What's Next?

Young adults face a heavy set of expectations by the time they graduate high school. In fact, every generation experiences a great deal of pressure from the one before. Those expectations, those pressures, can and usually do generate a variety of positives, negatives, and overall confusing thoughts, emotions, and reactions.What if you're a dreamer? Let's take it a step further -- what if you're a dreamer, you've put in the work to get really good at what you do, you've done all the right things, and you enter young adulthood believing it's all going to work out as planned? Then it doesn't."What's Next?" is a how-to playbook for young adults who find themselves confused, disappointed, or unsure of how to navigate what everyone told them is the "real world." David Ford lived it. It's a gritty and relatable play-by-play highlight and lowlight reel of his experiences as a young adult who embraced the expectations and pressures that came at him, but when things didn't go as he planned ... he had to figure it out. Read more