What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore – And the run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it EXPLODE?”
—Langston Hughes
When I graduated from Yale 30 years ago, my dream job to become a foreign correspondent was well at hand. I had five job offers—from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Science News, and my hometown newspaper, the Compton Bulletin. I chose the Times and for two decades I traveled the world reporting on major news events and social issues, experiences that led me to executive positions in education and philanthropy. At my recent college reunion, so many of my classmates told similar stories of professional success early in their careers.
http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-addressing-the-global-crisis-of-youth-unemployment
