Lost After Graduation

[Steve85]

Wow...this post as we are preparing to move our lost 25 yr old daughter to Norman OK because she has bills to pay and decided to quit a job she didn't like 7 months ago. She's spent the last 7 months living at home looking for a job with an ever increasing gap in employment and a Poli Sci degree. She doesn't want to go to OK, but she has no other options right now. She's not followed a single bit of our advice so while she isn't happy about going to OK, I have little sympathy at this point.

She was able to quit her job because she knew she could stay at home. Quit...instead of using the company's willingness to pay for school / training and develop new skills for a new job and direction. I think Rex and Evan are both right for the motivation reasons Lee mentioned. Just leaving with no real plan or means to support yourself can be a disaster, but at least having a starting point and leaving the comfort and security behind is what some people need to find motivation or direction or what they're made of, whatever it is they need to move forward. If she doesn't like what she's doing, she will need to develop a plan because there is no fairy to fill the refrigerator every Saturday. She needs means, but she also needs the dagger over her head. Hopefully one day she will find it in herself to reach up, grab it and wield it at life.

Now to the back porch and plan her trip to OK...she leaves tomorrow. (Unless she gets a call from another job in Richmond)