Current mood:

annoyed

generation Y (me)
It seems with every passing day and with every friend I talk to that there's a growing pattern among us all.

There are a few options to the pattern... but it follows a mostly typical pattern.


(1) Have a wonderful college experience with tons of friends, lots to do and lots of booze.

2 (a)Pick up and move where the job is. Anywhere in the U.S. where the employers are biting.

2 (b) Go to grad school/law school/med school. Anywhere in the U.S. where the admissions staffs are biting.

2 (c) Get engaged / married at the ripe old age of 22 or 23. And prepare for a lifelong committment along with other coming changes. (Step 3 thus possibly not applicable)

3(a) Completely start over in a new city with a sigificantly reduced social life, job (school) that you don't necessarily dislike nor love, watch the months fly by with little to show for it.

3 (b) Follow or travel with a significant other to said random destination. have a significantly reduced social life, job (school) that you don't necessarily dislike nor love, watch the months fly by with little to show for it, but at least you've got someone/something you're connected to. Even if it further reduces your already significantly reduced social life.


Notice the badness? When does this bullshit end? Is this a journalism thing or is this just a life thing? Did I miss the memo on how to move on after college and did everyone else I know do the same? WTF.

Looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. Or something really. Anything at this point. Other than the gin and tonic waiting to be made later ... and the knock-off Triscuits waiting to be eaten in the cabinet.