Viventium Celebrates Women’s History Month: J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling and the Hogwarts School of Failure and Passion From the first scribbles on a napkin in a London café to her eventual worldwide success as an author, J.K. Rowling inspired an entire generation with the magic of the H ...

The (Unofficial) Viventium Guide to Millennial Empowerment

When’s the last time you heard or read something that truly resonated with you? Sounds like a dumb question, given the sheer amount of opinions circulating on the internet. But despite how many memes you might stumble upon that make you go, “omg that’s so me,” the phenomenon happens less frequently than you’d think. So when you come across a blog or a vid ...

Digging Out of Your Inbox

Like the rest of New Jersey, New York, and the Northeast U.S., I woke up this morning to a foot of snow* covering everything in sight (*rough estimate: I am not going outside to actually measure it). All I kept hearing about yesterday was how the snow was going to accumulate one or two inches every hour, piling up and keeping us all trapped inside. And I guarantee no one want ...

Cover Letter from a Millennial: Talent and Potential

I am that recent college graduate with semi-messy hair who has worn a tie as many times as there are Harry Potter movies that exist. I am that chef whose famous (and only) cuisine is an egg sandwich with ketchup. I am that cartographer who is an expert at navigating any road to any part of the country – with the strict condition that his cell phone’s GPS does the navigating f ...

Mercenaries and FOMO: The Problem with the War for Talent

If you’re in the business world, you’ve probably heard of the phrase, “the war for talent.” As a quick refresher, for those of you who might not be on the front lines of recruiting, the war for talent is a term that was coined in the late 90s as a description of the ...

Out of Context

The first time you see your colleagues outside of work is always weird, I think. It’s like when you were in elementary school and solidly believed that your teacher literally lived in the school until you ran into her at the grocery store with your mom. In both scenarios, it’s a case of personal and professional worlds colliding – worlds that, for the most part, we tend ...

Let’s Talk Turkey

How was your Thanksgiving? For Sabrina, Thanksgiving was the usual loud Italian family gathering – aunts, uncles, cousins all crammed around one big dining room table with a conversation at record-breaking decibel levels. For Jeff, as always, Thanksgiving was a small gathering. But this year, with a one-year-o ...

Ghost of Commutes Present

Traffic. Again. It’s 8:16 am and I’m sitting at one of the many red lights along Route 206, staring at a stick figure family on the back windshield of the SUV in front of me and thinking about how great it would be to actually get coffee pumped into my system through an IV drip. It’s about a forty-five-minute drive for me to get to wo ...

The Old Commute

Before we moved our office to Berkeley Heights, NJ, we were located in Jersey City. I’d like to take a minute to relive my old commute out loud for you… It is 8:25 am, and yes, that’s me in the driver’s seat of the beige Ford Focus about to take exit 14 off the NJ Turnpike North. I have the radio tuned to 88.3 FM because the smooth yet upbeat morning jazz always se ...

Millennials Meet the Real World

Hi, I’m Jeff. I’m funny, but she’s a better writer. Hi, I’m Sabrina. Yes, I am a better writer…and he’s not that funny. You’re entering the world of two young adults who have recently crossed that terrifyingly irreversible line from college life into the workforce. Don’t get us wrong, we love our jobs here, but it is definitely a change ...

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