In order to understand whether people are really suffering from QLCs we decided to launch our own poll via SurveyMonkey.
The topic of QLC has been popping up all over the place these last few weeks. As mentioned in our earlier post it’s showing up everywhere. From the Guardian to Buzzfeed, everyone is going on about it. But it’s all well and good reading about it, but the big question is – are people really suffering from it? In a quest to find out, we conducted a QLC related poll.
Out of our 43 respondents we discovered some rather interesting things, such as the fact that over 80% of respondents have had financial worries at some point over their life. Whilst financial worries are only a minor component in what can cause someone to have a QLC our statistics show some interesting finds, but rather than going on about it how about we let you look at it yourself?
As you can see, most of our respondents fall into the age group that encompasses QLC (18-30), with one anomaly.
Most of our respondents have been to University (over 70%).
Whilst only 46.51% of respondents are in employment, uh oh…
With two thirds of respondents saying that they have been worried about finding a job after finishing education.
Over 80% of respondents feel the struggling UK economy is playing a part in their struggle to find employment.
A surprising number of respondents claim to have suffered from a QLC at some point in their life, with one respondent who chose ‘Other’ stating ‘I am having a crisis, but I don’t want to put a label on it such as Quarter Life Crisis’.
But what does it all mean?
Whilst our survey was taken by a small number of people it does show that QLC is a real thing affecting real people, and that it isn’t just media hysteria or a new term coined by psychiatrists to allow people to feel a bit better about themselves. We’ve also discovered that three main problems arise during young people’s lives – trying to become financially self sufficient, trying to find suitable housing and trying to find a job after finishing education. We can also take away from our survey that regardless of your education level people will suffer from a crisis in one form or another. So the best thing to do is just keep going and hope that things will turn out alright in the end as unfortunately there’s not a great deal else you can do. Especially in a time of austerity and a shrinking job market. So good luck guys, and keep safe.
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