The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide: Figuring Out Who You Are, What You Want, and Where You're Going After College

by Marcos Salazar

You've graduated from college. Now what? It's a question that everyone in your position has to answer. But as soon as you ask it, that one question can lead to countless Who am I? Where am I going? What are my passions in life? Am I making the right decisions? Why is it so difficult to meet people? Will I ever find a job that I love? Will I ever truly be happy? And once you think you've found the answers, you still have to do--something. Your academic education has prepared you for practical tasks like finding a job or a place to live, but many of the challenges you'll face after college require a different set of skills that are psychological in nature. This book can help you develop these skills by putting the most cutting-edge psychological research at your fingertips to help you overcome the obstacles you'll face throughout this trying and exciting time in your life. The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide is your roadmap The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide is truly a remarkable and much needed guide to life after college. It will help young people deal with the psychological challenges that arise upon graduation from college. A must read!
-Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D., ABPP, dean and professor of psychology at the University of Akron and coeditor of A New Psychology of Men

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

216 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2006

Reviews

[Mackenzie]

This book has put words to my feeling of a quarterlife crisis. In college we are able to project the vision of who we want to become in the world. During the four years, we develop an identity with the confidence and capabilities to handle most situations within the ISOLATED environment we are in. Theres no class that teaches us to balance self efficacy and self respect to build our self esteem.

Self-efficacy: confidence you have in your capacity to be effective & successful in the various areas of your life
Self-respect: seeing yourself as worthy of living life for your own sake, & feeling that you have the right to be successful & happy

[Aleksandra]

Read this right after college ended! Some very good points about life and love and finding your way.

[apwebb83]

There is a wealth of useful wisdom here. It is like a fountain of clean water. However, I have three horses living in my own house that I can not make drink from it... not even crack it open to take a sip. Whoa! I have three fountains here because I bought three copies! So I am taking some of the advice and trying to model it myself (said the little red hen). Determining what is "good enough," and not insisting on perfection, and I am a HAPPY WOMAN. I think that I will go paint in my studio now.

[Danyal Khan]

One of the best books I ever read...highly recommended to anybody who has just graduated college, working/studying as a post-grad or someone who is about to graduate. Deals with a lot of the unique issues that our generation is facing in an increasingly globalized world.

[Julia]

Exactly what I needed to read at this point in my life. Teaches tools and strategies to help with post-college uncertainty and depression.

[Liz]

great advice for anyone in their twenties or for a parent who is having a hard time relating to their 20 something kid.