Many people in their 20s aren’t building up any of them by sitting around at home or taking dead-end jobs. Jay starts off the “work” section of the book by introducing the idea of “identity capital,” which is the collection of skills, relationships, and professional resources we build up over our lives. Many of Jay’s patients describe feeling lost in a see of optoins, not able to dedicate themselves to anything because of so many alternatives. Twentysomethings who do have paying jobs earn less than their 1970s counterparts when adjusted for inflation.”Īll of the options that we have seem to be to our detriment. About a quarter of twentysomethings are out of work and another quarter work only part-time. An unpaid internship is the new starter job.
With a contracting economy and a growing population, unemployment is at its highest in decades. Many entry-level jobs have gone overseas making it more difficult for twentysomethings to gain a foothold at home. Twentysomethings are more educated than ever before, but a smaller percentage find work after college.
“The Great Recession and its continuing aftermath have left many twentysomethings feeling naïve, even devastated. She highlights how the job market has shifted for people coming out of college: This book is meant to provide people in their 20s with some direction around creating that vision (not in a corny way) so that they’re setting themselves up better for their 30s and beyond, instead of playing catch up after derping around for 8 years. The book centers around Jay’s experience as a clinical psychologist seeing people in their 30s and 40s who are hamstrung by having a “lack of vision” in their 20s.
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