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Apr 29 2008

You’re a Yuppie when …

Published by d dot b at 11:49 am under Economics, Popular Culture, Social
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You’re a Yuppie when …
Virtues: business, entrepreneurs, revolt against the system, technology

The term yuppie (short for “young urban professional” or “young upwardly-mobile professional”) refers to a market segment whose consumers are characterized as self-reliant, financially secure individualists. So this is an interesting list of some signs of a yuppie.

You know when you’re a yuppie when …

- you go to the club to do more networking than ‘picking up’

- you save gas & meal receipts so that you can file them for your income tax ‘business expenses’

- you have a smartphone w/ an accompanying over-priced data plan

- you switch from hotmail to gmail

- sleep starts to become a luxury

- T.V viewing is a luxury

- Starbucks becomes a place for business

- you’re at work, and all you can think about is the amount of work you have to do after work

- economics and financial markets are suddenly more interesting

- Social networking sites are more for networking and promoting your business than hooking up w/ old friends & finding new ones

- you stopped putting songs as your voice mail message

- you do your work @ work, while still doing your employers work

- you use a sick day not because your sick or to hook up with your partner, but to do work

- you feel guilty when you are doing nothing

- your only ‘downtime’ is during your commute

- your mind is always racing with new ideas and business ventures

- you consult your blackberry/PDA before you make time with your significant other, friends, and family

 

If you have one or multiple attributes from this list, then you may be a Young Urban Professional that is taking a detour on the trail of life that the system provides and creating your own path.

 

Go on young trailblazer, blackberry in hand.
.:: d.b

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