Lessons a Twenty Something Can Learn From This Weeks Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23
Author: Elana Lyn Gross
1. Take an unpaid internship that requires you to work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Don’t worry if your soon-to-be boss says that, “when I sleep, which is rare, I do so standing up like a cow.” You just graduated college, you’re young, ambitious, educated–you don’t need sleep. Also, don’t worry if your soon-to-be boss asks if you don’t mind doing personal tasks like cutting her hair. This is a great opportunity for life-long learning. I’m sure that there is at least one you-tube tutorial where you can learn to cut hair.
2. Get an assistant. They are useful. James Van Der Beek has one and so should you. I can’t even tell you the number of times I wish I had someone to try questionable sushi or carry me over puddles. James is a lucky guy.
3. It is completely ethical to tell your roommate that an apartment blogger is coming to your apartment to interview you when the “blogger” is actually a foster care specialist interviewing you to see if you’d be a fit parent. Always read paperwork before you sign it. Don’t assume you are signing your consent to have your apartment photographed when really you are signing your consent to a child.
4. If you can’t afford an assistant get the aforementioned a foster child to be your assistant.
5. Get a job where your “busy season” only last two weeks.
6. Don’t trust an employee who uses “allegedly too often” someone allegedly ordered a peppermint mocha. They may be litigious which would make you nervous to fire them.
7. When you buy things just to flirt with the man selling it you may not actually be interested in the item and you will abandon it.
8. Don’t say something is “totes cray cray” even if you are James Van Der Beek.
9. Don’t film a movie where an adult male has to switch bodies with a teenage girl. It will be a train reck.
10. Continue watching Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.
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I graduated from George Washington University (go Colonials!) in May 2011 and am quickly realizing that there is not an instruction manual for post grad life. You can read about my post graduate odyssey at my blog The Preppy Post Grad, Gen Y Hub, Forever 20 Somethings, and University Ave. When I am not writing or working I enjoy spin classes and, when the weather is nice, I love biking and long walks in Central Park. I was born and raised in Manhattan and am a proud New Yorker although I believe New Yorkers wear far too much black. I am likely to be found wearing Lilly and sipping a latte. "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." -Eileen Caddy "I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles." -Audrey Hepburn “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor RooseveltSubscribe
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