A Coming of Age Story

You choose the ending

Photo by Nickolas Nikolic on Unsplash

Life in my parents’ generation — in the 50s and 60s — was a pretty straight shot. It consisted of school, work, marriage, kids, retirement and old age. Today our trajectory is anything but straightforward.

Take millennials; they live longer with their parents (I still have one at home), have more education but less job security, postpone marriage and children, and…