- Graduate from some sort of college (bright eyed and full of it)
- Move to THE big city ($$$)
- Accept the first job that’ll cover rent
- Lose all friends to different big cities
- Sign up for every dating app available
- Insert Happy Hour as new 3rd meal of the day
- Allow dating & drinking debt to become higher than school debt
- Move back in with parents because of said debt
- Quit job … because, between the long bus ride and your horrible boss, you hate it … And you just read an article that said you should quit any job that you hate
- Gain 25 pounds (screw you freshman 15 … am I right?!)
- List of hobbies include: Netflix
- Get a job at Starbucks
- Take bartending class
- Quit job … again …
- Tell the world you’re deleting Facebook because you want to have real and authentic relationships. When in all reality it’s because Facebook has become an anxiety filled feed of comparison and regret.
- Travel to exotic and exciting places with no sense of what’s next and no money in the bank
- Publish a blog and write in it like it’s the new “Livejournal”
- Change hair multiple times and/or get multiple tattoos
- Realize you are in love with hiking and talk about it constantly
- Get a dog. Name it Frank. Good girl, Frank.
- Talk about moving to various obscure towns because this one is getting “too crowded”
- Learn how to adult
- Commence complaining about how hard adulting really is
- Settle for mediocre job that’s supposedly in your field … rejoin Facebook so you actually have something to do all day
- Realize no one is as happy or as successful as they seem, and become content tackling your dreams one day at a time … Good job, you.
Author: Karen Kirsch
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Author Bio: Karen is an educator by day and a creator by night. She loves to cook, and hike, and attempting to figure out this whole adulting through writing and late nights.
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