With summer on the upswing, New Yorkers are preparing themselves for weekends full of lazy outdoor afternoons, trips to the parks and beaches, intramural sports and hopefully some summer Fridays (crossed fingers). But the most important thing about summertime is that it’s the best season to save money since free things like outdoor concerts and street festivals pop up almost every weekend. Ah, New York in the summertime.

In my first five years of working in”the real world”, I held down five different jobs. One of these was part-time and held in conjunction with my day job. However, when friends or co-workers would ask me about job history, it would sometimes seem that I was older than I really was — because of the fact that at the ripe old age of 25, I’d already amassed a whole resume page full of relevant job titles.

It was then that I realized I was what the adults called a “job hopper”. With it’s adverse sound and generally negative connotation, I immediately jumped on defense — backing the countless responsibilities I’d been so lucky to nail down. But the fact was — and still is — that I am indeed a job hopper. And I’ve come to realize that there’s nothing wrong with that.