The Quarter-Life Crisis: A Survival Guide for Millennials and Parents
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
After we graduate from college, we should have our lives all figured out, right? Not so much. Here’s what can go wrong and what you can do
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I never thought it would happen to me.
When I graduated from college I had a plan. I was going to work in the entertainment business and nothing was going to get in my way.
At age 22, I had already interned at Columbia Pictures and at Warner Bros Pictures. At 24, I had worked for several years at a talent agency in San Francisco and was moving to LA. At 26, I had an amazing job working for a top talent manager in Los Angeles and I was on my way to becoming a junior talent manager. At 27… I was broke, unemployed and living with my mother.
What happened to my perfect plan? A quarter-life crisis happened.
Whether you’re a young person feeling like things are not going as you had expected, or if you’re a parent of a young adult whom you fear might be going through a rough time, one thing is certain: the quarter-life crisis is real.
It may seem like having a ‘quarter-life crisis’ is a recent phenomenon — yet feeling lost and unsure of yourself as you enter adulthood is an issue that young adults have been struggling with for decades.
Let’s not forget films like , released in 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, a which is one of the defining films for Generation X also about a group of recent college graduates each trying to figure out how to navigate adulthood after school.
