The thing about taking time off after college is that the economy sucks, nobody wants to hire entry level workers, and those of us with Liberal Arts educations don’t know what to do with ourselves because suddenly just having one measly B.A. isn’t good enough. I get it. I do.

But my question is a little different: what are these brats doing in the meantime? Are they working at all? Are they traveling (and if so, with what money?)? And when they get back, what will they do? They’ll still be where they were–college educated without applicable business skills. We’ve been coddled so much (note I do say “we”) we aren’t really grown up–sure we’re married, we might not even have moved back in with our parents, but career wise, we were supposed to be able to do anything we wanted. It’s come as a shock that we can’t.

So, naturally, we do what everyone has always done: we blame the older crowd for tanking the economy and not wanting to deal with us. And yes, we are young, and old people scare us–old skin, old hair, old attitudes that you should work more than 40 hours a week. We don’t want to be like the older generations, but we haven’t found our own groove yet either.