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[nilchance]

A brilliant essay by Elizabeth Bear on Generation XYZ.

We are pedestrians in a world without sidewalks, striding across traffic against the light. We are overqualified, overeducated, overworked, overstimulated, underpaid, underemployed, undervalued and underwhelmed. Our cats have their shots, but we don't have health insurance.

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[floranna.livejournal.com]

This is so true. I am going to University and I am scared shitless that I won't find a job after and during it. I want to travel, I want to live before going to University, I want to get experiences and not to worry, because I think after I go to Uni, I'll have to stop. I have to be responsible, smart, adult... I don't want that. I have always felt a bit out of my skin, I haven't felt about my age in several years. I want to be a teenager, even if it would be only for a year. I want to be a teen. I am now eighteen and I want to feel like that, not like I was 30 year old with a stick up to her ass.

Wow, that was a rant.

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

I hope you find some great experiences. And that you don't have to sacrifice that to get a job.