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Wanderlust… Mongolian Adventures (Part One)
I consider myself a seasoned traveler. I’ve visited nearly 30 countries over the years—some more than 20 times. However, most of my travel is for work, which means my experience is often extremely limited. In Tokyo, for instance, it wasn’t until my third trip there that I had time to do anything more than sleep, shower and prepare for the next meeting or lecture.
New FHA Policy Makes Buying a Home Easier…
One of the main tentpoles of the American dream is the hope of owning a home, complete with the white picket fence, red door, and two-car garage. However, for those of us with student loans, the road to home ownership is fraught with obstacles. Rising housing prices, tighter lending criteria, and the fact that massive student loan debt disproportionately impacts people of color means that many of us have found ourselves unable to start building the generational wealth that we crave through real estate because of the money we borrowed to obtain upward mobility in the form of higher degrees.
Data Brokering: The Completely Legal Way Your Personal Info is Being Pirated
Years ago, out of sheer curiosity, I sat down and googled myself. The results both stunned and horrified me.
Within a span of five minutes, I was able to pull up my current address, a shockingly accurate list of all of my prior addresses, the names, addresses, and ages of multiple relatives, my job history, and a slew of other information that I would never EVER publicly publish. I was devastated.
Four Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
Your digital footprint is all the information about you that exists on the internet as a result of your online activity. This includes your search history, your photos and videos (Including the deleted ones like those pesky photos you told your drunk friends not to tag you in, but they did anyway), as well as every single time you like/love something on a social media site. Even your text messages leave a digital footprint.
Wanderlust…Black in Bruges
In the second installment of our travel series, Wanderlust, AmPopsy Contributor, Anab Abdill, revisits one of her favorite “off the beaten path” destinations as she fondly recalls exploring the city of Bruges, Belgium.
LunchClub: Taking the Work Outta Networking
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I put on my best professional attire, hopped in my beater of a car, and tottled into a semi-fancy, networking event at a beautiful LA rooftop. Excited that I might actually network my way to my dream job, I wearily, and in excruciating detail, explained the ups and downs of my life’s journey to the first person who actually approached me to talk. When I finished, I was exhausted (It takes a LOT to condense all 30+ years of your life into a five-minute soliloquy). And the poor woman who’d deigned to talk to me was shell-shocked. As we backed away from each other slowly, I realized that maybe, just maybe, I was approaching networking very, very wrong.