An Interview with Duff McDuffee of Falling Fruit TV

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!Today I have the opportunity to share a fascinating interview [...]

What Generation Y Wants at Work

Now along come the 76 million members of Generation Y. For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn’t really exist. They just want to spend their time in meaningful and useful ways, no matter where they are.
—Penelope Trunk, in an article for TIME Magazine, “What Gen Y Really Wants”

Book Review: Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

Anyone who’s crazy about business books knows Tom Peters, the management guru who foresees an Inescapable White Collar Revolution that will transform business in the next ten years! (And if you don’t, you should read him!)
Well, Tom is getting to be quite the old-timer. (Sorry, Tom.)
Penelope Trunk is his engaging, competent, young replacement. ‘Nuff [...]

Interview: Julie Jansen, Career Coach and Motivational Speaker

IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com has hosted the fourth interview in my Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series. Julie Jansen is a motivational speaker, career coach, and author. She has a great deal of experience helping everyone from CEOs to managers to entrepreneurs find gratifying work and she has some great thoughts on gender and business. Here are [...]

Interview: Alexandra Levit, Author of They Don’t Teach Corporate In College

Part three in Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com: Alexandra Levit is the author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, and a regular corporate and university speaker on Gen-Y employees. She is the founder and president of Inspiration@Work career consultancy and also serves as [...]

Top 10 Events and Films that Created Change in 2006

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s [...]