Thanks to every community member, and really, everyone who's contributed, commented, and read over the past 9 months. And congrats to those of you who made the Top 100.

We launched Brazen Careerist in March 2008 with 50 awesome bloggers and an idea. Well, now we’re going strong at 350 bloggers and too many ideas to contain. Since launch we’ve been honored to publish and syndicate thousands of amazing posts. We’ve scoured through the archives to find the most viewed, most commented on, most controversial and best written posts of all time. From questions of the validity of marriage, to what will come of Gen Y men, to the 10 things you need to do before you quit your day job, the Brazen Top 100 is an amazingly comprehensive list.

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed, commented and read over the past 9 months. And congrats to those of you who made the Top 100. If you think we missed anything, or you want to add a worthy post, just leave a comment with a link. Enjoy!

Career Advice

1. Adam McFarland: My Weekends Used to Be 75% Work. It Wasn't Good. -- Work/life balance is a very touchy subject for anyone who runs a business. You clearly love your company, but happiness is rarely (if ever) achieved by loving one thing and neglecting your mental/physical help or your relationships with others.

2. Rebecca Thorman: Why Gen Y Should Discuss Politics at Work -- Taboo topics are quickly becoming acceptable as part of Generation Y’s demand for authenticity and transparency. Except, maybe, for politics.

3. Beth Harris: Looking for Signs of About-To-Lose-Your-Job? Here They Are. -- In a time of economic downturn, if you want to find out if you are about to get the axe for no fault of your own, ask yourself a few questions.

4. Ali Hale: 7 People to Avoid Like Hell in the Office -- Successfully negotiating office life means avoiding people who are generally a pain in the ass to be around (i.e. people who sap your energy and unnecessarily take up your time).

5. Allie Osmar: How I Felt on Sunday Nights Told Me It Was Time to Quit -- During the first year of my career, Sunday evening often left me with a feeling of dread, knowing that Monday was just around the corner.

6. Andrea Emerson: Go Ahead and Give Up: Why It Makes Sense to Neglect Your Worst Skills -- On a scale of 0 to 10, let’s say you were born a 6 in one area. You work hard at it, and over time, you climb up to an 8. The problem is that the world only pays for a 10.

7. Jonathan Mead: Free Career Advice from Marketers, Lawyers, and Politicians -- I know what you're thinking. What could I possibly learn from the three groups that have the worst reputation? Hear me out a minute.

8. Alexandra Levit: 6 Tips to Land Your Dream Job -- Do you have a job that’s just like everyone else’s? Are you looking for a nine-to-five…but wish you weren’t?

9. Lance Haun: Why You Hate HR and How to Fix It -- If you are a rank and file employee, it is because their incompetence and organizational value is never addressed by the leaders of the company. If you are an executive, you hate HR because you have no idea how to fix it and make it better.

10. Jennifer Williamson: Being Nice Can Hurt a Woman’s Business -- Is being "nice" good for your business, or does it hurt you? And are women entrepreneurs and businesspeople under more pressure to be nice than men?

11. Holly Hoffman: Students: No One is Going to Pay You for Your Intellectual Curiosity -- Once you leave college, nobody is asking you to make a business of having an informed mind, questioning the way your mind works, or finding an outlet for your creativity.

12. Harry McIntosh: How to Get That Senior Position Without the Traditional Experience -- I have thrown together the best advice I was given by my peers and seniors that has set me up for success and helped me achieve my recent promotion to an IT Team Manager.

13. Jenn Barnes: How to Talk About Religion When You’re At Work -- Do we have a rising problem with religious intolerance in the workplace or are more employees standing up for their rights? Both forces could be at work, but the biggest problem in the workplace is not religious indifference or tolerance.

14. Angela Marino: Five Things You Should Know if You’re Young and Trying to Get to the Top -- Gen Yers are often ridiculed for their desire to get to the top fast. Most of us feel, however, that there is nothing wrong with being young and ambitious. But, if you’re making the choice to be on the fast track, be prepared; it’s not all fun and games.

15. Ryan Healy: 8 On-the-Job Rules You Unfortunately Won’t Learn in College -- College is a great place to learn how to work hard, party hard, and make friends--but not as much about the business world, because business in the real world is about experience, confidence, and the network you build.

16. Dan Schawbel: Are People More Important Than Projects in the Workplace? -- Collaboration builds stronger rapport and projects are great resume builders.

