What are you going to when you grow up?

[Taro Toporific]

It's time to grow up -- later
USA TODAY / 9/30/2004 12:20 AM
...Katie Foster, 22, did more than live at home after graduating in December with a psychology degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. In the future, she plans to head to graduate school. In the interim, Foster, who graduated a semester early, returned to the elementary, middle and high schools she attended, this time working as a substitute teacher.
"Since it was my 'freebie' semester, I didn't feel the need to have a 'real job,' " she said of her life as a sub from Nabari, Japan. She's now teaching high school English for the Japanese government. ...
....David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc. "Now that they have their independence, they are going to squeeze every ounce of that sponge before they settle down."

[Caustic Saint]

....David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc. "Now that they have their independence, they are going to squeeze every ounce of that sponge before they settle down."

Which begs the question - why settle down if there's plenty of squeeze left in that sponge and your life is how you like it?

[devicenull]

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[samuraiwig]

At the risk of being pedantic she's not actually referring to her job in Japan in that comment. It seems she's talking about the time she spent working as a substitute teacher at her old schools in the States.

Having said that I'm not sure she or the people mentioned in the article would be the sort to describe the JET Programme as a 'career' move.