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[quote=Anonymous]What does it mean to "boomerang" home? 25 years ago, when I graduated from UVA, I moved back home without a job. I spent July and August of that year backpacking around Europe (on my own dime). In September, I moved in with the parents of a college friend who lived closer to the city (and jobs) than my parents did. This friend, a phi beta kappa at UVA, had also "boomeranged" home without a job. I worked as a receptionist for 6 months before getting a job as a research assistant at a consulting firm (almost a year after graduating). My friend worked as a paralegal. After a few months with her parents, we found a 2 BR apartment in the city, which we shared with another friend. (Yep, two of us shared a BR.) A few years later, we all went to grad/law/business school, paying our own ways. Today, we are all gainfully employed members of the 5-10 percent.

Kids who come home from college and waitress or do temp work or whathaveyou during down times in the economy are nothing new, and not necessarily a crisis-- or for that matter, a sign that they went to a subpar college or performed poorly there. I actually expect that my kids will move back home after college while they look for jobs, save up for first and last month rent on an apartment, etc.[/quote]

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