17. Presh Talwalkar: Hey Boss, Stop Striving for Obedience at the Cost of Worker Indifference and Silence -- It is only in contradiction that character is disclosed. That is why autocratic employers usually remain so ignorant about the true nature of their subordinates.

18. Presh Talwalkar: 10 Things About the Working World I Wish I Knew in College -- No matter how smart you can be in college, you will still get surprised by the working world.

19. Marilyn Coates: Girl’s Guide to Making Your Weekend Wardrobe Work for the Weekday 9-to-5 -- Balancing my professional style with my own personal style is a little tough for me. My wardrobe is conservative to begin with, but I’m having trouble pulling off a chic look for the office.

20. Holly Hoffman: Practice Your Pick-Up to Get Better Networking Skills -- A player guy is social, has great communication skills, is articulate, has lots of friends and are basically humorous and playful. Interesting. These were all qualities that I actually wanted to possess.

21. Erik Folgate: Avoiding Bad Body Language in an Interview -- Your first impression with a company is the interview. Your body language will speak louder than the garbage coming out of your mouth.

22. Rachel Canfield: I Can’t Shake the Feeling of Being Trapped in a Lifetime of Work -- After spending eight hours on a Tuesday at home instead of at a cubicle, I remembered that a lifetime of work isn’t all that’s in my life.

23. Susan Johnston: 10 Things to Do Before You Quit Your Day Job -- Ever since I left my day job, I've had a lot of people asking "how did you know you were ready?" or "what can I do to get to that point?"

24. Daniel Bowen: How I’m Making the Most of a Dead-End Job for At Least Another Year -- I found out from a co-worker that the girl who had my job before me watched Grey’s Anatomy and anything else she could online, and that the guy before her brought in DVD’s to watch at work.

25. Holly Hoffman: Why I Banned Popcorn from the Office: It’s Just Unprofessional -- When you do work in such close proximity with others for that long, you ought to take into account what might be offensive to others. I'm not saying you can't pop popcorn, but enough with the 9 a.m. lasagna baking.

26. Dan Schawbel: 10 Step Beginner’s Guide to Blogging Your Personal Brand -- As a blog coach for a Fortune 500 company, I always recommend executives writing at least 5 posts before they publish a single one. I give this advice because no one wants to visit or read a blog with no content.

27. Lance Haun: Following Happiness Probably Isn’t the Path to Career Satisfaction -- People should write about things that they are good at writing about in order to be successful bloggers. Anybody can write about things in a way that makes them happy. It is a low standard to hit.

28. Andy Drish: What Do I Do About An MBA? -- If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in the middle of a large decision: Do I start an MBA or not?

Personal Development

29. Marc Chernoff: 21 Keys to Magnetic Likeability -- Likeability is tied deeply into some of your most stubborn, long-standing habits and behaviors.

30. Kayla Gregory: I Wish I Had Passion in My Life -- I got pretty excited last night when I had a glass of wine with my spaghetti dinner. But that’s nothing to build a life around.

31. Marc Chernoff: 52 Sunday Evening Meditations on Life -- I sit silently each Sunday evening before bedtime and repeat one meditation as a mantra in my mind.

32. Ronnie Nurss: You’ll Be So Much Happier When You Stop Worrying About How Everything Will Turn Out -- It’s a blast and ultimate high when you can enjoy an activity with absolutely no fear - we’ve all been there. Imagine doing it everyday though.

33. Marc Chernoff: 77 Keys to Living Well Before You Die -- Time flies. Life is what you make of it. Everyday is a day of opportunity.

34. Marc Chernoff: 25 Sharp Cuts of Time-Saving Wisdom -- Time is a vital constituent of life… so time saving activities are life saving. The best way to save time is to simply do things right the first time.

35. Presh Talwalkar: Relax. A Bad Result Does Not Necessarily Mean You Made a Bad Decision -- So what’s wrong with our conventional thinking? Our principle mistake is judging decisions based on results.

36. Amanda Linehan: How to Be More Courageous Every Day -- Use courage when making decisions, and your life will be much richer and fulfilling.

37. Lindsay Berglund: Don’t Dismiss Your Enthusiasm for What You Think is Lack of Talent -- No, not everyone in the world can sing “well” or draw “well.” But why should that stop our enthusiasm?

38. Jonathan Mead: Getting Things Done Can Undermine Your Purpose-Driven Life -- There’s nothing essentially wrong with being more productive to achieve our goals. The problem occurs when our happiness is based on our productivity.

