Jessica Bahr is currently finishing her B.S. degree in Physics while transitioning into operations management. As an undergraduate she has taken advantage of many professional development and internship opportunities which have allowed her to witness Gen-Y employment and work issues from both sides of the fence. She writes about issues she sees her generation facing in hopes to enable them to succeed. Besides academics, Jessica has a passion for lean manufacturing, efficiency, networking, boating, and bowling.
Jessica Bahr's blog is Not Your Average Twentysomething.
No matter how productive an efficient we are our greatest asset is our health and you have to make time to take care of yourself. Here are some simple steps to integrating time management into your schedule.
I have learned some valuable skills–first hand–for handling the worst behavior from others.
When chances are within three years you will be working for a different company how to decide what to do, how do you find that direction? If you can’t decided on the job you want think about the lifestyle.
At 6 am my computer turns on, my email program starts, my RSS feeder updates, and iTunes opens to wake me up. I eat my morning oatmeal responding to email, checking updates, news, and formulating my to-do list, which is on my computer. But I had a revelation last week. I got a new phone number and only gave it to a handful of people.
There is one trait that all successful people share; self discipline. Without self discipline one is as successful as a company whose business plan is formulated just to sit on a dusty shelf awaiting the annual meeting when it is dusted off and sits on a table for a couple hours.
Parents are doing a disservice to their children by telling them they can be anything they want to be without adding in ‘if you’re willing to work for it’. The best way to achieve a goal of any sort is to set plan, similar to a feasibility study […]
I’ve worked with the interns who made me understand why people call us generation me, or the entitled generation. But if you view your internship with humility, that it is a fantastic opportunity that you are lucky to have, then there is no way that you won’t take something from it.
A study in the USA today found that 44% of employees between the ages of 18 to 24 feel like they are not treated fairly at work. Education and experience are two necessities for succeeding in the workplace. Just because one may not have them in balanced proportions they are still valuable to a company and should not be excluded […]
I turned on NPR today and heard a lady talking about how todays youth do not have any strong leaders to look up to. She reference Martin Luther King Jr. and that he was 25 years old when he became a civil rights movement leader. He wasn’t appointed to this position by his […]
