What is next?

All right, so we received our degrees, most of us our married or pursuing a higher education or both, and some of us are reproducing so that someone else will be thinking this in a quarter of a century. My question is, now what? I mean seriously I have been in school since I was six always knowing I would get married and move somewhere and start a life. Always looking forward to that fine day when my life would finally start. Thinking how great it would be once I had a fresh start somewhere where no one knew me it was just me and my wife against the world and we would make it happen and everything would be so beautiful.

What the hell was I thinking? No where in that dream was the house market so flooded with over priced homes which combined with my ACU experience (that’s what I am calling my student loan payments) is virtually imposable. No where in that dream was rent so unaffordable that it would be cheaper to get a mortgage than it would to rent a place. So we will live at my parents house, with my family until something presents itself. It is not horrible, but it is a far cry from having a place of my own that is for sure especially when Al’s school is two and a half hours away. That is like living in Ft. worth and going to ACU.

Ok. I will pretend that we had our own place and my entry level pay was not making a budget impossible. Lets say like many of you things were working out pretty smoothly. What now. I have worked so long, I would say hard but lets be honest we just waited it out till it was time to get a diploma. It is not like it was a big challenge. It was like everything else just paying dues.

But now what?

What do you do after sitting at the office all day and you get home and it is dark? Watch television? I waited twenty five years to watch television. Who do you hang out with? Everyone has kids. You can only spend so much time with people with kids because their social lives have been put on hold for a long time. If you don’t do that it’s the same bar scene as before, which was not all that appealing in the first place. It is just a different age group and drinks are more expensive.

I think I have been waiting so long for something to happen now that it has I don’t know what to do?

I think I am having a third life crisis.