Education/Career

Young adults are putting more time into education and furthering their education. It is more and more common to spend more time at professional school to ensure a job which delays finding a career and puts these students into more debt. There is a secular trend of everything being delayed:


Twixters: Individuals in 20-30s age group  who have pursued some kind of education and realize they can not get into a career,  and as a result they move back home.

Is this Good or Bad? Some of the sociologists, psychologists and demographers who study the twixters actually see this new life stage as a good thing. They're not lazy slackers, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation. This new period is a chance for young people to savor the pleasures of irresponsibility, search their souls and choose their life paths. But more historically and economically minded scholars see it differently. They are worried that twixters aren't growing up because they can't. Those researchers fear that whatever cultural machinery used to turn kids into grownups has broken down, that society no longer provides young people with the moral backbone and the financial wherewithal to take their rightful places in the adult world, TIME reports

There is a gender gap in educational attainment for young U.S. adults, according to a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:

• While nearly one in four women had earned a bachelor's degree by their 23rd year, only one in seven men had done the same. 
• Women were also less likely than men at age 23 to be high-school dropouts or high-school graduates not enrolled in college.

      Career development is a long, established process of the work world by having the choice among many different employment opportunities and careers. Each individual person undertaking this process is effected by various elements, including: where they live, personal talents and educational accomplishments (Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, & Pastorelli, 2001).
      A major turning point in ones life, generally occurring in and around high school, involves the career choice made regarding their futures. Many times, it is perceived by family and society as a start to prepare for the workplace. This plays a major role in establishing youth in a career path that presents and ends opportunities. "With the differences in the social and economic context of college-bound versus work-bound adolescents (Bluestein, Phillips, Jobin-Davis, Finkelberg, & Roarke, 1997), a study was designed to explore the factors that influence rural young adults' selection of specific careers"(Ferry).