Grow up, get a life!
By Mike Daniels
Though
it’s easy for us “mid-lifers” to say to some “youngster” how easy they have it
these days compared to what “we” had to deal with, the reality is that today’s
teens and twentysomethings are have a pretty tough go
of it.
More and more “quarterlifers”
are returning to the security and comfort of home sweet home instead of growing
up and getting a life of their own.
A new book titled “Upload Experience: Quarterlife
Solutions,” written by Evergreen chiropractor and radio/TV talk show host Jason
Steinle, focuses on this particular demographic and
offers facts, figures and experiences to help better understand the challenges quarterlifers face in today’s world.
Steinle, a quarterlifer
himself, took the adage “if I only knew then what I know now” and created a
resource guide for people between the ages of 16 to 34 who are faced with
venturing out into the real world for the first time.
According to the 2000 census, 4 million people between
the ages of 25 and 34 live with their folks as reported in the Sept/Oct issue
of Psychology Today magazine. After interviewing over 350 quarterlifers,
Steinle shares that quarterlifers
feel overwhelmed with all the possible choices they have as they leave the
protection of home and achademics for the first time.
In the midst, of looking for a perfect career, making new friends, choosing a
place to live, searching for the right partner, contemplating a family and
questioning the meaning of it all, they retreat back home for the comfort of
the familiar.
Through the use of shared experience from quarterlifers and advice from experts who have been there
and done that, “Upload Experience” provides quarterlifers
with all the answers to the mysteries of life. It’s a well-designed,
informative handbook for the misguided, insecure, spoiled or underachieving
young soul available online or from the publisher, Nasoj Publications www.uploadexperience.com
To all you quarterlifers who
are thinking of dropping out of school and heading home, remember this: “The
world is your oyster so reach for the skies, realize your dreams serving
burgers and fries!” Grow up and get a life!
Mike Daniels is the vice president of the