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Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

#10 Best of Both Worlds

Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

Megan Tan

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the season finale find out what happens when you are forced to choose between a 9-to-5 job and being your own boss.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Recently I'm a millennial.

0:02.0

We're sorry to inform you that you have not been selected for an NPR Crock Fellowship this year.

0:07.0

I get rejected from the Crock Fellowship, a dream opportunity with National Public Radio.

0:13.0

But I bounce back.

0:19.0

Because this is the day that I've been waiting for.

0:25.0

Walking to local.

0:28.0

I'm about ready to give them my spiel.

0:31.0

Up until this point, I had been working at the restaurant for almost a year and I walk in with my

0:37.5

microphone and my big headphones and I go over to my managers and I tell them.

0:42.2

Hey ladies and I go over to my managers and I tell them.

0:43.0

Hey ladies, I am early and I'm bombarding you with all my recording equipment

0:50.0

because I have some news for you.

0:52.0

I don't know, is Hill Aviv here?

0:54.0

Yeah, she's here.

0:55.0

Okay, you can't hear it, but my manager just asked me,

0:59.0

are you quitting?

1:00.0

The answer was yes. I had put in my notice and I had thrown away my server shoes because I was starting the next chapter of my life.

1:10.0

You're listening to millennial, a podcast about maneuvering your 20s captured in real time, and

1:19.4

this is the last episode of season one. I know. I didn't tell a lot of people and I didn't even tell my

1:25.8

mom until recently, but this is the last episode because we are about to springboard into a new chapter.

1:33.0

Hi, this is Megan.

1:37.0

Is this Maureen?

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