I’m Part of the Brand New Brazen Careerist Network!

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!…Successful entrepreneurs decide to start a company and then think [...]

Get Your Parents to Stop Labeling You An Underachiever

Are you known as the family underachiever? Do you break all the rules that people around you expect you to follow?
Maybe you’re 26 and you still haven’t completed your degree. Or you still work at a local coffee shop, when your parents would really prefer that you become an investment banker. Perhaps you refuse to [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

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 [...]

Five Bloggers That Make Me Think!

Adam, from Seacoast NRG, kindly nominated me for a Thinking Blogger Award (!), and I’ve been meaning to thank him for some time. It is a great honor to know that readers value the effort I put into Thrilling Heroics.

I’ll continue to provide you with important headlines and interesting thoughts and tips about the latest [...]