Twenty Something Sense

Almost any job these days uses some type of spreadsheet and in most cases that means you’re using Microsoft Excel. I use Excel all the time both personally and at work and I’m betting you do as well.

One of the things I noticed when I first started working was the difference between a “well formatted” Excel document and just an Excel document. The difference is that the formatted version is readable and easier to gain information from while the second is illegible, hard to understand and frustrating. The second Excel sheet is honestly the typical (I’d guess 80% of the time) which means delays in work, improper decision making and unnecessary stress/frustration.

Time and time again I see people with comcast, yahoo, msn, hotmail, work and other random domains in their email addresses and I always wonder why they are NOT using Gmail.  Gmail is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) free services in the entire universe hands down.  If someone would like to combat [...]

For everyone who is still down in the dumps about the economy and all of the negatives it has brought along with it to the office - pay decreases, tightened corporate budgets, layoffs, no-travel mandates, forced vacation, and all the rest - have you looked at your 401(k) lately? The S&P 500 is up close to 40% since the [...]

The word ‘budget’ has been stereotyped into a negative word that brings connotations of spending less, not having enough money and generally having poor spending habits.  This is simply not true and it actually infuriates me that it has been cast as a negative term.  Let me draw a parallel to another word so that [...]