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Sun 05 Apr 2009 – 21.15

Quarterlife Crisis

This week, I was quoted in an article in Toronto’s Eye Weekly about what’s it’s like to go through the quarterlife crisis. Somehow, it seems that after our nearly-hour-long conversation, the writer extracted an awkwardly worded quote about how education is a lie and how finding a job stinks.

Among the implicit promises made to this generation of twentysomethings was that they would have work that was engaging and creatively fulfilling. A 27-year-old freelance graphic designer with a graduate degree who is struggling to find work, Prescott says “You could always say the whole premise of education is that if you study, get good grades, acquire skills, you will have more options in a ‘career and life’ point of view. If you get a degree, you don’t have to work in a factory or have to work in a farm. That’s proving to be a huge lie, because you have people coming out of school and there are just no jobs, especially in ‘middle-class’ fields.”

Ugh, did I really say that? I think you can distill the sentiment from that jumble. And no, I don’t really use those ‘inverted commas’ in every sentence. Good thing they didn’t use my last name…

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posted by Scott in careers,education,life.