It might be nice to have a kid back from college for a little bit. If I didn’t think about it too much. I don’t think I even considered that when I graduated and couldn’t find a job in my field.
I kept sharing a house with a buddy and moved furniture for a year. Took a semester of a graduate level class just so my brain wouldn’t rot. Thank goodness I found a job in my profession a bit over a year out of college.
Note. My buddy also moved furniture. He dropped out of college. The moving company he started several years after I left has done real well. Last I heard he had the largest storage facility in Denver. I wouldn’t change things, but... makes you wonder!
The possibility of moving home after college never entered my mind. I do remember my first off-campus apartment: I shared a room with my roommate, just as I had done in college. You never see that now—in college or out.
My son and his friends all just got “garbage degrees”—history, communications, etc.
Three of them (son included) are renting a condo that I own. They all got jobs immediately, though not “college jobs”. I told them that if they got work, showed up on time, every day, and did a good job, they would be fine.
One young man has gotten two promotions in 6 months and is supervising a crew of 10.
My son has been given the keys to the small shop he has been working at for 6 months, and runs it in the absence of the owner.
The third was a keyholder at a retail store within 1 month of being hired, and has just moved on to a better opportunity out of retail.
None of them would have had as much incentive to get off of their butts and work at Some Job, Any Job, if they didn’t have the landlord (ME!) holding out his hand every month, and the utility bill to pay if they want the lights and the internet to stay on. I think moving home is not good, particularly for those with a bit of a “slacker” attitude.
The jury is still out if the college degrees were worth it, but there are jobs out there, at least in my area.