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Prism

(5,815 posts)
10. And I blame adults for this
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 05:31 PM
Sep 2013

Funny to read this post, as just this morning my boyfriend and I were having one of those early morning conversations about the future, where profundity and honesty sort of mist up from the ground in the haze of drowsy half-wakefulness.

He, a 24 year-old Japanese major three months from graduation, confessed to me his fearfulness about his future. He is afraid. He's never had a career. He knows what he would like to do, but no one around him has given him any direction on how to go about it. Why is he a Japanese major? Because it is his passion. Would I, a 34 year-old, recommend to him that course? No, I would've have tried to steer him to an area with more guaranteed income. I work. I know what it's like out there. I've re-jiggered my education from early childhood ed to nursing to, finally, accounting. Because I want to grind out a decent living that provides for my family.

No one, not parents or teachers or counselors, ever once said to him, "Hey, maybe you should do X for a living if you want a sound career." Because, "It's you're dream!" damnit. And the dream matters.

Yeah, thanks Baby Boomers. Meanwhile, in reality . . .

And, here he is. Aimless and terrified. He has no idea, because no adult anywhere thought to give him one. Oh, I have attempted it. I've made my remarks and steered him in the right areas for jobs and post-graduate assignments. But why the fuck am I the only one looking at him going, "You need to do this, this, and this, to get your post-degree life sorted." Why isn't his university or parents or anyone else at all preparing him for life?

I'll never get down on Millennials. Their parents fucked them. But hard.

That is an assholey article/cartoon. RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #1
Sweet critique Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #2
Oooooooo-k. RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #3
Also, based on some Gen Ys I've had to manage Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #4
Why wouldn't you ask that interview question of everyone? RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #15
There's no reason not to ask it of everyone Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #17
"reasons cited"? One study? And done with an obvious prejudice about the nature of an entire RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #18
Did I say the email person was youthful? Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #20
You sound like an asshole. RadiationTherapy Sep 2013 #21
And you sound like an asshole with 'roids. Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #22
I've been on a Buddhism kick lately, and closeupready Sep 2013 #5
Gen Ys' parents came of age in much easier and more prosperous times. Arugula Latte Sep 2013 #6
You didn't read the blog, did you? Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #7
Yeah, I did read it. It's concescending and judgmental towards younger people. Arugula Latte Sep 2013 #8
It does seem to upset some folks Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #9
And I blame adults for this Prism Sep 2013 #10
If you read the blog Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #11
No, I know Prism Sep 2013 #12
Another interesting thing about this blog entry is Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #13
In my experience going back for classes, this is dead-on. xfundy Sep 2013 #14
OK, so another take... antigone382 Sep 2013 #16
Nice post Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #19
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