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Full Name: Amberjade Mwekali Age: 24 Location: Dharamsala, India Hometown: Charleston, SC Job: Secretariat Assistant for the International Tibet Network Q: Why did you decide to move to India? A: I’ve always been motivated by ethical/existential questions: How do people frame suffering in their understanding of the world? How do we make decisions when we know our actions will effect others? I studied philosophy and religion from an academic perspective throughout college. The immediacy of India, the juxtaposition of beauty and death, its simultaneous generosity and lack made […]
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Mystics speak about love in ancient scriptures. Poets write of it. Love is the focus of all religions. You and I tell stories of love, but what is love? I believe love is an action, a state of being, and in its purest essence, a returning home to our natural state. Self love is the foundation of all other loves. To truly love another, you must first learn to love yourself for all your other loves will reflect and grow […]
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I am a scientist. When I want to know about something, I do research. As a researcher I know that the world is full of subtle nuances that can’t be described in 140 characters or less. Nothing on this planet is black or white, and because of this fact, taking a position on earth-shattering issues is hard on us and hard for our leaders. You have to figure out all the angles of a situation to make an informed decision, and […]
Categories: Ask An Elder • Tags: baby boomers, be you be sure, beyoubesure.com, millennials, news, NPR, PBS, research, science, twitter
Full Name: Kirby Nicole Cernosek Age: 22 Location: Astoria, Queens, New York, NY Home Town: Kingsville, TX Job(s): Model, Sales Associate, Philanthropist, Personal Shopper, and if all else fails, Local Drug Dealer, and/or Stripper (kidding) Q: How are plus size models viewed in the fashion industry? A: When I was maybe 12 or 13, I remember watching MTV and seeing plus size model Mia Tyler walk a runway. She is not skinny, and she is beautiful. Many people call plus sized models a joke – that […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: beyoubesure.com, dreams, fashion, generation y, information, Inspiration, Kirby cernosek, mia tyler, millennials, New York City, plus sized models, website
“The eastern world, it’s exploding/ Violence flaring, bullets loading/ You’re old enough to kill, but not for voting/ You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re toting/ And even the Jordan River has bodies floating/ But you tell me over and over again, my friend/ Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction” – P.F. Sloan, 1965 I’m the type of person who has actually cried with the covers over my head on a Saturday night, […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: activism, baby boomers, barry mcguire, beyoubesure.com, capitalism, counterculture, culture, eve of destruction, global warming, Gypsy Boots, hippies, Inspiration, millennials, news, opinions, politics
Age: 31 Ethnicity: Armenian (100 percent baby!!!) Birth Place: Washington, D.C. Lives In: Gaithersburg, MD Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, Minor in Studio Art from the University of Maryland Main Source of Income: Founder and Owner of Extend Yoga (New, Small Business = Eating Ramen Noodles) Debt: New Small Business – Who Knows?! DEBT > ME Insurance: I’m happy to have it, but I didn’t always. Passions: Yoga, Helping People, Being Creative, Food, Friends, Fun Favorite Pandora Station: At the […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: arlet koseian, beyoubesure.com, Blog, business, drake, extend yoga, gaithersburg, gays, global warming, ipad, ke$ha, millennials, pollution, retire, small business owner, washington d.c., webzine, yoga
Two years out of college, and here I sit in some snow-covered house, down some country road in some snow-covered country holler. When I first moved here from the hustling, bustling southern city by the ocean known as Charleston, SC, a fair amount of people told me the winter season in the high country slows down to a chilly drip and sometimes your pipes freeze and there is nothing. They said the first isolating experience would be trying. The climbing partners […]
Categories: Millennial Memoirs • Tags: beyoubesure.com, creative writing, ezine, fayetteville, friendship, millennials, spencer v martel, winter, young adults
Name: Rachel Cohen* Age: 25 Ethnicity: Jewish American/Caucasian Birth Place: Washington, D.C. Lives In: New York, NY Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, Minors in Business and Psychology from The Pennsylvannia State University Main Source of Income: Advertising/Digital Media Sales (175K annually) “I left my first job at a giant ad agency after four months because I saw my future there, and it wasn’t what I wanted. I wasn’t even sure what I wanted, but I knew that wasn’t it. I made the jump to the start-up […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: advertising sales, advice, beyoubesure.com, ezine, finding my center, fucking up, health insurance, interviews, millennials, New York City, online news, penn state university, young adults
Dear Rog, Have you ever had the feeling you just want to get married and get married … RIGHT NOW?!!! There’s an ex-girlfriend of mine I never got over. We haven’t been together in years, but always remained great friends. She’s the best person I know. This weekend, we rekindled our love affair, and I told her in bed she was the one – that I want babies, a mortgage, the whole sha-bang bang with her. And guess what she […]
