Your So-Called Life

As a young girl, you may have had big dreams about your life. Perhaps you thought you'd be married to Zack Morris by 22 and have your first child by 23 (after a million dollar wedding and month-long honeymoon in Maui, of course). Perhaps you thought you'd live in a Mansion, an Apartment, a Shack, or House (come on, you know you played M.A.S.H!). But now that you're approaching 30 (or are just getting over the trauma of the big 3-0), reality has set in and your facing the transition from early 20-something girl to a genuine 24-karat big girl along with all of the emotional and psychological changes that accompany it. Mortgages, careers, marriages, families, financial crises, aging parents, biological clocks - this is the real deal. You're about to be an adult, minus the air quotes. But you don't have to do it alone - "Your So-Called Life" and its two fantastic authors are here to help. With advice from nearly 30 experts, including doctors, career counselors and financial planners, as well as the authors' own candid thoughts on dealing with their own transition, the book guides women through their second bout of growing pains. The must-have advice includes: how to manage a difficult boss; how to deal with the ticking of your biological clock...if it even exists; how to deal with your feelings (and your pocket book) when you're on your way to your 8th wedding of the summer, which means 8 plane tickets, 8 dresses, 8 wedding gifts and maybe 800 times you've been asked whether you're seeing anyone special; how to throw the perfect party in your tiny, new apartment without breaking the bank; which regular check-ups you should be having (no, Wed MD does not count as your primary-care physician!); and, how to find out what the right down payment on a home is for you. Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler will help readers enter true adulthood looking and feeling good in the only way they know how-with tons of wit and wisdom. "Your So-Called Life" is the bible for all women who are beyond the quarter-life crisis but need guidance transitioning into the real world.