Everyone’s worked a summer job that they absolutely loathe. For me, it was as the soup/sandwich guy at Nordstrom’s Café before my freshman and sophomore years in college [the pre-internship summers], where I had to wear funky clothes, a weird hat that concealed my mop-like hair, and spend six hours a day schmoozing with women who took their time ordering but felt I never moved fast enough.

Coincidentally, I learned to keep things in perspective when situations got a little, well, heated above the 160-degree stoves that kept the soup fresh. And that has a lot to do with training your mind to focus on more than just the present.

During those summers, I would leave Nordy’s and go straight to band practice or pre-production for a short film I was working on with some buddies. And throughout my daily shift, I found inspiration in the people who would pass through the food line; using said inspiration for song lyrics or characters/scenes that I could use in the script.

But if those types of endeavors aren’t of interest to you, all you have to do is focus on your forthcoming paycheck. True as it may be, you can have endless fun without money. But chances are, you’re going to need it at some point, albeit going to the movies with your friends or road-tripping somewhere.

[Then again, if payday is a long ways away and your shift isn't going as well as you'd like, your last resort is realizing that at least one of your friends are feeling the exact same way.]

But seriously, just keep your eyes focused on the big picture. ‘Cause even though they can be a pain throughout the day, summer jobs are a small price to pay for the fun things you can do with your friends post-shift.

As Grad Day nears, you’ve got a lot to be proud of. If you’re being recognized as a valedictorian, congrats! But if you’re not, the fact that you’re graduating high school is a huge accomplishment to celebrate!
And if you don’t believe me, take these numbers into consideration:

More than 70% of high school students go to [...]

I’m a big soccer fan.  I played, I now coach and I try to catch games whenever I can.  Every four years, soccer fans like me are thrown into a month-long euphoric celebration, otherwise known as the World Cup.  To fully appreciate the United State’s participation, the Dormbuys crew closed the office yesterday morning and [...]

Last week, I was hanging out at my friend’s house, listening to her younger sister – a soon-to-be high school grad / girl I’ve known for almost 10 years – talk about the summer trip she’s been planning with her friends. And while I was definitely taken aback by the fact that my friend’s sister [...]

With graduation just around the bend, there are three things that are bound to happen once your ceremony concludes:
1) You and your fellow graduators will put the kibosh on your high school careers by throwing your caps sky high.
2) Vitamin C’s “Graduation [Friends Forever]” jam will indeed play, drawing tears from the girls and… well, [...]

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It may not be something you’ve had to do at home, but sharing a room with one or more people may be the best thing to do when you go to college, especially in your freshman year. Yes, a dorm is noisy, there is hardly any privacy, and you have to put up with the [...]

Are you graduating? Moving out of the dorms and into an apartment? Moving period? Whatever it may be for you, you are moving on and that inevitably means that you have stuff that you won’t need from your dorm. What are you going to do with it?
Here are some options that the D.B. Crew [...]

I thought this had to be an April Fools Joke when I came across what Kentucky Fried Chicken is calling the Double Down.  After doing a little digging, it’s 100% real.  KFC even has a webpage, commercial and countdown timer for it’s launch here.

“This one-of-a-kind sandwich features two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken [...]

I came across a post that Seth Godin had recently posted on his blog, in which he started a conversation about what you can learn from a lousy teacher.  He wrote…
If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you [...]