Telling Your AC to Grow Up

[Anonymous]

Explain how she owns her own NYC apartment. Let's start with that, Dad.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people don't like their first job. I'd encourage her to apply to jobs she thinks she'll like better. It's easier to get a job while you have a job, so she shouldn't quit, but it's totally fair to start applying.

[Anonymous]

I’m nostalgic for the early 2000s, when I was a UVA grad three years out of school, living in Brooklyn, happily working a crappy job and paying rent for an even crappier apartment. Life was so sweet and simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2022 grad would love to be in your daughter’s shoes. Instead she’s working for half that in a boring job and living in her childhood bedroom because she can’t afford to move out. I think your daughter needs some perspective.

I would not be so hard on OP's daughter because everyone situation is different.

My DS recently graduated from UVA, and he is still looking for work. He does not have student loans or any debt, so he can afford to spend his time looking for the right job while living at home. When he is not looking for jobs (he spends six hours M-F jobs searching), he goes to the gym, plays tennis, golf, and works on his social skills. He has a few upcoming job interview referrals from people he met on the golf course, and he is very excited about them. Hopefully, it will work out in the end. FWIW, he is very grateful that he can live at home with supporting parents while he is looking for work.