Get It Together: Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis - Softcover

Barr, Damian

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9780340829028: Get It Together: Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340829028 ISBN 13: 9780340829028

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2004

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You're twenty-five but feel forty-five. You should be having the time of your life. But all you do is stress about your future-free job, low salary, alleged friends and non-existent partner. If your life was a movie it would go straight to video. And nobody would rent it. Researching this book Damian Barr spoke to hundreds of men and women in their twenties from all over the UK - everybody had a different story, but there were common themes. Almost everyone felt they should be doing better, earning more, living faster and looking better than they do now. Work, Housing, Money and Relationships are what we all worry, dream and talk about. The quarterlife crisis can affect any, or all, of these areas. Get It Together is structured in four parts and each part looks in depth at one such area. Is it worth doing a postgrad or working abroad? Should you buy or rent? What are the true start-up costs of your first job, and how do you negotiate pay? Is the person you first started going out with as a fresher still right for you? Are you still right for them? Is the answer non-monogamy? The big question is: is the pressure to get it together making you fall apart?If so, you're in good company. If not, go away. Nobody wants to hear about how fabulous your life is.

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Review:

'Raises some extremely valid questions that probe the issues underlying the malaise affecting this generation of Thatcher's children.' -- Herald

This is a great guide to the realities of buying,renting. . .It's also a bible of sagely advice. -- the Big Issue

About the Author:

Damian Barr is twenty-seven. He has written for the Evening Standard, the Independent and the Guardian. He had been made redundant and evicted three times, struggled to find the right look and accrued dotcom style debts. He is currently the youngest columnist on The Times.

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