Categories: Ask An Elder • Tags: advice, beyoubesure, beyoubesure.com, Blog, creative nonfiction, divorce, eloping, infidelity, las vegas, marriage
Age: 25 Ethnicity: Taiwanese Birth Place: Taiwan, Republic of China Lives In: Charlotte, NC Education: Emory University, Bachelors of Business Administration, Finance & Accounting “Ultimately, I wanted a career that allows me to take care of loved ones while affording a desirable lifestyle. Out of school, I wanted a job that would surround me with smart, motivated people to keep me sharp and motivated.” Main Source of Income: Investment Banking (100K – 250K annually) “I think the misconception most people […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: beyoubesure, Blog, boiler room, bone thugs, business, emory university, family, industry, information, Inspiration, investment banking, investment bankng, millennials, salary, stock broker, Taiwan
Dear Elisa, I think I’m having what people call a quarter-life crisis. I have a job, but it’s not the job of my dreams. I’m making money, but am barely self-sufficient. I’m dating around, but haven’t come close to finding the quote unquote the one. All I can think about is when I’m gonna get married and if I’m gonna have babies. These sensations feel almost hormonal, like a surge of progesterone has erupted in my body, and all I […]
Categories: Ask An Elder • Tags: 26, advice, anxiety, authenticity, babies, be you be sure, bruce lee, calvin and hobbes, carl sagan, eckart tolle, elisa blynn, ezine, identity crisis, life. purpose, love, marriage, millennials, quarter life crisis, quarterlife crisis, self-awareness, self-love, society, spirituality, the plan, website, world
Gerrymandering. It’s happening, right now, but do members of our generation even know what gerrymandering is? “It’s a forbidden sexual act involving a fire-based Pokemon,” said one Millennial. Kidding, he was kidding. “Yeah, it’s redistricting to get more votes in your area.” Another person surveyed defined gerrymandering as the “redrawing of district lines in certain districts to guarantee winning of said party.” “I hear the Republicans are partaking in it…dishonest cocksuckers,” answered another. “It’s a person who sells Jerrys,” “not particularly,” and “nope, […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: Congress, conservative, democrats, ezine, gerrymandering, Henry Marsh, inauguration, Martin Luther King Day, millennials, minorities, senate, Virginia, voter-ID
Age: 25 Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee Lives in: New York, NY Education: B.A. in Marketing, The Pennsylvania State University Main source of income: Executive Assistant to the CEO of a $5 billion fashion company (The pay is, well, high) Debt: $10,000 (Student Loans) Political Orientation: None How gay are you? (on a scale from 1-10): 2 Favorite Pandora Station: The Shins Do you have health insurance?: Yes – provided by my employer Greatest Accomplishment: Moving to New York City and landing a job I’m proud of “I […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: blogs, CEO, dancing, ezine, fashion, fitness, health insurance, healthy living, job, marketing, millennials, New York City, organization, purpose, the Pennsylvania state university, the shins
They kicked you out of college like a tramp with degree in hand. Yeah, yeah. A tramp in a tux, or perhaps a white, strapless dress, depending on who your parents are, maybe from Saks. It felt grand to feast with the fam in convivial excess dedicated to the greatest achievement thus far in your life span. But what about the crash, the collision experienced when you realized your 16-year melange of public and/or private school education most likely failed to teach you the […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: academia, adviser, Atticus Finch, blogs, career, Chicago Manual of style, college, copy write, corinthians, curriculum, Darwinian, education, fiction, god, graduate school, graduation, henig, income inequality, InDesign, jazz, liberal arts, love, market, millennials, peptides, personal trainer, politics of industry, psychology, twentysomethings, University of Miami
I work for the non-profit Global Brigades (GB). Global Brigades is an entirely student led organization that offers nine health and development programs in Honduras, Panama, Ghana, and Nicaragua. We implement health, economic, and educational initiatives in under resourced regions. I work with the economic program, specifically in the field of micro finance. The overall idea of micro finance is to give loans to poor populations so they can invest that money to pull themselves out of poverty. The GB model here in […]
Categories: Millennial Memoirs • Tags: Art for Humanity, babies, caja rural, compulsion, economics, education, English, global brigades, honduras, internship, loans, marriage, micro finance, money, NGO, non profit, shares, Tegucigalpa
To Whom It May Concern: is a fine business letter opening. It is at least automatically recommended by Microsoft Word, whose eminent ancestor was the Word Perfect, & I vaguely remember having read that the lord said the Word, & that Word™ was good. It is at least unarguably the standard. Thus I adjoin to you, Editor, a story. I ran through a Pilot fine tip pen’s worth of ink in the writing of this story. A Pilot pen is the only […]
Categories: Millennial Memoirs • Tags: american spirit, brands, cover letter. query. Johnny Walker, fiction, fine tip pen, gamble, image, impoverished writer, ink, intelligentsia, literary, microsoft word, modern, nom de plume, pilot, pin up, saucy tale, shakes, stained teeth, to whom it may concern, whore name, wrinkles
