Job No Quarterlife

Job No Quarterlife

Job No Quarterlife

According to a study done by the University of British Columbia, up to 81% of Arts students become employed in a managerial or professional capacity after graduation. While encouraging everyone to pursue their passions, the authors of the study also advised Arts students to begin their career planning during their undergraduate period, so as to avoid being completely lost and directionless upon graduation.

Despite sufficient planning and good intentions, many Arts graduates nonetheless find themselves asking “now what?” upon receiving their degree. This uncertainty, combined with the sudden economic necessity to find work and pay one’s own bills after the relative security of student loans and campus life, is one major causal factor behind the Quarter-Life Crisis.

The Quarter Life Crisis, affecting mostly twentysomethings, is gaining attention in North America as a real transpersonal phenomenon. Much of it centers around questions relating to one’s vocation: questions that tend to affect Arts and Social Science graduates more than most. The tendency to experience a Quarter-Life Crisis may be driven by English majors and musicians, creative writers and drama grads.