I’m sure you have probably heard of it, but if not you should check out the book series Quarterlife Crisis.

So i don’t see the case for the Jonas Brothers-in fact one of them is “older”-

Regarding this year’s graduates with the job market-when I graduated from college I was one of the few graduates who had a job-the 70′s were not an easy time for people graduating from college between 1970 and actually 1979. We were in Viet Nam and many of our male friends immediately went to the service after graduation from college. Granted many of my friends got married-they did not have to look for a job then. Myself-I decided to move to a ski resort as did many other college graduates that year and the next. We had jobs and were introduced to more than alcohol or multiple partners.

As females we were to be “thin” and beautiful. This idea that the generation now is plagued with weight issues and beauty. Believe me, seldom did you ever see a girl between the age of 15 and 25 on a beach that did not have a hot body in the 70′s. There was no such thing as an overweight girl and definitely nothing like I see today on the beaches.

We dressed in very high heels, very short skirts and our mothers were beyond themselves as were our fathers. We stopped wearing bras after Glamour came out with the pencil test. We wore make-up and looked just like models out of Glamour along with carrying Chanel bags. Many of us looked like we stepped right out of Glamour, Mademoiselle or “17″. There were tons of “diet” pills and we learned from our male friends who were wrestlers how to “lose weight-” By the way-this was in the mid-West in Oklahoma. Consider what it was like in S.CA., N.CA and the East Coast.

What I am getting to is this-life changes but not as much as you think. What has changed and is a real problem, a higher percentage of students using drugs and not realizing “drugs kill”-we did not know that ‘Drugs kill”-we even had doctors giving us scripts for painkillers and did not realize booze and pills don’t mix until someone passed out from it. Girls getting pregnant-nothing’s really changed. It’s just more public now and many girls want to get pregnant. What has changed is that Nancy Drew is no longer a book girls want to read and a sense of adventure is lost. I’m going to throw out a bit of trivia. Did you know that many of today’s women leaders in business and academics read Nancy Drew and loved the adventures? In closing, in the U.S. and in many European countries, women have been expected to be perfect for years-from Donna Reed to today’s teen girl idol. It has not changed and in some respects there is less pressure to be perfect and less pressure to be beautiful, thin, and have money. At least today girls are making their own money and not being pressured to marry into money or learn to be the perfect hostess so the husband gets to be a partner. By the way, I knew executive women in the mid-80′s who refused to learn how to use a computer. They did not want to give up their secretaries.