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Modern Yuppie: How to create a budget
Whether you’re making $50, $500 or $5,000 per month it’s important to have a strong grasp on your finances and the best way to do that is by following a budget. Budgeting can seem hard and unattainable, but once you have a strong grip on your finances you won’t regret...
Modern Yuppie: Focus your job search
The writer and editor of Ms. Career Girl (www.mscareergirl.com), Nicole Crimaldi, uses her popular website to address the needs of ambitious young professionals and mentor college seniors through the job-search process. Recently, Crimaldi said that “lack of focus in applications is (in my opinion) the number one problem with recent...
Taxes 101: information for students
Each year we greet tax time with as much enthusiasm as a pap smear or a prostate exam. But, just as both of those procedures are important to our health, doing our taxes is important too.
The Modern Yuppie: How to negotiate a good wage
You’re looking for a job – any job – for after graduation. And wage is probably the last thing on your mind, you just want a full-time, decent-paying job that will further your career, right?
Modern Yuppie: Finding a job the non-traditional way
It’s the digital age; cell phones, computers, social media and email seem to be ruling the world. Everything is going online; including the traditional way of finding a job.
Modern Yuppie: Getting out of debt
Generation Y has more debt than any generation before. Tuition fees are higher than ever before and the average 20-something is graduating from college with $20,000 plus in student loans, and other debt and credit card debt is a major problem too.
Modern Yuppie: Finding a job sooner rather than later
I know what you’re thinking; it’s only January, why on earth should I be looking for a job for the spring now? I have plenty of time. But in actuality, you don’t. Time is running out quickly. Here are three reasons that you should start your job search sooner rather...
Real Life AdVANtures: Surfing couches in Capitol Hill
So it begins. Girl in Van. Van across border. Girl in USA! I’m in Seattle to be exact. Am I going to hunt Patrick Dempsey and the rest of the Grey people? I can’t say that I won’t try… It was almost tough to leave yesterday. It’s hard to bid...
Modern Yuppie: "making the transition"
The transition from a dorm to an apartment, from a grocery store job to an office, from a 10:00 a.m. wake-up call to a 7:00 a.m. one, from student loans to a mortgage and everything in between. I’m a fourth-year journalism student at TRU and, along with many of you,...
Clearwater shop owner as unique as her store
Michelle Methot has been drawn to the unique and mystical ever since childhood. “It’s like an oven,” she said. “The front burner is the traditional life, with the back burners symbolizing dreams and aspirations. I decided to live for the backburner. I’ve always been stimulated by a desire to perceive...
Editor embedded with the Canadian Forces
An explosion blasts in the distance. Several more blasts detonate, and then four insurgent men sprint back to our base camp. Lt. Ian Nash stands beside me and practically buzzes with excitement as he informs me that the tanks perched on the hill can see my face clear as day,...
Sasquatch: the chase
The legend of the Sasquatch is one which has intrigued many people for centuries. Stories stem from Aboriginal oral tradition and from accounts from the first pioneers in the west. It’s a story that refuses to fade away, even without undisputable evidence. It’s twisted within the history of B.C. and...
Happy birthday, Euro
On Dec. 31, 2008, as the world was gathered around television sets, city squares and nightclubs to count down the final moments of the year, another entirely different milestone was about to be reached. The euro, the European Union’s common currency—and now used by 16 countries—marked its 10th anniversary on...
Insight for Outsiders - Latvia
**Name:** Irina Labeja **Age:** 20 **Hometown:** Riga, Latvia **Field of study:** Tourism Management **Three things you need to know about Latvia:** **1.** Latvia is a small country with 22.3 million inhabitants and only about half of them are of Latvian nationality. **2.** It is famous for its amber and sandy...
Beer brewing 101
What is the nature of civilization? Theories abound: Civilization means a responsible government; civilization means people working in harmony; civilization means health, happiness and the—insert your favourite country’s name here—way. One theory I’ve always respected has more to do with what started civilization as we know it in the first...
