This matches with my sentiment around the topic.
A few quotes that stuck out:
Finance and consulting firms now take advantage of this craving by making job offers to some students during their sophomore year. The kids are 19 or 20. Most of them probably haven’t had time to explore the secrets of their hearts’ desires. But here comes a prestigious job offer that takes away all the uncertainty. You’ll be forced to work on PowerPoint decks through your 20s, but at least you won’t have to risk more rejection.
And:
One young woman lamented to me that she wished she’d been young in the 1990s; it would have been easier. I told her I was relatively young in the ’90s, and it was.
And:
It’s just phenomenally hard to be young right now. There must be an easier way to grow up.
“There must be an easier way to grow up.”
I think about this in my own context, as well as the kids.