Quarterlife by Satya Doyle Byock; The Defining Decade by Meg Jay reviews — how to survive your twenties
Pity my generation. Today’s twentysomethings are victims like no other. We are struggling under the weight of student loans, financial illiteracy, skyrocketing housing prices, low wages, porn addiction, you name it. Any geriatric relatives who start mumbling about growing up during the Blitz or similar minor snags are simply refusing to hear our truth. They should be ignored.
That’s according to Satya Doyle Byock anyway — a 40-year-old Jungian therapist and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood. Her book, intended to support twentysomethings struggling with “adulting”, has grown out of her youthful crisis.
In her early twenties Byock was working as a project manager in Portland. It was well paid and had opportunities for progression but Byock wasn’t happy
