Hey Roomie
Moving back home to live with your parents? You aren’t alone. According to new data from Pew, in 2014, for the first time in more than 130 years, adults ages 18 to 34 were slightly more likely to be living in their parents’ home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household. Now, of course, a lot of the whole hanging out with mom or dad more is due to that whole Great Recession thing but also it is because people are getting married later in life. There has been a drop in the number of Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35. Heck, another Pew analysis projected that as many as one-in-four of today’s young adults may never marry. Interestingly, when it comes to living with your family there are some big differences between men and women. For men ages 18 to 34, living at home with mom and/or dad has been the dominant living arrangement since 2009. In 2014, 28% of young men were living with a spouse or partner in their own home, while 35% were living in the home of their parent(s). Young women though are still more likely to be living with a spouse or romantic partner (35%) than they are to be living with their parent(s) (29%). (Related: College Grad Correspondent: “What Moving Back Home Has Taught Me About Moving Forward”)
Snap To It
If you’ve been making fun of Snapchat or saying it’s just for teenagers, you may want to think again. Now companies may require you to use Snapchat to even apply for a job with them. Online retailer Everlane just announced they were now accepting job applications submitted via Snapchat. The job post encourages applicants to make Snapchat stories to show why they are the ones for the position. Everlane isn’t even the first company to do this. GrubHub actually uses Snapchat to pick its summer interns. Hey, it’s definitely more entertaining than a cover letter and can show a person’s capability (albeit in a certain way.) But with so many brands hopping on the Snapchat train, could this become the new norm? Read more about it here. (Related: The New Guard of Social Media)
The Sad Hour
Well this is a bummer, especially with it being National Wine Day and all. More and more Americans prefer to drink in their own homes alone while watching Southern Charm and eating Sour Straws, according to a survey by the wine app Vivino. A survey of 1,526 Americans reported by Business Insider found that 61 percent of Generation X and Baby Boomer respondents would rather enjoy a glass of wine at home than at a restaurant or winery. Ok, but surely millennials are all about the socializing? Nope, they also would rather be Netflix and chillin’ with their vino. It found that 47 percent of millenials said they would rather drink wine at home. Yes, bars can be annoying when you literally have to use a foghorn to get the attention of a bartender or it’s so crowded that there’s no room to show off your dance flirting skills, but this could mean the death of happy hour. Only 3 percent of those surveyed by Vivino said a bar is their favorite place to drink wine, making bars the least popular destination for wine drinkers. Of course, this survey focused on wine drinkers so if you are cool with beer, well drinks or some disgusting sweet concoction with an umbrella in it then more room for you! (Related: What Successful People Talk About at Happy Hour)
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