly cook, have never thrown a dinner party and might even be overwhelmed at the thought. If you had asked me five years ago to make dinner it would have consisted of spaghetti with a splash of Ragu. I didn’t know my way around a kitchen, and didn’t care. Then we bought a house with a large kitchen. Maybe it was years of pent up passion, maybe it was the fact that I actually had space to cook or maybe I just felt that I should be able to provide a nutritional meal for my family. Whatever the catalyst, I wanted to learn to cook.Read more
Some young professionals who are overwhelmed by the economic issues facing the nation are turning to the Tea Party to find a solution, said Tim Kraulidis, the state coordinator for the Illinois Tax Day Tea Party Movement.
“Young professionals are discouraged,” Kraulidis said. “And what are they going to do, write to their congressman?” Read more
If you're a young professional looking for a job, chances are you already know how important it is for you to have an online presence so recruiters can find you. So you probably have a Web site, Tweet regularly and update your blog. BrazenCareerist.com, a social networking site, allows you to organize the best of your online content in one place. Read more
MTV's Rock the Vote and HHS Secretary Sebelius took questions yesterday to help young adults navigate health care reform, and learn how to choose a health insurance plan that makes sense for their needs.
Cities and towns across the country sent in their pleas to Google last month, requesting to be one of the trial locations where the company will test its new ultra-high speed broadband network.
Many of those communities used their young professional population as a selling point. Read more
With IRA’s and 401(k)’s garnishing the most attention in the investment community, investors forget about the value offered from opening a good old-fashioned brokerage account. Most questions submitted by young professionals to the talking heads for leading money magazines and news channels deal with contributions to retirement accounts because that is what has been drilled into their psyche at an early age.Read more
Noticed a number of “For Rent” signs on your block recently?
If so, you wouldn’t be alone. Apartment vacancies have been at record-high levels in the past year and many apartments are empty because young renters have sought alternatives to renting on their own during the recession. Read more
The final pick of YPNation's "Young Professional of Color” series is Tina Wells, CEO of the New Jersey-based Buzz Marketing Group, the number one resource for all things involving youth marketing. Wells has more than a decade of expertise in youth trends, and an impressive portfolio of more than one hundred partnerships.
Why is the YPNation spotlight on Tina Wells?Read more
YPNation is rounding out Black History Month by spotlighting an outstanding "Young Professional of Color" each day this week. Today's pick is Leanna Archer, CEO of Leanna's Inc., a custom-made hair care and body products line. But she isn't your typical young professional--Archer is a 14-year-old, ninth-grade student from Long Island, N.Y.
Why is the YPNation spotlight on Leanna Archer? Read more