A quarter life crisis
In the novel Twenty Something by Iain Hollingshead, Flatmate Fred says that a quarter-life crisis is twice as bad as a midlife crisis: "It's twenty years premature. No one gives you any sympathy and you're too young and insignificant to buy a sports car and run off with your secretary."
Sometimes I think the problem was getting a job too early during the placements. I'd have been a completely different person if, after graduation, I'd had to spend a few desperate months hunting for an organisation who thinks I'm employable. At least I'd banished illusory notions like job satisfaction and got on with the business of making some money.
Sometimes I think the problem was getting a job too early during the placements. I'd have been a completely different person if, after graduation, I'd had to spend a few desperate months hunting for an organisation who thinks I'm employable. At least I'd banished illusory notions like job satisfaction and got on with the business of making some money.
