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Excerpts from "Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived", by Alexandra Robbins
After speaking to thousands of twentysomethings in the past few years, I've found that the people who get through their Quarterlife Crisis quickly and relatively painlessly all have one thing in common: their attitude. They haven't placed some matrix of age-related deadlines over their lives. Instead, they view their 20s like a journey. These are the people who, instead of saying, "I'm going to be a lawyer by the time I'm 26," will take a step back from their lives, maybe to work in another country or take a nonchallenging job while they think things through, really just taking some time off from the fast-track path that too many of us are intent on catapulting toward immediately after school. These are the people who understand that there's no rush. (Robbins pp. 44-45)
No experience is a waste, unless you refuse to learn something from it. Learning what you don't want to do at least narrows down the multitude of endless options that can seem so daunting. Figuring out what you don't like is just as important as figuring out what you do. (Robbins p. 126)
"You know you should go to graduate school when you have a plan for exactly what you want to get out of it and what you want to do after you finish. Going into graduate school without a five- to ten-year agenda is like rafting the Colorado River without a paddle." (Trey Sampson, quoted on p. 126)