39. Victoria Gutierrez: Train Wreck: What to Do When Life Gets Really Bad -- We like to think that when we do go outside people can't tell that we've been in our SpongeBob pajamas eating peanut butter with a spoon for 4 days, but they totally can.

40. Katelyn Osborne: Relax, Small Talk Doesn’t Have to Be So Intimidating -- Sure those conversation starters are fine for a quick brush with a colleague when you really don’t want to have a conversation that lasts longer than 15 seconds, but when you want to connect with someone you have to be more memorable than the weather.

41. Marc Chernoff: 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday -- The Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations.

42. Victoria Gutierrez: I’m Way More Generation Y Than I Thought. You, Too? -- I mean, who are we to think that we are beautiful and unique snowflakes? Or, at least, a new breed of worker and society contributor?

43. Jonathan Mead: 10 Ways to Recover Your Brainwashed Mind -- If we don’t own our minds, we’re like pawns in a game where we’re not the player.

44. Michael Moniz: 30 Questions to Change Your Life -- This is an activity to help you start creating your life the way you want it to be. It is all about getting results in your life.

45. Jonathan Mead: 7 Little Bits of Wisdom to Help You Regain Ownership of Your Mind -- We’ll claim our freedom as long as our comfort zone is not violated. We rebel when the risk is minimal.

46. Ryan Healy: All the Little Things Really Are Important -- Tragedy will happen more and more as we get older. When it does, we sit back and reflect, but unfortunately we probably forget too soon. And we go on stressing out about life.

Relationships

47. Holly Hoffman: Don’t Tell My Boyfriend: My Work Might Be My One True Love -- There are so many things I want to pursue that I can’t imagine cutting anything. It’s asking a lot that I’m not adding anything.

48. Adam Gilbert: Our Parents Are Getting Divorced and Why You Might, Too -- Fairly recently, it seems as though no one wants to be Mrs. or Mr. anyone anymore. Everyone wants to be their own person. I am absolutely all for that.

49. Angela Marino: How to Criticize So That Others Can Really Use It -- Knowing the kinds of criticisms we like to receive (if you can even like receiving criticism), will help you dish it out.

50. Milena Thomas: My Own Priceless Love Data--It’s All Yours for Free -- As a madly in love, happily married woman who recently (and I think successfully) hooked up two of her single friends, I have garnered priceless love data.

51. Holly Hoffman: I Could Settle for An Ordinary Life -- I have nightmares. There’s one that revolves around divorce, debt, failed parenthood and suburbia, and there’s one that mostly involves being alone for the rest of my life realizing at 47 that all I really ever wanted was a family.

52. Adam Gilbert: Engaged? Why? Does Getting Married Serve Any Purpose These Days? -- I think marriage is just a contract. There are exciting parts of the deal and not so exciting parts of the deal. But ultimately, I think marriage is something people just do. It just happens. Like becoming a cog in a wheel.

53. Christien Louviere: Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About How I Got Engaged -- Three months of planning and preparation went into the engagement night, so I’ve decided to break the entire story up into a few posts. In this post, I will give you the story about the night I asked Heather Platt to be my wife…I think that’s what I said to her.

54. Milena Thomas: A Married Girl’s Guide to Staying That Way -- My own parents divorced when I was in college. In fact, I supported the decision. They were unhappy, so I figured, why not break it off? In retrospect, my views as an immature 19 year old were pretty much worthless.

55. Justin Dickinson: Why It’s Totally Fine That I Hate Talking to You on the Phone -- I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much I dislike phone calls. I don’t mind a quick call here or there (though I prefer a text message,) but any long call that involves important decision making or conversation I dread.

56. Kristen Fischer: Don’t Feel Like You Have to Have It All Figured Out -- Just for now, just for your After-College, experience life without too many things holding you down. Travel, spend time with friends, take that cool job you’ve always wanted . . . because you can.

Culture

57. Cameron Schaefer: A Millennial Asks, “Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibility?” -- This is what’s wrong with our society. We’ve become a people that hold everyone responsible, but ourselves.

58. Michael Cecchin: May This Common Enemy Unite Us All: Unnecessary Small Talk -- It robs you of your life at parties. Makes you contemplate suicide on airplanes. Doubles your time at the gym, and usually slaps you around like a little bitch at the mall.

59. Andy Drish: What You Can Learn from the Bar Scene -- I probably logged more hours in the bar during college than I did in the classroom. (Sad, but true.) But believe it or not, you can actually learn a lot from spending time in a bar.

