Stop Telling Young People to Enjoy Being Young

TC
7 min readJul 23, 2018

When I was 20, I found myself on the phone with my state’s unemployment office. One error had lead to me losing my job at a local casino.

At 20, I barely had a hundred dollars of savings. I had rent to pay and a stomach to fill. On top of that, I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. It was my first time being fired from anything, and the minutes that I spent on the phone…

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TC

Author, freelancer, & digital nomad. Wrote a book about a forbidden love in a dystopian world of pollution, corruption, and inequality. https://bit.ly/2LyDKNr