Living at home is the new normal (or a return to the old normal), The New York Times asserts in a piece on Millennials who have returned to the nest. While the reality of financial insecure twentysomethings relying on their parents is incontestable, the fact that the NYT quotes an expert, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, as praising young adults who prefer living at home and lying in wait for the perfect career opportunity to present itself instead of settling for something less than their ideal is all manner of wrong. The truth is that the job missteps and dead ends that Millennials are trying to avoid while holing up in their childhood bedrooms are exactly the kind of experiences they should be rushing to embrace. You shouldn’t be reluctant to take a lousy job out of college, you should be ecstatic to do so. Here’s why:
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