There From Here Has Moved!

Until I can get a re-direct working, please note that I have moved to my own domain at http://www.officialtherefromhere.com/blog

#GenYChat with Josip Petrusa

On Wednesday June 9, 2010 #GenYChat will have a guest moderator: Josip Petrusa!

To participate in the discussion, click this link. http://tweetchat.com/room/genychat

We will be discussing the GenY Catch 22: Getting experience without having experience and dealing with the consequences.

For transcripts from previous chats, please click here

RTOD: Domain Name Pain

I‘ve been going back and forth with myself for a little while now regarding the purchase of a domain name. I started this blog a year ago to give myself the opportunity to finally get serious about what I wanted to do with my life. I feel that I’ve done a consistent job with this but would love to do more. I want to get into podcasts, more marketing, and, especially, blog designing. Having a blog with a registered domain name would afford me those opportunities. I strive to grow and educate myself by learning the things I wasn’t able to learn in school.

What say you, readers? Do you own your own domain name? What made you make the decision? Any tips to share?

Gen Y: How Do You Handle Promotions?

The situation: You have experience at a certain level of authority within a company. You are being offered a promotion by a different company that is in the same industry but has different products.

The question: If you’ve never worked with the products, how do you convince yourself, and, thus, the company offering the promotion, that you are worthy of the promotion?

Please discuss answers in the comments!

Talking About My Generation Y

Generation Y gets talked about quite frequently. We’re lazy, unmotivated, listless, unproductive, blah blah blah. Frankly, I’m none of these things. I know many more GenY’ers who don’t fit this stereotype, either. Hiring managers, why are you consistently hiring the same type of GenY young person if business claim to despise having them in their offices? Business people, are there no outliers anywhere in any of your offices? I find that hard to believe.

Generation X had a song by The Who that rallied them together against the negative stereotypes being put on them. Generation Y needs a similar rallying cry. Anyone want to create it? Anyone? Bueller??