<p>Dstark, do we really have many choices? What future is there in saying, get off the beach and go to grad school, or, I can't stand your significant other--please drop him/her? I mean, they're adults--it's their lives.</p>
<p>My D, who graduated two years ago, has not followed any "prescribed" paths. She started out living at home, working as a canvasser, saved her money, went to Brooklyn, couldn't find a "real" job so worked in Barnes and Noble p/t, decided that wasn't working, is now back canvassing, living half time in Brooklyn, half-time with her canvasser bf (whom we like a lot) in a town near us, and looking for an apt of her own in that town for when her Brooklyn lease is up. None of the jobs she has worked needed her degree. So what? It's her life, and she's supporting herself. She's also saved a ton of money, and is planning on lots of travel. She is desultorily studying for the GRE, but no timeline for actually doing something in that direction.</p>
<p>You could call it floundering, but I call it her life. And I am so pleased with the young woman she has grown into being--what that woman ends up doing, well, that's up to her--but I sure am fortunate to get to watch this story unfold!</p>