After Graduation, Twentysomethings Face More Than Just Practical Challenges

Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide

Graduating college students expect to feel a lot of things after they’ve received their degree—relief, pride, exhilaration—but one emotion they may not have been counting on is depression.

The truth is that some graduates will experience what author (and twentysomething) Marcos Salazar calls the “post-college blues” before the summer is over — and who can blame them? As Salazar points out, so much of their life has changed at once that it’s hard for them to feel settled. They have gone from the regimented collegiate life to trying to find a job and a place to live in “the real world”, a cold place without the cushion of federal or parental financial aid. And then there is that first student loan bill…

In The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide, Salazar provides a psychological road map to help recent college graduates figure out who they are and what they want from their lives during this always-challenging stage of life.

About Marcos Salazar

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