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YP Getaway: Charlotte, N.C.
If you want to escape to a place where you can fill your days with outdoor adventures and retire at night to urban comforts--with a healthy dose of Southern charm--consider booking a flight to Charlotte, N.C. After I recently spent a weekend there, here is what I can recommend:
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Conquering the Kitchen and Learning to Cook
Many Young Professionals don’t regularly cook, have never thrown a dinner party and might even be overwhelmed at the thought. If you had asked me five years ago to make dinner it would have consisted of spaghetti with a splash of Ragu. I didn’t know my way around a kitchen, and didn’t care. Then we bought a house with a large kitchen. Maybe it was years of pent up passion, maybe it was the fact that I actually had space to cook or maybe I just felt that I should be able to provide a nutritional meal for my family. Whatever the catalyst, I wanted to learn to cook.Read more
Q&A: Jon Severson on a Weekend of Skiing and Networking
Jon Severson is the president and founder of the Colorado Young Professionals. From Friday, Feb. 26, to Sunday, Feb. 28, savvy YPs from around the country gathered in Colorado to hit the slopes and network.Read more
Managing Information Overload: Turning Data Into Dollars
Late last month Marketplace Money did a story on "hauls," online video diaries about the junk people buy. Call me a Luddite, but that makes me want to cuddle up with Tolstoy's War and Peace. If you have a different reaction it might be because you--like so many savvy entrepreneurs in the information age--are seeing dollar signs where others might see cultural decline.
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Running Groups Offer YPs More Than Just Fitness
When Alex Yates, a marketing consultant, relocated two years ago to the Chicago area from San Diego he joined a running club. He had been a member of a track club in San Diego, and eyed the Chicago Area Runners Association, or CARA, as a way to integrate into his new community.
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A Different Spring Break Travel Idea: Destination Gulf Coast
Year after year, the popular spring break destinations are predictable--Mexico, Florida, California, Vegas, the Caribbean, and for those who can afford it, Europe. But why not try a new spot and combine your spring break travel with a little volunteering? It can be a great resume builder in this grim job market, and can help cut down the costs of travel at a time when budgets for many are tighter than usual.
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Returning Home from War - Part 2
Our chariot was a C-17 cargo plane, full of cargo. The Crew Chief pushed us down the side of a couple of large cargo containers, which look like trailers off of an 18-wheeler Mack truck, and around a couple of Army Humvees to our black canvas troop seats that fold down from the side of the aircraft. These are the same seats paratroopers’ use prior to jumping. It's a five-hour flight to Germany so the 12 of us found room amongst or on top of the cargo to stretch out. I laid down on the steel fRead more
Returning Home from War
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Miami Tall Ship Heads South to Bring Aid to Haiti
While most young professionals spend their days holed up in cubicles, Jared Talarski, 29, has made a career captaining a schooner and lending a hand to those in need.
He spoke with YPNation about his sailing career and recent relief voyage to Haiti on the Liberty Schooner.
You're a captain on a ship. What's that job like? Read more