Age: 25 Birth Place: Glendale, AZ Lives in: Humboldt County, CA Education: High school, One Year of Massage Therapy Vocational School Sources of Income: Separation pay from the military ($700) Raft guiding (Daily Income $30-$60) Trimming weed ($10,000 in four months) “I was broke at the end of the rafting season. I lived in a tent and couldn’t document my rent. I’m too transient to qualify for EBT. I needed to pay back my loans so […]
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Is infidelity sometimes just a fart, a natural oopsie, or is it instead a breakup worthy offense? Who’s less deserving of respect – women or men – for being salacious? Morals have loosened. Now how do we decide who to allow between our legs? And perhaps, most importantly, how do we treat the ones we do? No topic is more confusing for a young adult than our debate on sex. Outlooks on the act are as polarized as the people who campaign for widespread […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: asian, balance, bing, Blog, cognitive dissonance, dating, deception, education, gay, grindr, hetero, infidelity, Liz Kulze, love, marriage, masturbation, millennials, monogamy, orgies, pleasure, porn, pregnancy, sex, sex toys, Slate, STDs, The Atlantic, women
Name: Ben Gordon Age: 24 Location: Washington, D.C. Hometown: Bethesda, MD Job(s): Integrated Marketing Manager for Word Wizards & Electronic Musician Q: What did you experience when you started looking for a job post-college? A: I faced the same challenges as everyone who graduated in 2010. There were lots of talented people and very few jobs. The developing renewable energy and sustainability movement is the most important historical contribution of our generation, and I wanted a job in the green […]
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With applications due soon, Kojo Nnamdi took on the topic of college rankings. His show focused largely on their corruption. (Listen to it here.) The U.S. News & World Report is understood to be the list to find out where a school stands in the hierarchy of academia. But according to the Kojo Show, these inflated and subjective statistics don’t consider the most pertinent information to prospective students. This list, which states Harvard (surprise!) as the #1 college in America, tells you one big thing about […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: academia, college, corruption, debt, default, harvard, hierarchy, income, kojo naamdi, loans, practical concerns, profit, rankings, students, tuition, US World News Report
According an article in USA Today, possessing a “Be you. Be Sure.” mentality can help you profit in this globalized world. When a person exudes confidence – whether they are a cashier at a Tex-Mex casual dining hub or a salesman leasing you an automotive – the experience you have with them tends to be enjoyable. You leave the interaction thinking, “Hey. That person has it goin’ on.” It’s as if their attitude supersedes the details of the situation. In truth, that […]
Categories: Articles • Tags: beyoubesure, Blog, creative nonfiction, DIY, economy, finance, generation y, quotes, shambles, teflon mind, tex mex, twenty somethings, usa today
Matthew Maclaren moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2010 to live his dream of starting a New Wave influenced collaborative band. Fashions, which stars Maclaren, John Hudak, and Lepaux, is the outcome of this aspiration. In early summer, Maclaren and Lepaux showed me previews of what would become Fashions’ first three singles. Maclaren paused the tracks every few seconds to ask, “What do you think of this note, right there?” He neurotically twirled the top of his hair. He picked apart […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: actors, Alternative, brooklyn, creatives people, dancers, echo & the bunnymen, Electronic New Wave Band, Fashions, goths, hippies, hipster, hipsters, Indie, Instagram, John Hudak, Lepaux, Matthew Maclaren, Morrissey, musicians, PBR, punks, radiohead, Ray-Ban glasses, social group, spiky hair, stereotypes, Talking Heads, the cure, The psychedelic Furs, The Smiths, urban outfitters, vinyl, williamsburg
Spend a few days with Megan Spencer King, and you will most likely walk away from the experience with sore muscles and full stomach. Unlike most exercise teachers, King will never preach to eat a meager meal. She respects the diversity of body types, and she herself eats what she wants. King feasts hard, and then moves harder. Her feel good ~ look good principle stems from self-respect and the development of stamina from the inside out. She won my […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: alternative path, beyoubesure, Blog, book proposal, DIY, generation y, Humor, Inspiration, intentional community, interviews, Life, Megan Spencer King, Millenials, Omega, spirituality, unconventional, young professionals
Gaia eats off his art. He makes his full living as an artist. He’s 24 and a street painter. He sports a Jehri curl. A full body plaster cast of his ex-girlfriend hangs out in the bathroom of his massive, warehouse-style Baltimore city apartment. And, for a person who spends nearly 12 hours a day meticulously carving away at a piece of linoleum, Gaia appears incredibly well adjusted. Intelligent. His career relies on his anonymity. How many of us can […]
Categories: Original Interviews • Tags: beyoubesure, Blog, book proposal, creativity, DIY, gaia, generation y, graffiti, Humor, Inspiration, Millenials, People, plight, quotes, Travel, twenty somethings, urban art, young professionals