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Rebecca ThormanHello, I’m Rebecca Thorman and here’s the latest:

After living in the Midwest my entire life (Illinois, then Wisconsin), I just moved to Washington, DC. My job at the start-up company Alice.com graciously let me keep my position so I work remotely spreading the joy of receiving toilet paper and toothpaste in the mail. I manage PR and Community for the company. My boyfriend Ryan is the co-founder and COO of the start-up company BrazenCareerist.com.

My background is in design, and starting my blog is the best career and life move I’ve ever made. Blogging is how I met Ryan (we’re dorky like that), and Modite has been featured in several media outlets including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Keep reading to find out more, and thanks for stopping by; I like you already.

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Best Career Advice
Helping your career when you’re not middle class (36 comments)
Why Generation Y should job-hop, even in the recession (46 comments)
Skip grad school, life is better with experience (26 comments)
Personal branding, accountability &  just be yourself already (34 comments)
How to step up and have anything but a normal career (31 comments)
Re-Thinking Workaholism (42 comments)

My relationship, made public
 Real-life disclosures on the myth of work/life balance (51 comments)
Careers are like relationships, so ask your mom for advice (40 comments)
A New Residence for Home (31 comments)

Controversial posts on Women
Women will lead Generation Y – what will men do? (48 comments)
Generation Y breeds a new kind of woman (62 comments)
Career women should try harder – especially in the Midwest (44 comments)

I heart Social Media & Blogging
The four truths of blog networks to use to your advantage (31 comments)
My blogging paralysis (33 comments)
Stop writing about social media to be a successful blogger (51 comments)
Social media is difficult like intimacy (45 comments)
Social media doesn’t create new generation leaders (22 comments)
The Corruption of Authenticity (33 comments)

Where you live is important
Moving to a New City (39 comments)
The power of place – what do you think? (38 comments)
Will Gen Y ruin local community? (42 comments)

Getting Personal
How to decide if you have a good job (32 comments)
Trying isn’t good enough (29 comments)

Generation Y cheerleading
What it means to be a Gen Y leader (31 comments)
Generation Y is too quiet, too conservative (68 comments)
The rising rift between Gen X and Gen Y (33 comments)
7 concessions and a challenge to the Gen Y naysayers (35 comments)
Back off: Gen Y’s helicopter parents are a good thing (35 comments)

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Gen Y doesn’t need a reference (47 comments)
Don’t burn bridges is bad career advice (43 comments)

My Favorite
Don’t make career plans – here’s why (47 comments)

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Modite
[Mod-ahyt] ~ Noun.
1) Modern urbanite.

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18 replies on “About This Blog”

[…] Truer words were never spoken Jay. But I hated that part of my first job too – I wanted to make the decisions, so I quit and did my own thing. Why shouldn’t Gen Y do the same? Rebecca Thorman actually describes a friend who is “straddling”, keeping one foot in the workplace and one in the entrepreneurial world. This isn’t a new concept, and I did that for a while too. Lack of sleep is pretty much the price to pay when becoming an entrepreneur and even when first entering the workforce, and I think that’s the real point that Recruiting Animal is making…that and the fact that Gen Y is just going through a point in life that we all go through, and that every generation goes through at some point. In short, that Gen Y is nothing special. That’s most likely true, but we all kind of think our generation is a little bit special, don’t we? It’s kind of like cheering for your favorite football team. […]

[…] The first is the word Modite which is a made-up word combining “Modern” with “Urbanite”. It’s a cute word and is the title of a blog written by a Gen Yer who lives in Madison, WI. While I have no desire to comment on the content of her blog, I do want to comment on the adequateness of calling herself an urbanite. Again, the urban we’re talking about here is Madison, Wisconsin and Madison is not my idea of urban. My loose concept of urban is NYC, San Francisco, Paris, London, Tokyo even Sacramento or Denver. You know, big cities. Lots of people. […]

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