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It’s Not About You
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BAD – LEAD – LIMIT – MARCH – MAY – MEAN – QUICK RAISE –
SPECIAL – STRUCTURE – TUTOR – WANDER
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Over the past few weeks, America’s colleges have sent another class of graduates off into the world.
But, this year, one is conscious of the many ways in which this year’s graduating class has been ill served by their elders. They enter a bad job market.
More important, this year’s graduates are members of the most supervised generation in American history. Through their whole life, they and coached to an unprecedented degree.
Yet upon graduation they will enter a world that is unprecedentedly wide open and . Most of them will not get married, buy a home and have kids, as previous generations did. Instead, they will confront amazingly diverse job markets and social landscapes. Most will spend a decade from job to job and clique to clique, searching for a role.
College students in an environment that demands one set of navigational skills, and they are then cast out into a different environment requiring a different set of skills, which they have to figure out on their own. of all, they are sent off into this world with the whole baby-boomer theology ringing in their ears. Many graduates are told to: Follow your passion, to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself. This is the litany of expressive individualism, which is still the dominant note in American culture.
But, of course, all this on nearly every front.
College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of possibilities. But this talk is of no help to the central business of adulthood, finding serious things to tie yourself down to.
