If you're reading this then my guess is that you are either a parent of a twenty something, or you are a twenty something wishing your parents could or would understand what you're going through as you navigate through the muck and confusion of deciding what route to take to get and have a life. If you're a parent then you know that the relatively straight and narrow path of job stability and consistency that your parents may have known was replaced, at the beginning of the 1990's, by the notion of every man and woman for him/her self, serial job-career moves, little employer and employee loyalty, lay-offs, etc.   Some of us still pine for those old days, and may silently still expect things to be the way we saw things for our parents. Those days are gone

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