Lately a lot of my friends have used the phrase “quarter-life crisis” to describe how it feels to graduate college and be further away from knowing what you want to do than when you started college. The phrase started as a joke, but it seems to be something my friends are taking more seriously.

Though it seems dramatic and entitled, there isn’t a term for exactly what we’re experiencing post-college. We don’t yet have a name for this feeling. As I talked about in my post about millenials, people my age are in a unique situation. A college degree doesn’t guarantee you a career immediately after graduation. So a lot of us are finding us graduated and confused, thus the quarter-life crisis.

I’ve heard it from friends who have full-time jobs, friends who are still looking for work and even my most “put-together” friend. Maybe this comes from the fact that there aren’t any jobs out there so we have to find work in fields we don’t like. Maybe it’s because we have too many options and can’t find something to commit to.

Whatever the reason, it’s clear that no one really has a plan anymore. So what does this mean? Is my generation going to be working multiple part-time jobs our entire lives, or are we going to create new and interesting careers out of things we’re good at? I am sincerely hoping for the latter seeing as I am smack dab in the middle of my own quarter-life crisis.