By Robert Boyer
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He also believes in being true to himself, following his heart and doing what he really wants to do with his life. It concerns me that of the many gifted people that I went to school with, so few of them are actually doing what they really want to do. And so many people say to me, “You are an inspiration to me because you are doing what you want to do. You have not yet sold out and said, ‘I got a fancy degree from a liberal arts school. ’” Although Charles is 27 years old, an age when many of his peers are moving out of emerging adulthood into more settled lives, he has maintained his zeal for exploration, and he easily tolerates the instability that goes along with it.
And with my dad, I didn’t want to have a job that beat up my body. I knew I wanted to be able to grow, and I didn’t want to be broken by the time I was 40, you know. I think that’s what I took from their jobs. Although she has always had a good relationship with her parents, family life in their household has not always been easy. Rosa said her parents “almost divorced a few times” during her childhood. Her father resented her mother for working long hours and for making more money than he did; her mother complained that he drank too much.
I present some statistics on the people we interviewed, but for the most part I present excerpts from the interviews to illustrate my points. The interview approach seemed appropriate to me for exploring a period of life that had not been studied much and about which not much was known. Also, emerging adults are a diverse group in terms of their life situations, and the interview approach allows me to describe their different situations and perspectives rather than simply stating that they are “like this,” based on an overall statistical pattern.