The Abandoned Generation is the generation of twenty-somethings who are about to graduate or have recently graduated from college. We grew up being fed a blueprint for success: get good grades in high school to get into a good college so that you can get good grades in college and start a career. We heard this blueprint repeated over and over at home and in school. We believed in the blueprint. We graduated with degree in hand, ready to change the world, but there were no jobs. The economy collapsed. and the blueprint became irrelevant. Many of us were passionate and talented and driven, but any posting for any job yielded hundreds of applicants from multiple generations and multiple disciplines. Entry level began to mean two to four years of experience, and many employers that previously demanded bachelor's degrees began to demand master's degrees simply because they could.
