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		<title>How Millennial Are You?</title>
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This crap has been going around the Internet for a while, but I thought I&#8217;d report on it. Pew Research has cooked up a little online quiz where users may determine for themselves how &#8220;Millennial&#8221; they are. That is, how much they have in common with us, the generation born after 1981. (nevermind that some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2010/02/26/how-millennial-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Episode 40: Tea and Sympathy</title>
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Scott is joined by Craig Ward and Lisa Edwards, English graphic designer/typographers in who are now living in New York. Together they eat ice cream, drink tea, complain about customer service, and discuss life as an expat on both sides of the Atlantic.
Sorry, this episode is unedited, and includes no theme music, bookmarks and, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2010/01/27/episode-40-tea-and-sympathy/</link>
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		<title>There is a Feeling&#8230;</title>
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There is a feeling of rage mixed with exhaustion mixed with disappointment that comes from realising your own job prospects are dim. It&#8217;s almost a state of mind, where you view yourself in the third person, weighing events with both rational and emotional views, yet not being able to govern yourself with either faculty.
What can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2010/01/07/there-is-a-feeling/</link>
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		<title>Job Prospects in the Recession</title>
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The very excellent BBC Business Daily podcast has tackled the sensitive subject of job-hunting during the recession. While clearly it sucks, there are some subtitles in play. According to the program, workers who are hired during a recession are often hired in lesser roles, for lesser pay, and then have a harder time throughout the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/12/21/job-prospects-in-the-recession/</link>
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		<title>twentysomething bloggers</title>
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Why am I only finding out about this now? There&#8217;s an entire website devoted to tracking bloggers in their twenties. I imagine the site lets us all be social, as we&#8217;re generally a talkative bunch. And by talkative, I mean horny.
20 Something Bloggers — the bloggers with the most to say »
I&#8217;m gonna go poke around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/12/18/twentysomething-bloggers/</link>
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		<title>Graduate Student Lives in a Van</title>
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Well, the headline kind of says it all. Today I uncovered the story of a Duke graduate student who, in an effort to save money and avoid debt, lived in his van while he attended classes.
If it weren&#8217;t an English major writing, I surely would not have read. Here&#8217;s a taste.
The idea of &#8220;thrift,&#8221; once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/12/08/graduate-student-lives-in-a-van/</link>
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		<title>The Multigenerational Workplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Thanksgiving yesterweek, we got to discussing the bizarreness of work. At the table were seated no fewer than three family members who are, you might say, less-than-gainfully employed. My laid-off aunt and uncle have both reinvented themselves recently, and I, of course, have been mucking through the freelance world for far too long.
But the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/12/07/the-multigenerational-workplace/</link>
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		<title>The Fight for Employment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that one day you&#8217;re working at a successful magazine, making $50,000 per year, and living the life in New York City. A twentysomething fantasy for many. But then suddenly you&#8217;re laid off. Now, with the market for journalism shrunk to a caricature of its former self, you&#8217;re forced to scrape by with freelance gigs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/10/15/the-fight-for-employment/</link>
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		<title>Oh Shit kits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the Walk of Shame, now there&#8217;s a convenient kit you can keep in your bag or under your desk to accommodate such a situation.


Clever, this, but it makes me think of the obvious point — if you&#8217;re prepared enough to have a Walk of Shame kit, chances are you&#8217;re not the type that ends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/10/08/oh-shit-kits/</link>
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		<title>Episode 039: The Awkwardness</title>
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Remarks on dating and growing up, in New York City. 
Scott and Rashan sit on a bench in Union Square and rap about meeting girls, dating, kissing (girls, not each other), moving in together, trying to get laid, and the inherent awkwardness throughout it all.
The BBC&#8217;s Audio Ecology Project: Save Our Sounds (via CBC Spark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/09/30/episode-039-the-awkwardness/</link>
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		<title>The Data in Online Dating</title>
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Many twentysomethings will try their hand at online dating. Whether an alternative to the bar scene, or the result of a super-busy schedule, most of us have at least filled out a profile for an online dating site. But the site OKCupid.com has enlightened the Internet community by highlighting, through data analysis, what terms and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/09/23/the-data-in-online-dating/</link>
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		<title>New Episode Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my friend Rashan and I sat down and recorded nearly an hour-long chat which will quickly turn into an episode of twentyhood. I&#8217;m hoping to sit down and edit the show today, and post it shortly thereafter, so stay tuned, stay subscribed, and pay the fuck attention. Get ready for some shenanigans.
