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Summary: More twentysomthings NEED to read this book
Review: What an amazing observation. Being 20'something is a little more difficult than everyone realizes. I know it doesn't seem amazing, but once you've read this you will realize. I've been on medication for depression for the past 4 years (the begining of my 20something stage) and after reading this book I was compelled to see a therapist and try to figure out what was making me depressed and how to cope with it. Once I got a grasp on things and realized that it is OKAY to be confused about what you want to do, where you want to go with life and that NOT everything works out like you planned, I felt a million times better. I am in no way stating that this book can be used to replace much needed medication for serious conditions but it has helped me gain control over my thoughts and ideas on being 20something. I don't know how to get in touch with these writers but they deserve a big thanks from every 20something person. The ideas in this book aren't brain surgery nor did the writers venture out and do anything Noble Prize winning but what they did do is give hope to this generation. Hope that you aren't a failure just because you aren't where you'd thought you'd be or you are where you thought you'd be but you just hate it.
I graduated and headed right into my career field of choice, I excelled and ended up where I wanted to be TOO many years ahead of time. I can't figure out why I'm miserable, why I don't seem happy, why I don't want to stay at any job longer than 6 months. After reading this book I realized that I was no longer challanged, my life-long goal was there and it wasn't all I had hoped. So, I still don't know what I'm going to do, nor do I have any idea how to get there, at least I know it is normal and others are going through the same thing. PLEASE read this, even if you are exactly where you want to be in life, it will help in the long run or you may find useful advice to give to a friend in their 20somethings!! Or it might even be useful for the next time someone from our older generation tells you how AWESOME and CAREFREE your 20something years are SUPPOSED to be. Give them this book, tell them to read it and then try to tell you that having a career, paying bills, starting out on your own, having and developing your personal and professional relationships all with no experience or assistance is AWESOME and CAREFREE.
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Summary: Great for us in our mid twenties that need to identify
Review: When I bought this book, the 50+ year old clerk...had the nerve to look down at me and say "How on Earth could a person in their 20s feel they are in a crisis?"I said, "are you serious? In this day and age, you have to have a degree to work in a library, undergrads don't mean much in this world. Some of us don't have the money to go back and get graduate degrees. PLus, all of our friends and family generally live in many different states and we dont' have enough money to call/visit all the time, and it is very difficult to find other mid twenties people to be friends with to form a support ring, and it is LONELY!" She just looked at me in disbelief and said, "this is the prime of your life, don't worry, just enjoy it." Enjoy it? Ya, I am going to enjoy living pay check to pay check while I work at some lame job that SORT OF has to do with my schooling, while I am paying off my school debt...my rent, my car, and wondering how I can achieve my dreams without money. And I'll really enjoy having no friends because they are all scattered across the country,and I have no time to meet people because I work 2 jobs, and my family doesn't "get" why I am so miserable. I have always refered to this time in my life as my "mid twenties" crisis. Everyone I know that is my age is in the same thing unless they majored in Business or Computer related things and got a dream job right out of college. The rest of us are floating around aimlessly trying to find a niche. An undergrad degree is worthless most of the time, and so we end up in dead end jobs we aren't happy in. We question our dreams, we wonder if we are settling or giving up, or if we should still carry out our dreams, or just let them be "dreams". It is hard to decifer whether or not reality is "giving up" or reality is just plain reality. Then again, you hear about people like Mozart, and Brittney Spears, and Jessie Jackson and other people in this world that acheive their "impossible" dreams... you wonder if it is blind luck on their part, or they just did something we haven't figured out yet. This book is great to identify with if you are in a similar position, and it is good to know there are SO many others in the same situation. They give a website too for a support group...which is useful. The authors are not therapists, they don't do a lot of "here is what to do about it", but they do tell a lot of stories about others in our situation, and point the problem out to society so these OLDER people DON'T look like I am crazy when we talk about it!!!
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Summary: Go talk to your friends instead...
Review: Yawn. Tell me something i don't already know. Reads like a college thesis -- thesis statement, conclusion, and 180 pages of supporting quotes in between. Let me save you some time: the twenties can be a challenging time because of the amount of major life changes post college. Yadda yadda. Doesn't tell you what to DO about it.
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