A Coming of Age Story
You choose the ending
4 min readMar 26, 2022
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…