If half of us have less than five years of experience, you’re at least half wrong. I have a young friend who’s being forced out of her first real gig. She is not handling it well. She’s moving halfway across the country to work in an industry that I think is going to harm her emotionally.

But you can offer advice and if they don’t take it there’s nothing to can for them except be supportive. Some lessons get learned the hard way.

There are going to be a lot of young people and other folks without a nest egg freaking the fuck out even with the severance.