Announcement:
This post has been moved to a new page on a new blog I have started that focuses on Personal and Career Development for Young Professionals. It can be found at www.MarcosSalazar.com.
As
opposed to straight out career blogs that cover resumes, the job
search, or interviewing skills, I will taking a psychology approach to
not only these parts of your career but also will be covering the
personal, social, and workforce challenges that college graduates and
young professionals are facing in the 21st century. As I did in The
Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide, I utilize a psychological approach
to covering these topics and will be integrating important research
within real life situations to provide practical advice for people's
personal and professional development (if you have read The Turbulent
Twenties Survival Guide you know what I mean).
Some of the topics I
will be covering are
- learning how to find and follow what you love doing
- practical steps on how to get into Flow at work
- understanding the psychology of happiness and affective forecasting
- managing the tyranny of choice
- learning how to cultivate your emotional and cultural intelligence
- networking in the internet age
- learning how to brand yourself professionally
- discovering how to use blogging as a professional tool (it is the new resume of our generation)
- how to become more of an entrepreneur
- using social-networking for professional advancement
- getting over post-college depression
- helping to answer all those questions that we work through during our 20s and 30s such as: Who am I? Who do I want to become? Where am I going? What are my passions in life? Am I making the right decisions?
So I hope you take a look at the site, subscribe, and share it with friends.
I have also created a series of more in-depth posts about post-college depression at MarcosSalazar.com. Here I will delving much deeper into the increasingly common problem of depression, anxiety, and stress emerging adults of Generation Y through a series of posts as well as show how it can affect your work and career. I want to raise awareness of this epidemic among millennials and let people know that they are not alone in facing this problem. I exposed this problem in the Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide where I provided the first comprehensive explanation of this common problem and here I will expand on my findings as well as provide ways that you can combat the post-college blues. So please visit MarcosSalazar.com for the latest information on this topic.
Take care!
- Marcos Salazar
www.marcossalazar.com
____________________________
I have been getting so many emails on this topic that I had to repost this. So thanks for all the great emails and keep them coming!
In doing research for my book, I was so surprised by how many graduates told me that either they had become depressed or knew of fellow twentysomethings who had developed major depression. Along with depression, many spoke about feeling extremely nervous about how their life was unfolding because they did not know what the next step was and felt like they were simply wondering through their twenties. Because of nature of this transitional period, it is extremely common to struggle with an array of negative emotions that arise from all the challenges they face after college.
Many of the symptoms that twentysomethings said they experience after college are:
