Their dating lives may be a bit of a mess. They’re sleeping with exes and bosses and waking up in weird places and missing work to go yachting with a random man they just met. Okay. That’s fine. You don’t make them feel bad for those choices. But they make you feel bad for having a stable relationship. They tell you you’re becoming boring or old and say things like, “Oh good for you—no STD scares in years—how responsible.” Wait…what did you do wrong?

Finding new reasons to go back to school, over and over again, is often a sign of failure to launch. School gives you an excuse to put life on pause. You get stuck in the learning phase and never move onto the doing phase. Here’s something somebody needs to tell students today: most of what you’ll need to learn about your career you cannot learn in school. You have to learn it in the field. There are career lessons a book and a professor cannot teach you.

What does it mean to be an adult? Does it mean turning 18? For a girl, does it mean getting that first period? Maybe it means finally leaving the parent’s nest and setting out on one’s own. Or does it mean turning 21, when you can finally legally have that first drink? Society has created […]