By Jessica C. Y. Wong
Briarpatch Magazine
July/August 2009
This recession has helped me redefine personal achievement - from the number of purchased goods I have to the intangible “goods” I have contributed to society.
Those of us in our early to mid-20s have never experienced a recession as seemingly apocalyptic as the one we are in now. We were too young to remember anything from the slump of the early 1990s; we never invested our allowances in dot-com stocks; and we have grown up surrounded by messages that the accumulation of bigger homes, fancier cars and other material luxuries is to be equated with success and happiness.
