Career Starting a career is an important part of developing a life. After proceeding through college, most adults search for a job that will turn into a career. For most emerging adults, the road to a stable, long-term job is not easy. The average American holds eight different jobs between the ages of 18 and 30 (Arnett, 2016). As individuals reach young adulthood, they are forced to make decisions that will have long term effects on their adult lives. Studies have found that job satisfaction peaks in middle adulthood (Arnett, 2016). Those in middle adulthood are focusing less on the pay of the job and more on the enjoyment of the work itself. Individuals in late adulthood face one difficult decision - to retire. Based on financial considerations,
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Over the course of a year, I grew very close to a friend that I met my senior year of college through a friend. After losing touch for a while, but reconnecting through email, we slowly started to build a relationship. We ended up getting engaged, and we started to plan for a wedding and a family. We had a small wedding, and we ended up having two children, Hannah and Will. As I entered young adulthood, my spouse and I had been married for more than a decade. We started to experience marital conflict, and we started to see a counselor. Our communication grew seldom, and I started to emotionally separate from my spouse. Regardless of the conflict, my spouse and I decided to stay together. We stuck to counseling, and after two years, and a lot of hard work, we realized all was not lost. We ended up clicking back into place. Instead of divorcing, we worked through our differences and reconnected on a deeper level than ever before. Through late adulthood, my spouse and I were stronger than ever and grew old …show more content…
Emerging adults who move out tend to get along better with their parents than those who remain at home (Arnett, 2016). Transitioning into middle adulthood, relations with parents tend to be mutually supportive and dependent on how healthy the parents are. Considering my parents in the simulation fell ill, I cared for them frequently until they passed. Generally, contact with siblings in young adulthood and middle adulthood is low (Arnett, 2016). However, in the simulation, my brother went through a divorce and lost his job, so he was my longest stay in
Over the course of a year, I grew very close to a friend that I met my senior year of college through a friend. After losing touch for a while, but reconnecting through email, we slowly started to build a relationship. We ended up getting engaged, and we started to plan for a wedding and a family. We had a small wedding, and we ended up having two children, Hannah and Will. As I entered young adulthood, my spouse and I had been married for more than a decade. We started to experience marital conflict, and we started to see a counselor. Our communication grew seldom, and I started to emotionally separate from my spouse. Regardless of the conflict, my spouse and I decided to stay together. We stuck to counseling, and after two years, and a lot of hard work, we realized all was not lost. We ended up clicking back into place. Instead of divorcing, we worked through our differences and reconnected on a deeper level than ever before. Through late adulthood, my spouse and I were stronger than ever and grew old …show more content…
Emerging adults who move out tend to get along better with their parents than those who remain at home (Arnett, 2016). Transitioning into middle adulthood, relations with parents tend to be mutually supportive and dependent on how healthy the parents are. Considering my parents in the simulation fell ill, I cared for them frequently until they passed. Generally, contact with siblings in young adulthood and middle adulthood is low (Arnett, 2016). However, in the simulation, my brother went through a divorce and lost his job, so he was my longest stay in