In response to this unbelievable NYT article about why 20-somethings "aren’t growing up",
"Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?" asks the article. Here’s one jewel of a sentence:
Others reach the milestones completely out of order, advancing professionally before committing to a monogamous relationship, having children young and marrying later, leaving school to go to work and returning to school long after becoming financially secure.
Perhaps the article (or, rather, its author) is attempting to be progressive and hip by just glossing over the horrendous state of the economy in general and the job market specifically, as regards these exotic twenty-somethings who, all of a sudden, aren’t buying houses and having kids in droves.
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Case in point: My first job out of college was at a Staples Copy Center. And it took me six months to get that job. Six months of sending out resumes and cover letters and not even an interview. I’d just spent four years getting an Ivy League degree (with distinction in my major in addition to experience abroad), and I was now a proud Sales Associate at a Staples Copy Center.
What he said.
Pure and simple reason I think they “aren’t growing up?” Their parents never grew up.