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I don’t disagree with you, but (a) there’s a whole spectrum of life outcomes between “living in your parent’s basement” and “pulling down $70k a year at age 22 in i-banking”; and (b) in this economy, it takes a long, long time to get your foot in the door, but things change a lot between the early twenties and the late twenties.</p>
<p>(My suggestion to your friends, if you feel like passing it along, is to sign up with every temp agency out there. They might get stupid jobs, like answering phones or stuffing envelopes, but some agencies will place them doing things like creating databases, and the companies will then hire on full-time. A lot of my friends got in via temp agencies and moved up pretty fast.)</p>