Eileen Rivera’s Blog

How do you define œAdult????

I have four daughters their ages are 23, 25, 27 and 29.

They have grown up with Google, cell phones, gps,
and dvr™s.

This is the generation that can share a photo with 1000™s of œfriends in just 2 key strokes, pay bills from their phones and can learn a foreign language while driving an electric car.  

Why is it then that so many 20 somethings are resisting œgrowing up? Young adults in their 20s go through an average of seven jobs, move back home with alarming frequency and marry later than ever. The New York Times Magazine looks at the “changing timetable for adulthood” in a major cover story (8.22.10).Our information-based economy demands more education, but offers fewer entry-level jobs, even for the educated. Premarital sex and cohabitation is no longer taboo, slowing the rush to marry. And young women feel less pressure to have babies, thanks to expanded career options and advances in reproductive technology.

What does this mean to baby boomers who have little time between the kids moving out and their elderly parents moving in?

How about college grads? Do we have more or less?

Will these young people be happier in their mid-life or will they wander through their lives without direction.  

There is always going to be an exception; I recently sold a home to a young newlywed couple, both college grads, she a newly minted C.P.A. and he a 1^st year law student.

They toured properties on-line, knew what they wanted, knew what they could afford,
appreciated the ability to ask and get answers to their questions via email and text and enjoyed sharing house photos with their family and friends on Facebook.

Ten years ago I resisted technology in my business today I embrace it and I actually
have a lot of fun speaking the language with this young generation of first time buyers.

Their energy is infectious!

How do you define œAdult????

I have four daughters their ages are 23, 25, 27 and 29.

They have grown up with Google, cell phones, gps,
and dvr™s.

This is the generation that can share a photo with 1000™s of œfriends in just 2 key strokes, pay bills from their phones and can learn a foreign language while driving an electric car.  

Why is it then that so many 20 somethings are resisting œgrowing up? Young adults in their 20s go through an average of seven jobs, move back home with alarming frequency and marry later than ever. The New York Times Magazine looks at the “changing timetable for adulthood” in a major cover story (8.22.10).Our information-based economy demands more education, but offers fewer entry-level jobs, even for the educated. Premarital sex and cohabitation is no longer taboo, slowing the rush to marry. And young women feel less pressure to have babies, thanks to expanded career options and advances in reproductive technology.

What does this mean to baby boomers who have little time between the kids moving out and their elderly parents moving in?

How about college grads? Do we have more or less?

Will these young people be happier in their mid-life or will they wander through their lives without direction.  

There is always going to be an exception; I recently sold a home to a young newlywed couple, both college grads, she a newly minted C.P.A. and he a 1^st year law student.

They toured properties on-line, knew what they wanted, knew what they could afford,
appreciated the ability to ask and get answers to their questions via email and text and enjoyed sharing house photos with their family and friends on Facebook.

Ten years ago I resisted technology in my business today I embrace it and I actually
have a lot of fun speaking the language with this young generation of first time buyers.

Their energy is infectious!