Review: 20something - The Ultimate Survival Guide
20something - The Ultimate Survival Guide
by Hannah Adcock
20something is a self-help guide to surviving life post-graduation - the ups, downs and disappointments it can bring. The twenty-something author writes of her own post-grad experience, with a little help from her friends.
The book should come with certificate PF for "post fresher", as reading of the debt, loss of self worth and even more work after three to five years of toil, Tony Blair's dream of "university education for all" would crash through the floor faster than the excuses for the war in Iraq – not that I believe he lied....
A genuine attempt to help those still floundering in post-uni blues, it lays out all of the available options in a precise and simplistic manner. Each chapter is hilariously annotated with the sarcastic tone of the author in the individual title and introduction along with a witty cartoon of you and a fellow graduate (if you care to be personal with this) as seen on the front cover.
More importantly, the nitty gritty, the information provided, is basic but helpful with good and bad perspectives for all of the ideas given. The book does become repetitive and couldn't be described as enthralling, however the addresses and websites given provide you an insight you may otherwise not have gained. The information would be most helpful about a year before graduation to help you get your head around your options to begin applying, but one HUGE tip reiterated throughout - work experience, especially unpaid - is an option it's unlikely you'll be able to avoid.
The £10 needed in order to purchase this guide to the future could be a problem when beer/clothes/rent money are more important and individualism has been drummed into students' heads since year 10. A really interesting and helpful book, yet having read my options and been made to think past this Christmas towards the rest of my life I think I'll be passive and leave my future to fate...
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