My RSS Feed is a Thinker and blog is #1 for online personal brand thoughts. Dan Schawbel is Gen Y and geared to Gen Y personal brand, but you will benefit regardless of generation. He has Just Posted the Following on his blog:



In college, I had a friend who was always complaining about some aspect of her life. Her classes weren’t going right, a friend wasn’t being nice to her, and all the guys she met were jerks. *Of course, she was great to talk to when I wanted to complain about something–but not a lot of fun to be around at other times. *So we lost touch.



A while ago, I ran into her again in our college alumni group on Linked.* We’d both answered one of those “What have you been up to since college?” questions.



Although my own life wasn’t going quite as well as I wanted, I kept a positive tone to my answer. So did the 14 other alumni to answer the question.



My friend, however, took the forum question as an opportunity to broadcast her frustration with life! *She wrote: *[slightly edited]



You really want to know what my [college education] got me?



NOTHING. I gr