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		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/09/14/new-episode-coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>In Puerto Rico. Contribute Your Thoughts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s post wasn&#8217;t entire a whisper thought of the season, it&#8217;s timed to my vacation to Puerto Rico. Those who know me will note the irony that I, who has been famously out-of-work for the better part of 3.5 years in running this blog, is taking time &#8220;off&#8221; from whatever it is I do.
I&#8217;m heading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/31/in-puerto-rico-contribute-your-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>The Paradoxes of Summer</title>
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It&#8217;s a fair assumption that as twentysomethings, we still remember our school days. We may still be friends with our school chums, we may still have our old school clothes, and chances are, we miss our summer holidays.
Obviously, summer is a good time to be outdoors. We love the sun, the heat, wearing shorts, running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/30/the-paradoxes-of-summer/</link>
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		<title>Ten Interview Tricks to Get the Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, we&#8217;ve heard this all before — tips like &#8220;be on time&#8221;, and &#8220;iron your clothes&#8221; are standard for any advice listing for the would-be job seeker. But today I&#8217;ve uncovered a list of slightly more candid and subliminal tips on how to get the job. Maybe a bit of social engineering is just the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/29/ten-interview-tricks-to-get-the-job/</link>
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		<title>My Degree</title>
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via Pictures for Sad Children »
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		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/27/my-degree/</link>
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		<title>Congress Offers Relief to Student Debtors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, and the millions of others who are burdened with many thousands of dollars of student debt, then here is a bit of good news: the US government will take action to make loan repayments proportional to earned income, and will forgive loans after 25 years of faithful repayments.
The terms are highlighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/06/congress-offers-relief-to-student-debtors/</link>
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		<title>Is Higher Education the Next Bubble to Burst?</title>
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It&#8217;s almost a taboo to speak of colleges and universities as businesses. The decisions they makes aren&#8217;t based on profits, they&#8217;re based on academics, right? Well, sort of. Higher education is a business, where the &#8220;products&#8221; are the graduates, and the effort is to sell those graduates to the world with the goal of getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/07/01/is-higher-education-the-next-bubble-to-burst/</link>
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		<title>On Being Busy</title>
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When it rains, it pours. The old cliché has nothing to do with weather, although this June finds that metaphor especially apt. Things are busy lately.
After many months, if not years, of suffering through the various gradients of employment, I find myself once again working a regular schedule. I hadn&#8217;t worked a 40-hour week between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/06/18/on-being-busy/</link>
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		<title>Damn Kids, Get off the Phone</title>
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Would you believe that teenagers these days send an average of 2,772 text messages a month?! That&#8217;s an average of 80 per day! This shocking statistic comes from Nielson, via a New York Times article. I caught wind of it via Spark.
I read that and feel thoroughly old. This statistic in and of itself is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/06/17/damn-kids-get-off-the-phone/</link>
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		<title>Resuming the podcasts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never stated it outright, but I basically stopped doing the podcast. My initial ambition was to do a weekly show. Then bi-weekly. Then monthly. Then 10 episodes per year. And in 2008, I only produced 3 episodes. So far in 2009 I haven&#8217;t even attempted the podcast.
The reason I stopped seems rather selfish but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/05/23/resuming-the-podcasts/</link>
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		<title>What that Job Description REALLY Means</title>
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It&#8217;s no secret that job applications use their own tricky language. Whether hiring managers are trying to trick us, or simply trying to be as formal and vague as they can, it&#8217;s a unique code that requires deciphering.
But very often the job descriptions can mislead. Many young people, especially straight out of school, find that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/05/21/what-that-job-description-really-means/</link>
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		<title>Now Hiring, If You&#8217;re Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh how I wish that were true as a general statement, but this time it&#8217;s really only to do with the computer science and engineering field. An article in the New York Times reveals the shamefully, and underrated, short half-life of a software or hardware engineer.
According to a survey &#8230; six years after finishing college, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/05/01/now-hiring-if-youre-young/</link>
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		<title>Half of Everything Goes to Rent</title>
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It has long been known that twentysomethings in New York, especially those who are straight out of school and into their first job, will spent half of their wages on rent alone. That&#8217;s half to rent, and half to everything else. Turns out this practice is no longer just for the young lot. A new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/04/21/half-of-everything-goes-to-rent/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis</title>
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This week, I was quoted in an article in Toronto&#8217;s Eye Weekly about what&#8217;s it&#8217;s like to go through the quarterlife crisis. Somehow, it seems that after our nearly-hour-long conversation, the writer extracted an awkwardly worded quote about how education is a lie and how finding a job stinks.
Among the implicit promises made to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.twentyhood.com/2009/04/05/welcome-to-your-quarterlife-crisis/</link>
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