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Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
2.88 AVERAGE
23 reviews for:
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
2.88 AVERAGE
This book won't necessarily change your life, but I was interested in the case-study-like structure of the book and reading about the different challenges post-undergrads faced and how they faced them upon graduating. Not everyone will relate to this book or the stories included, but I do think the authors were able to include a fair amount of variety in the interviewees they chose. It would be nice to read an updated version, however, since most of the subjects graduated from university over a decade ago. However, overall I found this book to be a quick, comforting read right after graduation. It can help you feel a bit more sane in the post-undergrad deluge of job hunting, student loan repayment, moving, romantic relationships, changing friendships, and the attempt to discover what you value and want to achieve in your life.
I got to page 72, I put the book down and now I cannot find the strength to ever pick it up again. If someone were to summarize the findings maybe I'd read that, but in trying to muddle through this I feel as though my 20's are slipping even further away. I'd rather enjoy my time than try to read about other people figuring out their time. I'll be giving this book away.
I wonder what I would have made of this book if I had read it the year it was published, 2001, the year I graduated from high school and started college. Would I have found anything of interest, any insight that may have altered my later decisions? As it was, I had not heard of Robbins and Wilner's writing on the "Quarterlife Crisis" nor had I encountered the term. I had no way of knowing how much just a few years later I would find myself in the midst of exactly what the book describes. Becoming interested in this "phenomena" I thought I should take a look at the first text to describe it, written ten years ago. I found it to be thought provoking, if flawed, first articulation of growing identity crisis for people in their 20s.
In first describing and discussing a growing frustrations among 20 somethings that came to be a much debated in pop culture, Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner were among the first to put a name to the crisis. While the book is more than a little dated, I did enjoy reading about how similar feelings to me own were common even a decade ago, and that such concerns may very well have become standard for many people at this stage of life. In fact, they have only grown after the tumultuous years since 2001. Discussing feelings of failure, doubt, and inadequacy in careers, education, relationships, and other problems The information they rely upon, though, is mostly anecdotal, compiling the experiences and thoughts of many 20 somethings to illustrate their arguments, which, if nothing else, comfort the reader with the knowledge that they are by no means alone in their fears. Because of this, Robbins and Wilner succeed in crafting a definition of the quarterlife crisis that continues to today. However, aside from defining it, they do little to discuss the cultural and psychological issues of this growing problem, let alone discussing actual advice for those in the throws of it. Perhaps, just showing that challenge exists is a good start.
In first describing and discussing a growing frustrations among 20 somethings that came to be a much debated in pop culture, Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner were among the first to put a name to the crisis. While the book is more than a little dated, I did enjoy reading about how similar feelings to me own were common even a decade ago, and that such concerns may very well have become standard for many people at this stage of life. In fact, they have only grown after the tumultuous years since 2001. Discussing feelings of failure, doubt, and inadequacy in careers, education, relationships, and other problems The information they rely upon, though, is mostly anecdotal, compiling the experiences and thoughts of many 20 somethings to illustrate their arguments, which, if nothing else, comfort the reader with the knowledge that they are by no means alone in their fears. Because of this, Robbins and Wilner succeed in crafting a definition of the quarterlife crisis that continues to today. However, aside from defining it, they do little to discuss the cultural and psychological issues of this growing problem, let alone discussing actual advice for those in the throws of it. Perhaps, just showing that challenge exists is a good start.