My daughter wandered solo through a large swath of Europe, came home for a festival over Labor Day, headed back to her apartment and partners in Buffalo, and found a job within a week. It's not a great job- she's a receptionist at an optometrist office, making just above minimum wage with no benefits- but it does not involve waking up at 3am and working weekends like her last two bakery jobs. (I'm hoping she keeps on looking for something better but know it's really hard to motivate oneself to do that while working.)
It is a delight to see her navigate life so well. She's not doing things the way I would but she is figuring things out and doing cool stuff despite a high baseline level of anxiety, a horrifying political landscape, a disastrous entry level economy, and less socially robust culture than we had pre-cell phones.
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