Castle of Indolence

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.