I'm a Gen Zer who was unprepared for life after college. Here are 5 things I wish I knew before graduation.
In late September of last year, I found myself in tears on a soccer field at a college I had once attended, tucked in the not-always-lush hills of Los Angeles.
When I finally did get my job at Insider in October, I found out just before boarding a plane to Washington D.C. — a trip that I had organized for the sole purpose of it being my"" trip. Funded by my tutoring gig, it was meant to be a sort of reprieve from the daily stresses of job applications. I only knew what I had seen in movies, heard from my parents and grandparents, or seen in heavily-edited Instagram posts from older classmates.
But I realized my peers were lonely too. Maybe they were doing long distance with their partner; maybe their work was remote. Every single conversation I've had with friends danced around the same dominant emotion of loneliness, no matter where they were living or how cool the adventure seemed on Instagram. Have people been lonely after graduation for decades? Absolutely. But the truncated college experience is also to blame.
But as I talked to them more, I slowly found the value in making friends older than myself. They had"been there, done that" and knew the unique emotional rollercoaster that your early 20s can be. I could ask them for advice, from how they met the love of their life to how they took on the city when they were right out of college. I absolutely adore solo travel .
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