60. Tim Weaver: America, Class Warfare is Upon You -- I'm talking about a government that takes $800 billion of our dollars to selectively choose which rich people will get to thrive in the coming financial meltdown.

61. Carla Blumenthal: The Intimidation Factor: Gen Y Males and Females -- A good guy friend said to me, “I just hope that you don’t work too hard. I mean, you are a bright, pretty young girl, you don’t want to end up alone.”

62. Chris Pund: After College, Golf Replaces Drinking Games -- I think it is interesting how closely golf in the workplace can be compared to drinking and partying in college.

63. Sam Davidson: 4 Things Non-Profits and Everyone Else Should Know About Communicating with Gen Y -- Gen Y doesn't communicate in a one-way style. Leadership and authority are viewed differently. Conversations, and not proclamations, are the way information is shared.

64. Ryan Healy: Generation Y: Inheriting a World That Must Be Fixed -- The world, and more specifically, The United States, is screwed up right now.

65. Rebecca Thorman: Women Will Lead This Generation. What Will Men Do? -- I really like alpha males, but these male leaders are not only a dying, but now an unnecessary breed.

66. Holly Hoffman: Living with the Results of My Online Dating Experiment -- It would just be insane to say that I am actually in love at this point. We’ve been seeing each other for about a month. But to say I am in the process is true enough.

67. Ryan Healy: Crystal Ball: 10 Ways Generation Y Will Change the Workplace -- We have a voice, and we have the ear of the decision makers. Not bad for a group of lazy, entitled, twentysomethings.

68. Jackie Leventhal: What a Bra Fitting Taught Me About Advice -- What’s my bra fitting history? A story waiting to happen, basically. I’d never had a bra consultation beyond my mom standing in the corner of a department store dressing room, adjusting bra straps or getting different sizes and telling me that I’m, “so cute.”

69. Rebecca Thorman: What Generation Y Fears the Most -- Generation Y is generally not able to recognize themselves in these very important things – not war, or terror, economic crisis, or the general misery and abyss that too often characterizes the world today.

70. Marilyn Coates: Learning to Hate (and Break) The Stereotype of Generation Y Behavior -- Perhaps I’m just naive, okay really naive, but I entered my first post-grad job not concerned with a potential divide that could exist between the Baby Boomer generation and the Millennials.

71. Ali Hale: Top Ten Cubicle Meltdowns Caught on Video -- We all have a bad day at the office once in a while. But it’s not usually quite this bad.

72. Dave Knox: 21 Ways the Digital Revolution is Leaving the Consumer Behind -- “My Brain Hurts” is a great look at how the digital revolution is leaving the consumer behind. Or in other words, how geek marketers like me are pushing the technology faster than consumers are keeping up.

73. David Stehle: One Giant Step Forward and One Giant Leap Backward -- I just don’t get it. Someone please explain it to me because I simply can’t comprehend how we can create such a historical moment as electing the first ever black President, and in the very same night, be prehistoric in our views and beliefs when it comes to voting on Proposition 8.

Social Media

74. Ryan Paugh: What My Frat Years Taught Me About Building Community -- Most of you don’t know the Ryan Paugh that people knew in college. Most of you know Ryan Paugh “the BC community manager.” But back in college I was Ryan Paugh “the frat guy.”

75. Meg Roberts: I Forgot Why I Started Blogging in the First Place. Did You? -- I’m not getting paid to blog - I’m doing this for me to help hone my writing skills, to do something I love doing, and to interact with others who might have similar interests.

76. Amy Springer: Are Your Google Searches More Apple Pie, or Orgy? -- Apparently a Florida attorney had intended to argue that Google records showing a large number of pornographic search terms were reflecting community values. The case was later settled out of court.

77. Milena Thomas: Blogging As An Experiment in Courage -- If you dare to blog, you commit to change. People who blog don’t do it because they are interested in ruminating about how stale and stagnant they’ve become and their plans to stay that way Thank You Very Much.

78. Ryan Healy: Twitter and Digg and Facebook: What Business Needs to Learn Now -- Not everyone has a blog, or wants to blog, but you would be hard pressed to find many people who aren’t on some type of social network.

79. DJ Francis: No One Cares, You Are Doing It Wrong, and That is Awesome -- If you think, after reading just a little, that you know all this, hold on until the end. This comes together in a really surprising way, and it works for your marketing department, and for your career, and for your life.

80. Holly Hoffman: Starbucks: Can You Smell Their Desperation? -- There’s something that rubs me wrong about what Starbucks is doing lately. It’s not just the elimination of stores; it’s the constant promotions, the discounts, the free samples, the waffling between light roast and dark.

