Announcement:
I have started a new blog at that is focused 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.
Take care!
- Marcos Salazar
www.marcossalazar.com
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It wasn’t too hard to see the frustration on her face when she told us, “There really isn’t a guide on how to live your life after college!” A group of friends and I were having some drinks on a nice summer day when Heather, a twenty-six-year-old friend of a friend, happened to join us. When she walked up to our table, I noticed that her demeanor didn’t fit too well with the beautiful weather that sunny day. You could clearly see that something heavy was weighing on her mind, and it looked like it had been there for quite some time. She grabbed a seat across from me and as we chatted about our lives and what had brought us to Washington, DC, I happened to mention that I was working on a book about the psychology of life after college. As I began telling her that the book was about the new challenges twentysomethings were facing as they made the transition from college to today’s working world, I could see I’d piqued her interest. What I soon realized was that by mentioning the topic of the book, I had turned on an emotional faucet within her. In an instant she quickly started pouring out all the personal struggles she had grappled with since leaving college.
She began to talk about how lost she’d felt since graduation and how she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. She spoke about hating her job and wanting to quit so she could move somewhere new. But almost in the same breath she mentioned that she wasn’t sure what she would do if she moved because she didn’t have much money and it was hard to find a good job with just a college degree. Her words sounded really familiar to me. I could easily empathize because, not only did I go through my own personal struggles after graduation, but I also had heard this kind of experience time and time again from almost every twentysomething I had encountered.
