The timing has been bad before. Those of us in our mid-40s who were privileged to go to college “on schedule” graduated into the Dotcom bust, and had our new jo

The timing has been bad before. Those of us in our mid-40s who were privileged to go to college “on schedule” graduated into the Dotcom bust, and had our new jobs snatched away or searched for months for boring government contracting jobs so we could make our student loan payments. And we had it easy compared to the cohort now in their late 30s who graduated into the Great Recession. Remember that you only hear about the phenomenal successes, not the folks putting in a good day’s tech work at a non-tech company for a pretty good paycheck that will never make them fabulously wealthy, then going home to their families and hobbies. We’re too boring to talk about.