Politics

81. Nisha Chittal: If You're Online, Forget a Job With Obama -- The application for jobs in the Obama administration is, without a doubt, the most complex piece of work I have ever seen. I wanted to use other words to more accurately describe it, but I can't. Because, if I ever intend to work in politics, I could kill my career before it has even started.

82. Tim Weaver: The Dark Knight Has Much to Teach Us About Our War on Terror -- Studying all of the aspects, themes and questions provoked by Christopher Nolan’s epic sequel would take far more than just one review, but I believe the core of the film is a question. How do you respond to terror?

83. Tim Weaver: The Immorality of Fighting Universal Healthcare -- Until this country recognizes that free health care is essential to personal liberty and pursuit of happiness, we will never see a society that truly reflects the founding fathers’ vision.

84. Meg Roberts: A Different Kind of Undecided Voter -- My absentee ballot came three weeks ago and I haven’t mailed it in yet. In fact, I haven’t even been looking for it; I found it last night by accident, carelessly stuffed between a bill and my bank statement.

85. Vanessa Mason: Universal Healthcare: The Moral Argument -- The moral argument in favor of universal health care dictates that ensuring equality of access to health care is a moral imperative. This moral imperative can stem from religious beliefs or through secular channels such as natural rights and human rights.

86. Tim Weaver: Want Less Government? Stop By Ending the War on Drugs -- The hypocrisy of today’s conservatives is mind-numbing on most issues, and on others, just plain stunning.

87. Monica Evans: What I Learned From A Republican -- I stuck my foot in my mouth one too many times when I said something about Bush being an idiot.

88. Milena Thomas: McCain or Obama’s Healthcare Plan -- How Obama and McCain approach healthcare are similar to how they will approach most of their other policies, so it is worth reviewing.

Other

89. Dorie Morgan: What If We Bailed Out Student Debt Instead? -- There is a $700 billion bailout. You’ve got to be kidding me.

90. 20s Money Guy: Stop Leaching Off Society, and 19 Other Reasons for Generation Y to Pursue Financial Excellence -- Financial excellence is achieved when a person has multiple income streams. Furthermore, financial excellence means that you have assets working for you and building wealth for you. Financial excellence is a fantastic goal.

91. Presh Talwalkar: 40 Things You Can’t Do When You’re Rich -- Being rich is not all it’s cracked up to be. Yes, we all know money is great. But that doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. We forget there actually are some things rich people can’t do.

92. Thursday Bram: Finding My Inspiration Again: 4 Books That Always Make Me Want to Write -- There are days when I really struggle with writing. When I do, I go to one particular bookshelf and pull out one of the four books listed below.

93. Holly Hoffman: I’m Addicted to Books, But Buying Them All Isn’t An Option -- I’ve been a bookworm all my life. If you ask my mom, she’ll tell you it’s the result of her reading books to me in utero.

94. Jun Loayza: Love Spells Death for All Your Other Priorities -- My friend Yu-kai Chou and I have this theory. The theory is that “Women are a hero’s grave.”

95. Katie Konrath: Why U.S. Automakers Deserve to Fail -- They have absolutely refused to innovate and come up with new ideas to stay competitive - all the while spending millions on lobbyists who whine to Congress that if automakers are forced to meet new standards, it will destroy them (and their workers.)

96. Milena Thomas: Why I Still Support the Free Market -- The free market has gotten a bad rap lately. I disagree with those in opposition, and I mused the other day that I'd love to hear a coherent, complete, rational, and emotion-less argument against the free market, because I haven't seen one yet.

97. Erica Douglass: Extreme Frugality is Sometimes a Waste of Your Time -- One thing that consistently amazes me is the sheer number of inventive ways frugal bloggers reduce their expenditures.

98. Dan Schawbel: 5 Steps to Becoming the Gatekeeper of Your Personal Brand -- In the personal branding arena, you have to play the role of the gatekeeper or someone will still what is rightfully your’s

99. Cody McKibben: 22--No! 23--Awesome Tips for Saving Air Travelers Time and Money and Headaches -- Things will start to change in the years ahead as the price of fuel continues to rise and cheap airlines may not be so cheap anymore, so take advantage of inexpensive travel while you still can.

100. Erica Douglass: How to Start a Business With No Money -- It would be nice if it turned into a million-dollar moneymaker, but it doesn’t have to. Your goal is to explore a passion of yours and make a bit of money on the side.