My Quarter Life Crisis

Ah Brazen Careerist. You are great. This post on a braided career sums up my quarter life crisis of last year.
First off, I haven't really heard many other people even speak of a quarter life crisis..but that's definitely what I went through last year. While many of my Smith friends were off in Zambia, the U.K., Scotland, I came home. I was broke, and didn't want to settle for a crappy job in New York and live in a cardboard box. I, unlike so many, totally lucked out landing at Jobster and loving my job...keeping me in Seattle way longer than I originally intended. But a nod towards the quarter life crisis made me happy for a few reasons:
I have resisted so much in my life because it's 'impractical.' By no means did it leave me stuck anywhere, depressed about my decisions, but I have always been driven to get to the right school, the right internships, the right job. Now is the first time in my life I feel like I can make decisions without letting family/friends down. Wow, and that only took 24 years. I digress. So, this is great to push people to follow your loved ones. The braided career is really our generation: few of my friends will settle for a soulless job where they will lose out on life and adventure. The companies that know this get the best talent. for. sure.
Also, those decisions really create a track. My craziest decisions (Smith, Copenhagen, etc) have been my best life choices. I have met people and experienced things that I was open to because I was out looking for adventure, and not just studying at college or staying close to home.
I would also like to think the braided career gives a not to more equal relationships. It's a braided career with loved ones, not just one person following but both of you making your lives out of what was given. Did I explain that right? Let's just say the feminist movement isn't over but this is a nice nudge towards a more equal discourse of relationships. Can I write without some pop culture analysis? I've been ruined for life... :)