Posted on 08/15/2009 4:38:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Too Young for A Midlife Crisis
By Lindsay Minnema
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Armed with a degree in political science from Northeastern University, Heidi Buchanan came to the District in June 2006 to find her dream job in public policy. What she found instead was that life after college wasn't all she had hoped it would be.
There was the job she didn't like, the new city in which she had no friends and the nostalgia she felt for the happiness of her college years. Put them all together, and what Buchanan had was a severe case of post-graduation blues.
Call it a quarter-life crisis, the 20-something version of a midlife crisis, in which sufferers struggle to establish their sense of identity and purpose. It's not a new phenomenon, but today's young people seem to experience it more acutely than the young people who came before them. And with the tumultuous economy and job market meltdown of the past year, recent grads are getting a double helping of quarter-life anxiety.
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Not only that, but their education is a joke. People today becoming adults are ill prepared for the realities of life.
Exactly!
"You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything." - Aaron Tippin.
A lot of kids don't believe in anything anymore except their cell phones. They don't believe in America. They don't believe in their culture and their history. They don't care about anything. They don't even care about freedom. They're will to trade their freedom for a government handout in a heartbeat. The liberals have taken everything away from them and given them a cell phone.
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Like, wow dude! This stuff is HARD, they didn’t teach this in school. I mean, why teach stuff that isn’t on the test? I mean, like, wow, this stuff on the test WAS NOT COVERED IN CLASS. How weird is that?
As exemplified in the article: It's not a new phenomenon, but today's young people seem to experience it more acutely than the young people who came before them. And with the tumultuous economy and job market meltdown of the past year, recent grads are getting a double helping of quarter-life anxiety.
As you say, it's called a Reality Check - and it bites the naive.
.......What she found instead was that life after college wasn’t all she had hoped it would be......
This could easily be a piece about Anita Hill. She was coddled and then showed up in Washington where there were others who put her to shame as merely semi competent. She was saved by perpetrating a fraud.
What a wuss, what? you can’t find a Clinton ti #u(k?
...and the nostalgia she felt for the happiness of her college years.
Welcome to the real world and say goodbye to academia. You’re all grown up now.
In other words, poor, poor Heidi is no longer living off her parents and now has to devote more time to work than play, so she’s sad.
This isn’t new. My brother had the same problem when he graduated from college in 1989 and was confronted by the realities of adulthood. My advice was, “This is real life now. Suck it up and don’t look back.”
” the nostalgia she felt for the happiness of her college years. “
Every college graduate has spent the last 16-20 years in an ‘education’ system that bombards him/her with the message of ‘entitlement’ to everything from ‘self-esteem’ (whatever that is) to instant success and wealth... Competition and effort are discouraged - even vilified....
That’s pretty strong conditioning that has to be de-programmed in order to earn success and happiness out here in the adult world.....
No, saddled with wasted student loans.
The very term "politcal science" is grating and offensive. And you know what types teach it.
I joined the Navy at the tender age of sixteen. Never thought of returning home, and didn’t. Worked my way through college in a one room studio apt. Graduated and got off my ass and got a job.
I have friends and relatives that have 26 year old adult children living at home, sponging off parents, and glued to the computer. College grad working parking cars parttime at a downtown hotel.
Get an F’n life, get off your ass, and go find some “hard” work.
Sheeesh!
My advice to a recently-graduated relative was similar.
"This is what the next forty years is going to be like. Get used to it, or buy lottery tickets."
More like “Political Junk Science.” I got a dual degree in History and Political Science in 1975 just to get out of College, and went and got a real job.
poor baby
bet she doesn’t even have a trust fund
If she’s 26, “one-third-life crisis” would be more accurate than “quarter-life crisis”.
Don't you mean 'Winter Holiday'?
I remember the anger my nephew displayed when he got his first pay check. He was SHOCKED, shocked, I tell you, that taxes were withheld and how high they were.
LOL!
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