Seems like a lot more people in the late 20 early 30’s still live with their parents than in the ol’days. I think it’s the new entrepreneur – ‘capitalize on unconditional love – free rent!’ It’s pretty easy to pass time with a surfboard and no rent bill!

I’m around that age… but my parents are doing just fine without me 😉

If you’re 30 now, you were just getting out of high school around 1996-1997. A perfect time to be seduced away from college for most likely a relatively cush job. I think a lot of folks were lured into jobs that require little study. Mortgage salesman, real estate agents, car salesmen, etc – things that the prosperity made very easy to get by on(there are brilliant people in those professions too). Now you have early 30 somethings that didn’t really develop their skills scratching their head in a much more competitive and lean market. You sold real estate to get by, now you’re competing with people who got into real estate in tougher times or moved into it from another trade and are far more experienced/have something to fall back on.

I have some predictions on how this job market will evolve, but that’s being saved for it’s very own website!