NextGen Scope

“Prediction 31: In the future, skilled professionals will flee their corporate jobs and become their own bosses in ever-increasing numbers. They’ll become entrepreneurs, consultants, prostitutes, and cartoonists.” – Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future I can only aspire to be as accurate in my predictions as Scott Adams was in The Dilbert Future. Although the book was written in 1997 (before I was born), Adams accurately predicted today’s gig economy by stating that in the future, many people will become their own bosses. Adams was spot-on with entrepreneurs and consultants, but other modern day self-employees also include Uber and Lyft drivers, independent contractors, and social media influenc

I had the high honor and privilege to be one of the seven NMC members given the opportunity to attend the Worldcom PR Annual Conference in Vienna, Austria earlier this month. Going into this trip, I had a lot of expectations and looked forward to an exciting adventure. Most of my expectations revolved around what I hoped to personally gain from the experience. Whether it was the industry knowledge I would attain, the new LinkedIn connections I would acquire, or even just the photos of beautiful scenery I would be able to show off to my friends back home -- I knew this trip would be worth loads to me. But, as I sit here, a 10-hour plane ride and a couple weeks of time between myself and beaut

The Eastern Oregon University National Millennial and Gen Z Community has been busy this year; these are just some things we have been up to as a chapter. We help each other become the best we can be: the best leaders and the best students. As a chapter we have done local trips, and speaker visits to build our chapter and community around us. Each day we are becoming better individuals, and learning something new. National Millennial Community and Gen Z at the national level has been our catalyst to want to do more behind the scenes. As a chapter we made a huge decision to put in more work, and make the most out of our chapter, and time as a college student in NMC. We made connections to al

It was not long after a group of American millennials arrived in Europe that we heard the expression for the first time, “America is not the center of the world”. “Well of course it’s not!” we responded the first, second, then third time we heard someone say this announcement in one way or another. This prompted us to ask, “How does the world see Americans?” Let’s start with the basics. As a group of 9 people we represented 5 ethnicities, 3 countries, a range of socioeconomic statuses, and every level of experiences that has shaped us individually into who we are today. On paper we seemed like a pretty diverse group, right? The only thing we truly had in common was that we all live in the Un